Mobile Learning in Context â?? Context-aware Hypermedia in the Wild

Hansen, Frank Allan; Bouvin, Niels Olof

doi:10.3991/ijim.v3i1.766

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“…Based on our prior experiences with creating mobile media applications for education [17], we have learned that the focus in the application should be on the answering of assignments by producing media and not on the technical aspects of producing the media, e.g. how the camera works or how to get the materials uploaded from the phone for later use.…”

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“…Several previous projects using mobile technologies for learning purposes have been documented in the literature; some examples are AmbientWood [32], HyCon [17], [4], Chawton House [31], Contextual Media [8], uLearn [22], eBag [5], and the RAFT project [30]. For instance, Weal et al [32] describe the Ambient Wood project, which has developed a mixed reality space located in a woodland in Sussex.…”

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“…The infrastructure supports a playful learning experience where children could explore and reflect upon a physical environment that had been augmented with a variety of digital services. Another example is the HyCon project [17], [4], utilising GPS enabled mobile phones to support location-based exercises and documentation of activities on location in nature or urban settings. HyCon has been evaluated in several out-of-school projects [3].…”

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Mobile urban drama for multimedia-based out-of-school learning

Hansen

Kortbek

Grønbæk

2010

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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This paper describes the notion of Mobile Urban Drama and how a particular production is implemented to support engaging experiences via location-based mobile phone software. Mobile Urban Drama is a general concept that has been adapted for outof-school learning projects by introducing support for solving assignments and producing multimedia-based documentation for learning purposes. Media production is seamlessly supported through a context-aware media management system. The Mobile Urban Drama project, "HASLEINTERACTIVE", is presented. It supports biology, geography and math lessons for 7 th to 9 th graders in schools. The story is an environmental thriller that takes place partly on the pupils' mobile phones and partly in the real worldin nature, which must be investigated through exercises. The level of pupil engagement is evaluated through interviews with teachers and pupils, as well as an analysis of pupil productivity and produced media materials during the interactive Mobile Urban Drama experience. It is argued how the out-of-school learning features are successfully supported by the system, and we conclude that the level of productivity and engagement is higher than in usual pupil group work.

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Mobile urban drama for multimedia-based out-of-school learning

Hansen

Kortbek

Grønbæk

2010

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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“…The UCL tool is a mobile, context-aware online service to easily collect a large amount of rich contextual and emotional information from users' authentic experiences of using online services. The tool is designed to be used in the evaluation of online services for collecting information about context of use and about quality experience from a large number of users just when the online service is used [11] [12].The possibility to use the UCL tool with smart phones benefits students' learning by engaging them with realworld situations, also when observing mobile usage of online services. Only a short, 'lunch-time participation' is needed from students to collect the main information related to their quality experience in the very same context in which the online service is used.…”

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Towards More Authentic Learning in Hypermedia

Tervakari

Silius

2011

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Abstract-A major challenge in teaching hypermedia is to illustrate how varying dimensions of using context are related to user's quality experience of online services. The Urban Computing Lab (UCL) tool was developed for students to collect rich information for further analysis about quality experiences of online services in authentic situations. Meaningful learning from the real world problems in authentic contexts enhances learning of abstract and theoretical issues.Index Terms-Authentic learning, context-aware service, experience of service, quality of service. I. TEACHING CHALLENGES IN HYPERMEDIAHigh quality and an overall acceptability of online services have become more and more important for users. Smart phones and small laptops enable users to access online services and communities almost everywhere, and contexts of use of online services have become more diverse. The consideration of users' expectations in the design of online services requires an understanding that quality is perceived and experienced subjectively by the user. The quality experience of online services is a complex phenomenon affected by many diverse aspects like usability, accessibility, informational quality, user's physiological and psychological capability, user's personality as well as a situation and a context of use. There are always some permanent dimensions affecting the user's experience such as psychological and physiological traits of human beings (memory, perception, sense, basic needs) and cultural factors, but also some varying dimensions of context of use like the purpose of use, social situation, physiological environment, device used, and emotions and arousal level of user at a given moment. Because of these varying dimensions of context every case of usage is unique and offers the user an unique quality experienceOne important issue in the teaching of hypermedia is promoting and ensuring the knowledge of quality management and quality evaluation. In addition to professional and theoretical materials, cases and authentic examples are widely used in engineering education. Students cannot learn hypermedia engineering practices unless they can authentically experience those practices. One of the main challenges in teaching quality management and quality evaluation in hypermedia is to illustrate abstract and theoretical phenomena like quality experience.The Hypermedia Laboratory is responsible for the teaching of hypermedia engineering at Tampere University of Technology (TUT). Hypermedia can be studied as a major or a minor subject, and students can focus on either the technical implementation of structured information or general design and management of hypermedia projects. This paper reports a study of a teaching experiment of Hypermedia Laboratory. The aim of the study was to develop the teaching of quality management and evaluation issues in hypermedia towards more authentic learning. First theoretical background is presented. Then the Urban Computing Lab (UCL) tool, data collection and participants are described. Thi...

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Crowdsourcing Mobile Web Applications

Challiol

Firmenich

Bosetti

et al. 2013

Current Trends in Web Engineering

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Building Mobile Web or Hypermedia Applications is usually difficult since there is a myriad of issues to take into account. Moreover adding support for personalized or context-aware behaviors goes far beyond the possibilities of many kinds of organizations that intend to build this kind of software (museums, city halls, etc). In this article we present a novel approach to delegate part of the effort in building mobile Web software to developers outside those organizations or even to final users. We show that this approach is feasible, light and practical and present a set of experiments we developed to verify our claims.

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Mobile Learning in Context â?? Context-aware Hypermedia in the Wild

Cited by 17 publications

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Mobile urban drama for multimedia-based out-of-school learning

Mobile urban drama for multimedia-based out-of-school learning

Towards More Authentic Learning in Hypermedia

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