A. Karakostas, Ioulietta Lazarou, G. Meditskos, Thanos G. Stavropoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, M. Tsolaki
{"title":"Sensor-based in-home monitoring of people with dementia using remote web technologies","authors":"A. Karakostas, Ioulietta Lazarou, G. Meditskos, Thanos G. Stavropoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, M. Tsolaki","doi":"10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359618","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of ambient assisted living (AAL) is to help and support elderly persons to manage everyday activities using intelligent and pervasive computing technologies. One of the main issues regarding the support of people with dementia is designing and integrating user-centered AAL environments to assist these people in their daily life activities. These systems should enable people with cognitive impairments to optimize their cognitive functioning in the everyday context, in order to prevent or reduce excess disability, and thus improve quality of life and well-being. This paper presents the main elements of a sensor-based system to support the daily life of people suffering from Alzheimer disease (AD) and dementia. The system monitors the patients at their homes during the performance of daily activities. Different types of sensors are used for monitoring the patients, while a graphical user interface a) enables the clinicians to access and visualize the results and b) supports the patients through specific interventions. The sensor data is semantically integrated and analyzed using knowledge-driven interpretation techniques based on Semantic Web technologies. Overall, this paper presents the system, a 3-month pilot study with one participant and positive preliminary results.","PeriodicalId":228227,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126874410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using the latest developments in mobile technology to improve students' engagement with assessment feedback","authors":"Carolyn Jacobs, Michael Wilson, Charles Barker","doi":"10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359569","url":null,"abstract":"This presentation focuses on web-based `app' that brings together feedback for Moodle-based assignments in one location. The app provides an individual student with summary feedback from tutors and provisional/final marks for all their assignments. The app is available on desktop and mobile devices. This development is based on the hypothesis that by making feedback more accessible, students are more likely to engage with it and this will have a beneficial impact on their learning.","PeriodicalId":228227,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116687938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speaky Notes Learn languages with augmented reality","authors":"Fabio Sorrentino, L. D. Spano, R. Scateni","doi":"10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359574","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, mobile devices have become very popular within young people. Thanks to developments in mobile technologies, these devices can now do much more than just voice calls and texts. We envision mobile devices as tools for improving the young users' lifestyle, especially for learning. In this work we present a web authoring system that makes it possible to create a mobile application that supports children in learning a new language in a more pleasant and entertaining way by using Augmented Reality. This application allows pupils to improve their speaking skills turning the language acquisition into a game under the supervision of both teachers and parents. Our contribution is focused on understanding how digital technology can facilitate learning while keeping in mind that it is a wide and interdisciplinary issue.","PeriodicalId":228227,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115189901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Lazarinis, Kyriaki Alexandri, Vasileios S. Verykios, C. Panagiotakopoulos
{"title":"Raising safer internet awareness through a mobile application based on contrasting visual stories","authors":"F. Lazarinis, Kyriaki Alexandri, Vasileios S. Verykios, C. Panagiotakopoulos","doi":"10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359561","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of our work is to raise children's awareness of the threats in relation to internet safety, in a pleasant way. A game-based self-discovering approach could help children understand all the problems that undermine safe internet access in a more engaging way than a censorious didactic lecturing approach. The purpose of our work was to design and test a mobile application with game features, limited text and short, contrasting, visual stories which will help students reach their own conclusions on internet safety and addiction. This application is suitable for elementary school students. The paper presents the application and the evaluation of the tool.","PeriodicalId":228227,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115849887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A preliminary study on fall risk evaluation through electromiography systems","authors":"G. Rescio, A. Leone, Andrea Caroppo, P. Siciliano","doi":"10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359590","url":null,"abstract":"Falls are very dangerous events among elderly people. Several automatic fall detectors have been developed to reduce the time of the medical intervention, but they cannot avoid the injures due to the fall. In this paper a study about the feasibility of a wearable system for the detection of the fall risk is presented. The aim is to detect the fall before to the impact on the floor, allowing the intervention of an impact reduction system. An electromyography-based system has been chosen because it can recognize the risk of fall faster than other more commonly used inertial sensors based system. The logical framework implements the feature extraction procedure, demonstrating a higher discriminative power of Co-contraction Indices and Integrated EMG for which at least of 70% of specificity and sensitivity are achieved in the classification process.","PeriodicalId":228227,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121867252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secure Fingerprint-based authentication and non-repudiation services for mobile learning systems","authors":"Foudil Belhadj, Samy Ait