Mobile and Contextualized Learning

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Mobile and Contextualized Learning

Anna Glukhova, Ralf Klamma, Dominik Renzel and Zinayida Petrushyna

@Ohrid, Summer School 200818 June 2008

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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 ?

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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

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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

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Demonstration

NMV Mobile MIST MobSOS

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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

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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.

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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.

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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".