Tablet PC

Abstract. The wide availability of game based technologies and sophisticated e-Learning possibilities creates new demands and challenges on Human–Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering (HCI&UE). Solid research in HCI must support improvement in learning ability and creativity for both teachers and students. According to recent market surveys the Wii remote controller or Wiimote is currently more wide spread than standard Tablet PCs and is the most used computer input device worldwide. As a collection of many ...

The number of students using the e-learning services provided by the central open education system at Anadolu University has been increasing day by day. More than 200 thousand students used the e-Book, e-Practice, e-Exam, e-Facilitator Service, e-Television, and e-Audio Book that are available in the Open Education e-Learning Portal in the 2004-2005 academic year. This study evaluates the opportunities own by the students who want to use the open education e-learning services via mobile devices. Seven groups of mobile devices i.e., laptops and tablet PCs, pocket computers with and without telephone, portable media players, mp3 players and smart telephones were analyzed in terms of online and offline use.

... a set of classroom interac-tion scenarios, particularly in student submis-sions, for enhancing student engagement ... Techniques Sup-ported by the Use of Student Devices in Teaching Software Engineering ... 5. R. Anderson et al., “Supporting Active Learning and Exam-ple-Based ...

No one in the U.S. education realm denies the need for change. Yet, it is impossible to find a consensus on how, to what extent, and by what means such change can be brought about. Tablet PCs seem to marshal many characteristics needed to streamline the sought transformation. This study proposes to examine the effects on students' motivation and academic achievement of adopting and using tablet PCs in low SES schools. It hypothesizes that using iPad tablets in a blended learning environment will positively impact students' motivation to learn and, thus, improve their academic achievement in math, compared to those who are using traditional textbooks.

The increased popularity of tablets in general has led to uptake in education. This chapter builds upon the past research and experience of the authors, in particular the findings of a critical systematic literature review that reports on the use of tablets in schools (see Haßler, Major & Hennessy, 2015). The aim of that review is to determine if, when and how using tablets impacts on learning outcomes: Do the knowledge and skills of students increase following the use of tablets for particular purposes, and, if so, what factors contribute to successful or unsuccessful use? Outcomes of the review enable us to reflect on the impact and affordances of using tablets educationally, and allow us to consider factors related to the successful integration of tablets in schools. This chapter provides information and advice for educators (including initial teacher educators) and school policy makers interested in the educational use of tablets. Overall, tablets have significant potential for enhancing learning—but, as with all technology—the most important element remains the teacher, and their classroom practice.

The increased popularity of tablets in general has led to uptake in education. We critically review the literature reporting use of tablets by primary and secondary school children across the curriculum, with a particular emphasis on learning outcomes. The Systematic Review methodology was used and our literature search resulted in 33 relevant studies meeting the inclusion criteria. A total of 23 met the minimum quality criteria and were examined in detail (16 reporting positive learning outcomes, 5 no difference and 2 negative learning outcomes). Explanations underlying these observations were analysed, and factors contributing to successful uses of tablets are discussed. While we hypothesise how tablets can viably support children in completing a variety of learning tasks (across a range of contexts and academic subjects), the fragmented nature of the current knowledge base, and the scarcity of rigorous studies, make it difficult to draw firm conclusions. The generalisability of evidence is limited and detailed explanations as to how, or why, using tablets within certain activities can improve learning remain elusive. We recommend that future research moves beyond exploration towards systematic and in-depth investigations building on the existing findings documented here.

This posting of an annotated bibliography on gesture user interfaces, on-line character recognition (a.k.a.  dynamic character recognition, a.k.a. pen and touch computing), both hardware and software, has been a continuing work-in-progress since the 1980s. It includes information on related application topics, such as digital rights management (DRM), portable computing, cryptographic communications, and biometric authentication. I am posting it as a service to those with interest in the field. It may also be of special interest to anyone investigating any of the areas of digitizer tablets, touchscreens, character recognition, touch/gesture user interfaces, multi-touch computing, touch and proximity sensors, augmented reality, haptics, context-dependent intrepretation of user input, and applications including the same. It covers the time period from approximately 1891 (first electronic tablet) through 1914 (first gesture/handwriting-recognition input system) to the present day.

In this paper, we compile the related literature of the applications of tablet pc on preschool field. Studies are combined together under four class: Teachers' view, Children's View, Applications Point, Other Related Studies. Computer technologies are used in the preschool education in the few last decades but a tablet computer has begun to take place in preschool education in last few years. Related to the ―use of computers in education‖ views made over time, but the advent of tablets is rather new. In preschool education; many type of activity with tablet computers can be utilized. Preschool activity is based mostly on a lot of games and a variety of play activities should be used for every subject for children. This necessity creates an educational software demand. Educational game software market each day a little more growing and diversifying with game-based activities will be an important response to this demand. Then, variety of game based applications with tablet computers can be used in preschool education. On the other hand, an increasing use of technology in all areas spread the world. Nations uses computers are separated from the others in a positive direction which creates ―digital divide‖. This technology integration process may help preschool activities to be successful and besides produces technology-friend generations. This literature review is examining the studies which are conducted in this field, in terms of benefits, limitations, software and usability and offers advice to researchers both in theoretical and practical ways by synthesizing the existing findings.

