mobile and contextualized learning

Chair Informatik 5(Information systems)

Mobile and Contextualized Learning

Anna Glukhova, Ralf Klamma, Dominik Renzel and Zinayida Petrushyna

@Ohrid, Summer School 200818 June 2008


Agenda

Mobility• Digital content creation anywhere anytime• Preserving local context (GPS, Community, etc.)

Non-linear Digital Storytelling• Adoption of classical concepts• Innovative technologies

Demonstration• Upload and annotation of photos (NMV Mobile)• Storytelling creation and view application (MIST)• Evaluation of Service Success (MobSOS)


Motivation

Storytelling - A very old concept• Cultural Memory of Humankind• Intergenerational Knowledge & Experience exchange • Learning by contextualizing

Stories Everywhere• Ancient walls• (Fairy) Tales• Blogs• Computer Games


Combination of Semantic and Episodic Knowledge

Declarative KnowledgeProcedural Knowledge

sensomotoric skills, procedural scriptsnon-documented routines and operations

Episodic Knowledge memory of experiencing past episodes

Web blogs, narrativesSemantic Knowledge

semiotic conceptsdocumentation

Verbal words

linguistic data

Non-verbalimage, icon, index

Video blogs, diagrams, images, photographies

International Conference on Web-based Learning ICWL, 2006

Knowledge ManagementKnowledgeEngineering

Storytelling


Mobility

Ubiquitous Internet - Anywhere anytime• GPS-enhanced mobile devices• Growing user base• Complex heterogeneous technology

Spatial turn• Media – Space & Time• Media - Community • Context may get lost

Ultra High-Speed Mobile Information and Communication

UMICExcellence Cluster at

RWTH Aachen 2007-2011


Producing Digital Content

Easy • to capture with mobile devices• to save & to modify locally • to share ?

Sharing • GPS & Technical metadata

for free• Freeform Description• Flickr.com like Tagging • Semantics ?


Community Oriented Storytelling

Collaboration in storytelling• Non-linear stories• Versioning & Group modification

Social aspects• Feedback & Experience exchange • Learning histories & User classifications

Emotional movement in storytelling• Empowered by impression• Strong wish to share• Immediate action


Movement Oriented Design (MOD) Paradigm

Story units • Basic story units (BSU): Begin(B), Middle(M), End(E)• Composed story units (CSU)

oBSU = B M* EoCSU = (B v BSU)+ (M v BSU)* (E v BSU)+

Problems MediaI = Icsu U IP U IM , where Icsu , IP, IM are identifiers for CSU,

problems addressed and media contained in a story


Demonstration

NMV Mobile MIST MobSOS


NMV Mobile

Watch demo Search for tagged media Capture one image Share captured image Annotate captured image

• Set description• Set keywords

Retrieve the images you shared using tagged-based search


MIST

Watch demo Choose action “open existing story"; select story

“Summer School 2008 - Impressions of Ohrid". Choose one of the existing begin story units. Open the story unit context menu with a right mouse-

click. Choose action “Add Medium" Enter a media search expression and select one of

the results.


MIST (2)

The resulting media node is attached to the begin story unit as a thumbnail.

Open the attached medium's context menu with a right mouse-click on the thumbnail.

Choose action “Insert Edge" In the story graph, select one of the media attached

to a middle story unit. Consume the new story path on the “Viewer" tab.


MobSOS

Watch demo Select survey “Ohrid Summer School Survey 2008" Select your community “Ohrid Summer School 2008" Select service “MPEG-7 Multimedia Content

Service" and complete the “MobSOS Questionnaire on Mobile Multimedia Community Service Success".

Select service “MOD Storytelling Service" and complete the “MobSOS Questionnaire on Mobile Multimedia Community Service Success".

mobile and contextualized learning

Technology

story summer school

story graph

problems media

media capture

story unit context menu

action open existing

middle story unit

motivation storytelling