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Measuring group dynamics in an elementary school setting using mobile devices

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UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2971596

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Mobile instrumentation provides researchers and professionals the opportunity to collect data on several aspects of human life. In this paper we discuss our initial experiences on collecting data via mobile instrumentation in an elementary school. We augmented a classroom with mobile phones and Bluetooth beacons to capture student experiences as well as their relative distance to each other during a collaborative group project. We describe the study, and present lessons learned when instrumenting such a unique school setting with young participants.

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Visuri AFerreira DPirttikangas SKostakos VSynnes KLindqvist JNishiyama YLee STakayama LTruong K(2017)UbiMI'17Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers10.1145/3123024.3124454(448-451)Online publication date: 11-Sep-2017
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UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct

September 2016

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ISBN:9781450344623

DOI:10.1145/2968219

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KAIST
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University of Washington

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