1. Раннее развитие ребёнка ‒ это гарантированное научение ребёнка с самого раннего возраста базовым навыкам и представлениям, а также поддержка выявляемых способностей ребёнка в гармонии с психофизическим ростом и поэтапной социализацией.
2. Методики и технологии раннего развития просты, удобны и понятны.
3. Планшет или смартфон – не развлечение, а устройство для обучения, которое можно использовать наряду с традиционными развивающими игрушками (с 3-4 лет, 20-40 мин. в день) для гарантированного научения и социализации ребёнка, выявления и развития его способностей.
4. Ответственный за обучение ребёнка взрослый должен разбираться в электронных устройствах лучше, чем ребёнок.
5. У ребёнка должен быть собственный смартфон или планшет, если они даны ему для обучения ‒ собственный электронный учебник.
6. Свободная детская образовательная среда ‒ основа детского учебно-игрового киберпространства, защищающая ребёнка от опасностей планшета и интернета.
7. Ответственный взрослый выступает как методист-любитель.

BackgroundTraditionally, clinical research studies rely on collecting data with case report forms, which are subsequently entered into a database to create electronic records. Although well established, this method is time-consuming and error-prone. This study compares four electronic data capture (EDC) methods with the conventional approach with respect to duration of data capture and accuracy. It was performed in a West

In this study, 9th grade students' attitudes about usage of tablet PCs in FATIH Project were examined. The research method was survey and a convenience sample consisting of 220 students was used. The data were gathered via a revised form of "Tablet PC Attitude Scale" developed by Beeland (2002) and adapted to Turkish by Sünkür, Şanlı ve Arabacı (2011). Frequency, percentage and mean statistics were used to analyze the data. Additionally independent- samples t-test and one-way ANOVA statistics were used to determine whether attitudes towards tablet PC usage differ from in terms of gender, kind of school and having a PC. According to findings tablet PC appeals to students and presents an enjoyable learning environment for them. Students like to use tablet PC and consider that it will affect to have a good job in future. Students' attitudes towards the tablet PC do not differ in terms of gender and students' attitudes who have their own PC are more positive than others.

Recent mobile learning technologies offer the opportunity for students to take charge of the learning process both inside and outside the classroom. One of these tools is the tablet PC (hereafter 'tablet'). In parallel with increased access to e-content, the role of tablets in learning has recently begun to be examined. This study aims to reveal the relationship between the level of acceptance of tablets (TAM) and the level of self-directed learning with technology (SDLT) of students and to differentiate these in terms of gender. A mixed method research design is used in this study. In addition, the qualitative part of the study aims to determine the reasons students have for using or not using tablets for supporting learning. The study group consisted of 414 high school students, involved in the pilot application group of the FATIH project in Turkey. According to the study, a significant positive relationship was determined between four of the variables of tablet acceptance and the SDLT level. While the degree of acceptance of tablets was different according to gender, the SDLT level was not.

In this paper we present a framework and a system implementation for the exploitation of embedded knowledge in the domain of industrial maintenance in a mobile context, using Augmented Reality techniques. We base our approach in the SOUPA group of ontologies (Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications). Our approach extends SOUPA with two new ontologies (i) the Set of Experience Knowledge Structure, used to model the user’s experience and (ii) the AR ontology which models an Augmented Reality environment that is used to enhance the maintenance experience through virtual elements. As test case, we implemented our approach in different portable devices with video input capabilities such as UMPCs, PDAs and Tablet PCs.

Many educational institutions have been using lots of technologies in classrooms to increase the effectiveness of learning activities. In recent years, tablet PC (TPC)'s have been the primary of these technologies. Technology especially comes to exist in busy environments and gets even more important in the environments where students defined as "digital native" can use technology effectively. However, there have been no sufficient studies about the acceptance, readiness and use of tablet PC's in secondary schools. In this research, secondary school students' acceptance of tablet PC was examined with technology acceptance model, and readiness variable was also added. As a result of the research, it was found that secondary school students' acceptance level of tablet PC is explained at a good level. It was also found that readiness is an important variable for intention to use tablet PC. Also it was found that self-efficacy and anxiety in acceptance of tablet PC are important external variables.

Technology is oftenly used in numerous areas, also including the field of education. Especially the tablet computers (TPC) play an important role in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the educational studies. In order for the emergence of the aforementioned effect and the effective use of the TPCs by the students, it is necessary for the students to accept the tablet computers by having a positive behaviour towards them, feeling that they are easy to use and also useful for the learning activities, while also having intentions of using them in the learning activities. In this study, the secondary education students’ acceptance of the TPCs was analyzed by selecting the technology acceptance model as the baseline and developing the Tablet Computer Acceptance Scale. A valid and reliable scale that measured the secondary education students’ acceptance of the TPC emerged as a result of the study.