Aoudia, S. Akrouf","doi":"10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359586","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the solutions proposed to the security and privacy issues in mobile learning systems are generally inherited from those developed in e-learning systems and network communication background. However, the implication of the mobile devices in m-learning can reveal more private data and requires far more challenges. In this paper, we exploit the richness of mobile devices in sensors to propose a fingerprint-based strategy that provides a secure authentication, communication and non-repudiation scheme for mobile learning using recent advances in cancelable biometrics. The proposed scheme covers all the learning system steps starting b y subscription, communication and assessments.","PeriodicalId":228227,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133174734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Konstantinos Manousaridis, A. Mavridis, Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos, Gregory A Kalogiannis
{"title":"Introducing an innovative robot-based mobile platform for programming learning","authors":"Konstantinos Manousaridis, A. Mavridis, Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos, Gregory A Kalogiannis","doi":"10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359549","url":null,"abstract":"The present study introduces an Android based application that focuses on promoting students' learning experience when interacting with Lego Mindstorms Robotic Kit NXT. A thorough investigation of the current literature reveals that there are numerous applications attempting to overcome the limitations of Lego platform which, however, appear to only partially succeed in significantly improving children's engagement in fruitful learning. Their main limitations are that they either function on an elemental level or suffer from a general lack of creating effectively room for children to test their abilities and other curiosities. Aiming at confronting these limitations, the proposed android application, which is referred to as MyNXT, was created and presented. MyNXT offers direct access control along with the choice to program using simple linear logic through an easy and a user friendly environment with built in instructions for all ages. Concluding, the proposed application constitutes a stepping to an educating platform, which can facilitate the learning needs of children in contemporary times.","PeriodicalId":228227,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL)","volume":"26 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114115008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Everyday devices taught and explained to primary school children by following the energy transformations, using web-based software","authors":"D. M. Garyfallidou, G. Ioannidis","doi":"10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359547","url":null,"abstract":"To teach the way everyday devices work, by following the energy transformations along the way, a web-based educational software was used to a total of 230 primary school children. The aim was to investigate the way ordinary teachers behave when using such web-tools, by studying their effectiveness and success rate in guiding pupils to achieve knowledge, following whichever method they may choose. Mobile devices such as tablets can be utilised in class, and/or projectors, as in the case presented. As the effectiveness of the software is already proven, this study qualifies as a measurement of the software's ease of use in everyday school situations. Children's knowledge improvement was measured, while some interesting results are reached herein.","PeriodicalId":228227,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL)","volume":"15 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127641106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meriem Laifa, Roya Imani Giglou, Samir Akhrouf, R. Maamri
{"title":"Trust and forgiveness in virtual teams: A study in Algerian e-learning context","authors":"Meriem Laifa, Roya Imani Giglou, Samir Akhrouf, R. Maamri","doi":"10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359571","url":null,"abstract":"E- learning is gaining more popularity due to the technological development and the personalization it offers for learners and organizations. Most e-learning platforms support group work and collaboration between learners, which is a desirable educational practice. Thus, virtual team members must be flexible to achieve their goals in a cooperative environment. In order to improve learners experiences, and to encourage collaboration between them, we propose and validate a theoretical model that predicts the effect of trust on learners' forgiveness when a conflict occurs in a virtual team.","PeriodicalId":228227,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123393852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Buchem, A. Merceron, J. Kreutel, M. Haesner, A. Steinert
{"title":"Gamification designs in Wearable Enhanced Learning for healthy ageing","authors":"I. Buchem, A. Merceron, J. Kreutel, M. Haesner, A. Steinert","doi":"10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCTL.2015.7359545","url":null,"abstract":"Supporting healthy ageing through sustained physical fitness requires interventions that promote healthy levels of physical activity as part of daily life. Wearable devices, such as activity trackers are body-worn and may be seamlessly integrated into daily activities to promote fitness. Although wearables have been used by younger adopters to optimise physical fitness, little is known so far how these emerging technologies may be leveraged to enhance learning and improve well-being and fitness of seniors. In this paper we present a novel approach to designing Wearable Enhanced Learning (WELL) for healthy ageing as part of the R&D project “Fitness MOOC - interaction of seniors with wearable fitness trackers in the MOOC (fMOOC)”. The fMOOC project is a cooperation between Beuth University of Applied Sciences and the Geriatrics Research Group at Charité Berlin and aims at enhancing healthy ageing through an embodied learning experience in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with support of wearable activity trackers. This paper focuses on gamification designs in wearable enhanced learning for senior users and addresses the issue of user engagement.","PeriodicalId":228227,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116924780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}