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Urban pollution control systems suffer from the presence of fixed stations in a greater number than mobile monitoring devices. Data gathered from such stations provide detailed and reliable information, thanks to equipment quality and effective measuring protocols, but these sampled data are gathered from very limited areas and through discontinuous monitoring campaigns. Fortunately, the spread of...
Online education is evolving at a fast pace thanks to novel technology-mediated learning environments: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), gamified learning, intelligent tutoring systems, citizen-science communities, informal learning groups are blossoming everywhere as novel opportunities for teachers and learners. However, the educational effectiveness of these solutions has to be proved and technological...
Mobile Crowdsensing is often used for involving large number of persons in distributed sensing experiments. In some cases, (e.g., online games, online sensing of sensitive data, etc.) privacy and security issues arise. Peer-to-peer networks can be effectively used to guarantee anonymity and solve the above mentioned issues. In this scenario, we describe an experiment of browser-based peer-to-peer...
The considerable diffusion of mobile devices discloses several opportunities also in the educational context. The adoption of mobiles as sensing devices (Mobile Crowd Sensing, MCS) and their systematic introduction into curricular activities for improving the learning effectiveness (Bring Your Own Device, BYOD) are two promising approaches that have demonstrated their suitability in the recent years,...
The continuous evolution of wireless networks, as well as the attention paid by the public opinion to human exposure to electromagnetic fields radiated by basestation antennas, render the development of software tools to support optimum design and planning of 3G networks highly desirable. Though many tools are already available, open problems are still on the table. One key issue is represented by...
Local transportation services are an essential component of all modern urban infrastructures. The constantly growing requirements and expectations from several stakeholders, ranging from public authorities, service providers and customers, demand a deep rethinking of the entire system. Such services must be oriented towards sustainability and everyday living, thus needing significant Quality of Service...
The availability of mobile devices anywhere and anytime allows us to experience new ways of teaching scientific disciplines. The opportunities disclosed by smartphones along with their rich outfit of embedded sensors can be exploited according to novel sensing paradigms, as the Mobile Crowd-Sensing (MCS). Moreover, the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model promises a capillary diffusion of mobiles in...
In 2013, in the context of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the European Commission promoted a major initiative addressing cloud computing and the public sector, named Cloud-for-Europe (C4E), for the creation of a digital single market of IT services in the cloud. That initiative pushes public sector organizations from Member States for preparing themselves in procuring secure, cost-effective,...
Scientific disciplines nowadays benefits from e-learning technologies and online laboratories. This allows engaging students more effectively and achieving better learning outcomes. However, even the most recent online laboratorial solutions lack in offering some valuable capabilities, such as the cooperative dimension, which promises to boost the students' involvement and their interactions with...
The Smart City model is capturing a constantly growing interest worldwide, boosted by several drivers. On the one hand, novel Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) disclose promising scenarios to modern cities in terms of innovation, business opportunities and life-quality improvement. On the other hand, increasing requirements on urban resources (e.g., transportation systems, energy consumption...
The astonishing and continuously growing diffusion of mobile devices, especially amongst youngsters, represents a promising opportunity to improve learning quality in scientific disciplines for both high-school and university students. Mobile embedded sensors allows the development of complete and large-scale environmental monitoring solutions, according to the Mobile Crowd-Sensing (MCS) paradigm...
The success achieved by Cloud Computing Services (CCSs) in modern IT scenarios is nowadays a matter of fact and service offerings between providers and customers continuously grow up and widen their scope. Similarly, service offerings are more and more based upon dynamic reservation and allocation of network, storage and computational resources, the hiding of visibility of internal IT components,...
The educational context is experiencing in the last years a decisive shift towards novel pedagogical trends aimed at improving both learning quality and teaching methodologies. Online scientific experimentations represent one of these new paths. Indeed, they promise to combine the educational benefits from "learning-by-doing" approaches, which foster a deeper understanding in theoretical...
Cloud computing services are seeing great success in IT scenarios. Dynamic reservation and allocation of network, storage and computational resources, the hiding of visibility of internal IT components, as well as the pay-per-use paradigm are nowadays more and more widespread ways to provide and consume services. Their complexity, however, is clearly visible in composing services to satisfy users'...
The need to shift from traditional teaching perspective to novel learning paradigms, mobile computing and experiential coursework is nowadays so relevant that both educators, curriculum designers and institutions must cope with these innovations, by progressively absorbing them into their programs. In such a scenario, we firmly believe that the actual pervasivity of mobile devices amongst learners...
Personal mobile devices are nowadays so pervasive that a broad range of novel learning practices and paradigms can profitably exploits them. Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is one of them. In MCS, mobiles act as data sources for monitoring tasks (e.g., traffic planning, air pollution monitoring, emergency management), thanks to their computational capability and their embedded sensors. From a pedagogical...
Online Laboratories are becoming more and more appealing in many educational scenarios due to technology advancements and the rising of pedagogical interests. Therefore, the scientific community that orbits around them is growing as well. Proper qualitative and quantitative analyses are needed to profile publications and their authors, to highlight trends and most promising research areas, to identify...
The diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies continuously allows users and customers to benefit from powerful devices, new functionalities and more appealing wireless services. However, the more mobile services are provided, the more telecommunication companies must comply with specific Quality of Service (QoS) levels. Therefore, users' requests can be guaranteed by increasing the offering...
E-learning technologies and online laboratories are boosting up the ways learners now experience scientific disciplines. However, in order to better engage students in online experiments, a cooperative dimension is needed, where students can seamlessly interact with their peers and participate actively to the laboratorial activities. Therefore, we propose in this paper a collaborative, hierarchical,...
This paper presents a social collaborative e-learning platform modeled and designed for the building sector. The proposed platform integrates the most adequate and up-to-date technological components in terms of Content Management System (Joomla!), Learning Management System (Moodle) and Web Conference Software (BigBlueButton). The platform was designed by taking into account requirements coming from...
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