This paper presents an innovative application of Augmented Reality (AR) techniques in the field of industrial engineering in which the user explores data from numerical simulations or the results of measurements and experiments, superimposed to the real object that they refer to. The user observes the object through a tablet PC, used as a video see-through handheld display. Data are visualized superimposed to the real object that represents a spatial reference relative to which the user can refer to, so the exploration is more natural compared to a traditional visualization software. Moreover, we have developed a new framework, called VTK4AR, that provides a set of useful software classes for the rapid development of AR applications for scientific visualization. VTK4AR is built on top of VTK (an open source API for scientific visualization), so it will be possible to employ a wide range of visualization techniques in many application fields, and moreover, it is possible to interactively manipulate data-sets in order to achieve a more effective way of visualization.

Pada pasar produk saat ini, desain dari sebuah produk telah mulai bergeser dari pendekatan yang berorientasi produksi menjadi pendekatan berorientasi pemasaran dan sekarang menjadi pendekatan berorientasi kepada pelanggan. Bertolak belakang dengan pemikiran kuno yang memandang aspek kognitif lebih berperan dibandingan aspek emosi dalam pengambilan keputusan, emosi berperan dalam pengambilan suatu keputusan yang dilakukan oleh seorang pembeli terhadap suatu produk. Salah satu pasar yang berkembang cukup pesar saat ini adalah pasar teknologi, khususnya smartphone. Dalam pemakaian sebuah produk berbasis teknologi, salah satu faktor penting yang dijadikan pertimbangan untuk memakai produk tersebut adalah tingkat kenyamanan selama berinteraksi dengan produk tersebut. Selain faktor kenyamanan, faktor lain yang mempengaruhi adalah faktor emosi atau afektif dari produk itu sendiri yang mampu mempengaruhi pemakai. Penelitian ini bermaksud mengembangkan model konseptual usability produk HCI khususnya Tablet PC, dengan mengintegrasikan aspek fungsional atau kognitif dan aspek afektif untuk menyeimbangkan kebutuhan fungsional produk dan kebutuhan emosional pengguna. Pendekatan penelitian menggunakan persamaan struktural digunakan untuk membangun model penilaian usability dengan menghubungkan hipotesis teoritis antara faktor-faktor utama yang melibatkan 380 orang. Structural Equation Modeling merupakan suatu teknik statistik yang dipakai untuk menguji serangkaian hubungan antara beberapa variabel yang terbentuk dari variabel faktor atau variabel terobservasi. Structural equation modeling (SEM), adalah suatu teknik modeling statistik yang bersifat sangat cross-sectional, linear dan umum. Termasuk dalam SEM ini ialah analisis faktor (factor analysis), analisis jalur (path analysis) dan regresi (regression). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya korelasi yang kuat antar indikator kognitif dan afektif terhadap indikator usability.



On today's product market, the design of a product has begun to shift from a production-oriented approach to a marketing-oriented approach and is now a customer-oriented approach. Contrary to the previous thought that perceives the cognitive aspect is more important than the emotional aspects of decision making, emotions play a role in making a decision by a buyer of a product. One of the emerging markets is quite big today is the technology market, especially smartphones. In the use of a technology-based product, one important factor taken into consideration for using the product is the level of comfort during interacting with the product. In addition to convenience factors, other factors that affect the emotional or affective factors of the product itself that is able to affect the user. This research intends to develop conceptual model of usability of HCI product especially Tablet PC, by integrating functional aspect or cognitive and affective aspect to balance functional requirement of product and emotional requirement of user. The research approach using structural equations is used to construct usability assessment models by linking the theoretical hypothesis between the main factors involving 380 peoples. Structural Equation Modeling is a statistical technique used to test a series of relationships between several variables formed from factor or observed variables. Structural equation modeling (SEM), is a statistical modeling technique that is highly cross-sectional, linear and general. Included in this SEM is factor analysis, path analysis and regression. The research results showed a strong correlation between cognitive and affective indicators of usability indicators.

Abstract: This article discusses the requirements for developing a mobile model-based bridge lifecycle management system (MMBLMS). This new system should link all the information about the lifecycle stages of a bridge (e.g., design, construction, inspection, and maintenance) to a 4D model of the bridge incorporating different scales of space and time to record events throughout the lifecycle with suitable levels of details (LoDs). In addition, MMBLMS should support distributed databases and mobile location-based computing by providing user interfaces that can be used on mobile computers, such as tablet PCs. A framework for MMBLMS is described and the basic computational issues for realizing it are discussed including the navigation modes, the picking behavior and the LoDs for representing bridge elements and defects. A prototype system developed in Java language is used to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed methodology for realizing this system.