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Smartening Up the Student Learning Experience with Ubiquitous Media

Authors:

Diana S. Bental,

Eliza Papadopoulou,

Nicholas K. Taylor,

M. Howard Williams,

Fraser R. Blackmun,

Idris S. Ibrahim,

Ioannis Mimtsoudis,

Stuart W. Whyte,

Edel JenningsAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 12, Issue 1s

Article No.: 23, Pages 1 - 23

https://doi.org/10.1145/2808203

Published: 21 October 2015 Publication History

Abstract

This article describes how an experimental platform for social, mobile and ubiquitous computing has been used in a wide-ranging longitudinal “in the wild” case study of the platform with a set of third-party services. The article outlines some of the relevant aspects of the platform, including built-in support for community formation, for context sensitivity, automated learning and adaptation to the user, and for management of privacy and trust relationships. The platform architecture is based on the notion of Cooperating Smart Spaces (CSSs), where a CSS is a partition of the platform corresponding to a single user and distributed over the devices belonging to that user. Three of the case study services were intended for use in a physical environment specifically created to support ubiquitous intelligence; they were highly interactive and used shared screens, voice input and gestural interaction. Another three ubiquitous services were available throughout the university environment as mobile and desktop services. The case study exploited this architecture's ability to integrate multiple novel applications and interface devices and to deliver them flexibly in these different environments. The platform proved to be stable and reliable and the study shows that treating a provider of services and resources (the University) as a CSS is instrumental in enabling the platform to provide this range of services across differing environments.

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Index Terms

Smartening Up the Student Learning Experience with Ubiquitous Media
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications Volume 12, Issue 1s

Special Issue on Smartphone-Based Interactive Technologies, Systems, and Applications and Special Issue on Extended Best Papers from ACM Multimedia 2014

October 2015

317 pages

ISSN:1551-6857

EISSN:1551-6865

DOI:10.1145/2837676

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Published: 21 October 2015

Accepted: 01 July 2015

Revised: 01 April 2015

Received: 01 January 2015

Published in TOMM Volume 12, Issue 1s

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Lin VLiu GChen N(2020)The effects of an augmented-reality ubiquitous writing application: a comparative pilot project for enhancing EFL writing instructionComputer Assisted Language Learning10.1080/09588221.2020.177029135:5-6(989-1030)Online publication date: 29-May-2020
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