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The convergence of Wi-Fi technologies and mobile devices present prospects to design and implement applications that will support learning on the move. Mobile learning (m-learning) is the study and practice of using mobile devices, such as smart phones, mobile phones, tablets, PDAs, MP3s and pocket PCs to support learning for anyone, anytime and anywhere. Through well-situated and flexible mobile...
Mobile technologies can be used to enhance learning experiences of students in different ways, supporting the CILP, the creative and innovative learning process. In this study was analyzed how the combination of the flipped classroom approach and mobile devices used as educational tools in higher education could support innovative learning in a university in Turkey. The results of the study revealed...
Despite the advancements made towards learning such as technological innovations in the classroom and access to learning in general, there are significant challenges that remain especially the modes of delivery of quality education apart from the traditional classroom teaching and learning. In the endeavour to discover feasible solutions for these challenges, much trust has been put in new data and...
With the increasing popularity of mobile devices and data demands, it seems appropriate to provide mobile users with tools to understand information on their devices. Visualisations can be quick and powerful aids for data analysis and information acquisition. This paper discusses the visualisation and interaction techniques that exist on the mobile platform. It further discusses the design and development...
Image processing technology has grown significantly over the past decade. Its application on low-power mobile devices has been the interest of a wide research group related to newly emerging contexts such as augmented reality, visual search, object recognition, and so on. With the emergence of general-purpose computing on embedded GPUs and their programming models like OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenCL, mobile...
Recent technological developments can provide technical assistance to support disabled people in their everyday tasks and improve their quality of life. This paper presents the results of preliminary experiments focused on the design of a software-based system for assisting visually impaired individuals Saudi Arabia. The proposed system will help these users in experiencing safer and yet independent...
Smart Mobile device are becoming popular platforms for information accessing, especially when coupled with recommendation system technologies. They are also treated as key tools for mobile users both for leisure and business applications. Recommendation techniques can increase the usability of mobile systems by providing more personalized and interested content. In this paper, a novel personalized...
Mobile devices with their various form factors have become the most convenient and pervasive computing platform, whether to carry out everyday business or to get online. Mobile users tend to adopt the fast food trend even in consuming online mobile services and functionalities. The Web service approach promises great flexibility in offering software functionality over the network, while maintaining...
Although mobile devices are rapidly developing with new advanced functionalities, the advances in battery capacity are much slower. In the Green-T project, we address the energy efficiency problem by utilizing multiple radio interfaces in efficient ways in order to optimize the energy consumption. A first step is to use the interface which provides the best energy efficiency for the required service...
Mobile Applications are rapidly emerging as a convenient medium for using a variety of services. In ubiquitous environment, the challenge relies on developing applications that sense and react to environmental changes to provide a value-added user experience. This context awareness property improves application usability. Context information can be related to the environment, user but also to the...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of using mobile devices for promoting subject learning in school education. A total of 43 Chinese students from two Primary 4 classes in a primary school in Hong Kong participated in this study. One class was randomly assigned as the experimental class, while the other class as the control class. Students in the experimental class used...
A lot of groupware systems for stationary computers have been already developed, but a question remains open: How can we achieve a proportional diversity of this kind of systems for mobile devices? In this paper, we try to answer this question by proposing an architecture for a development toolkit, which aims to provide reusable building tools that facilitate the implementation of mobile groupware...
In this work we approach the study of team situation awareness based upon a holistic perspective that integrates the shared and distributed nature of the construct. We studied team situation awareness in the context of critical incidents response management, as it constitutes a valuable asset and yet is continuously challenged by the very nature of the context. We applied a micro world approach as...
To provide effective mobile services in spite of network disruption, context aware middleware services on mobile devices and application servers can provide services for continuation of applications, by managing mobile services, network connection, limited resources, and context information. In this paper, we propose context aware middleware services for disconnection tolerant mobile application services...
Mobile social applications are becoming increasingly popular with a growing number of users turning to mobile devices for socializing, information sharing, retrieval or related activities, and/or gaming. The increased interest in the domain has resulted in numerous application prototypes being reported in the recent years that combine elements of socializing, gaming, and information related activities,...
This paper aims to study the influence of user-context on mobile information needs with the following two objectives. (1) To identify the role of user-context as a trigger for mobile information needs and (2) To examine how user-context can affect the fulfillment of information needs via mobile devices either as impediments, facilitators or both. Data collection methods involved a one week diary study...
With the abundance and ubiquity of mobile devices, a new class of applications is emerging, called participatory sensing (PS), where people can contribute data (e.g., images, video) collected by their mobile devices to central data servers. However, privacy concerns are becoming a major impediment in the success of many participatory sensing systems. While several privacy preserving techniques exist...
The constant advent of powerful mobile devices has raised the potential of building novel context-aware applications. These applications let the users enjoy a better experience by sensing their context and automating tasks that would otherwise require significant user attention. This paper presents two context-aware applications, built on top of the MUSIC middleware's context management framework...
The “Web of Things” vision promotes the integration of smart devices into web, using web technologies and protocols as underlying interaction mechanisms with smart devices. Technically many phones include various sensors and provide a large-scale sensing platform. To make this functionality available to a large number of (web) developers our research aims at easing the creation of applications that...
Mobile learning is considered the next step of online learning by incorporating mobility as a key requirement. Indeed, the current wide spread of mobile devices and wireless technologies brings an enormous potential to e-learning, in terms of ubiquity, pervasiveness, personalization, flexibility, and so on. For this reason, Mobile Learning is attracting significant research efforts covering a fairly...
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