Applying Genetic Algorithms for Recommending Adequate Competitors in Mobile Game-Based Learning Environments

Krouska, Akrivi; Troussas, Christos; Sgouropoulou, Cleo

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49663-0_23

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“…In China, like most elsewhere, more and more college campuses embrace the flipped classroom pedagogical approach, which is a learning model that subverts the traditional teacher-centered class instruction into student-focused pre-class knowledge transfer via technology-mediated platforms including smartphone capabilities ( Wei et al, 2020 ). As a result, the smartphone has become an important and pivotal tool in fostering learning through entertaining, mobile gaming, and other creative modalities ( Krouska et al, 2020 ; Troussas et al, 2020 ). More than one-third of the students mentioned the various role of the smartphone in accomplishing academic and course-related tasks such as researching information, communicating about curricular activities, and reading class notes and course materials.…”

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Smartphone Use and Psychological Well-Being Among College Students in China: A Qualitative Assessment

Cheng

Tai

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Background: Problematic smartphone use is widespread, and college-age youth faces an especially high risk of its associated consequences. While a promising body of research has emerged in recent years in this area, the domination of quantitative inquiries can be fruitfully and conceptually complemented by perspectives informed through qualitative research. Toward that end, this study aimed to interrogate the myriad behavioral, attitudinal, and psychological tendencies as a side effect of college students’ engagement with the smartphone in their everyday lived experience through in-depth interviews.Methods: We recruited 70 participants from seven college campuses hailing from different geographic regions in China, and conducted semi-structured in-depth virtual interviews via WeChat in November and December 2020. Subjective experiences, personal narratives and individual perceptions in the context of routine interaction with the smartphone were thematically analyzed through a reiterative process in an effort to detect prevailing threads and recurring subthemes.Results: The smartphone has established a pervasive presence in college students’ everyday life. Time-based use characteristics generated a typology of four distinct user groups: hypo-connected antagonists, balanced majority, hyper-connected enthusiasts, and indulgent zealots. Habitual usage falls on predictable patterns matched onto temporal, locale-based and contextual cues and triggers. Students’ dependency relationships with the smartphone have both functional and emotional dimensions, as prominently manifested in occasions of detachment from the device. Self-regulatory effort in monitoring and limiting use is significantly impacted by mental focus and personal goal setting. Perspectives from our qualitative data suggest the need for taking into account a variety of contextual cues and situational factors in dissecting psychological and emotional outcomes of smartphone use and abuse.

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Smartphone Use and Psychological Well-Being Among College Students in China: A Qualitative Assessment

Cheng

Tai

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…MGbL can improve teamwork, students' learning motivation and their performance as well (Chang & Hwang, 2019). Also, MGbL has been reported as an efficient environment for students to advance their knowledge through an entertaining way according to the related literature (Krouska et al, 2020b). Quiz Time!…”

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Mobile game-based learning as a solution in COVID-19 era: Modeling the pedagogical affordance and student interactions

2021

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The closure of educational institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic leads imperatively to the utilization of technological advances and the Internet for enabling the continuity of learning. To this direction, Mobile Game-based Learning (MGbL) can be beneficial to teaching and learning; since, from technological perspective, most students prefer to use their mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablets, and from pedagogical perspective, incorporating gaming in educational process can boost students' motivation for learning and improve their learning outcomes. Hence, this study investigates learners' intention to use MGbL as an alternative educational practice during the COVID-19 pandemic, by modeling the pedagogical affordance of this technology and student interactions with it. As a testbed for this research, a MGbL application was used for the instruction of the programming language C# in higher education, during the lockdown period of 2020. The findings reveal that the MGbL technology has a significant and positive impact on student engagement and academic performance.

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“…From the citizen point of view the smart city has to be accessible and friendly to users in a natural way without feeling like technology is actual. Innovations technology became the tool for independence [27]. It would be very promising and comforting for this technology to promote growth and development.…”

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Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: A Preliminary Overview

Poli

2021

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

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Nowadays human activities are incoming at a digitalization stage. The introduction of information technology along with new forms of communication, influence a variety of forms of human action and focus mainly on the integration and the convergence of the digital and physical worlds. The use of more intelligent – electronic solutions, improves the lives of people around the world, according to studies carried out on the ingress of new smart technologies. Artificial and Ambient intelligence nowadays getting more and more attention about the development of smart, digital environments. The Smart Cities designed for All must aim to arrange the disparity in cities through smart technology, making cities both smart and accessible to a range of users regardless of their abilities or disabilities. The birth of “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) has facilitated the complex computations for reality simulation the new communication era of wireless 5G, all combined have given the hope for a new and better future, to reverse disability to empower the humans with more capabilities, to be faster than they can ever be, stronger than they can ever dream. This paper provides an overview of Ambient Intelligence and smart environments, as well as how technological advancements will benefit everyday usage by devices in common spaces such as homes or offices, and how they will interact and serve as a part of an intelligent ecosystem by bringing together resources such as networks, sensors, human-computer interfaces, pervasive computing, and so on.

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Applying Genetic Algorithms for Recommending Adequate Competitors in Mobile Game-Based Learning Environments

Cited by 20 publications

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Smartphone Use and Psychological Well-Being Among College Students in China: A Qualitative Assessment

Smartphone Use and Psychological Well-Being Among College Students in China: A Qualitative Assessment

Mobile game-based learning as a solution in COVID-19 era: Modeling the pedagogical affordance and student interactions

Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: A Preliminary Overview

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