Chris Beall and Arwa TyebkhanCS 7470 Final Presentation

Mobile Device Language Trainer

Chris A. BeallArwa Z. Tyebkhan

CS 7470 Final Presentation

Chris Beall and Arwa TyebkhanCS 7470 Final Presentation

Introduction

Location and Schedule based system “Ambushing” technique Goal: To develop a useful, usable and ubiquitous

system

Chris Beall and Arwa TyebkhanCS 7470 Final Presentation

Related Work

Social Serendipity Augur: Ambushing Reno: Social Disclosure of Location Eigenbehaviors

Chris Beall and Arwa TyebkhanCS 7470 Final Presentation

Client side Implementation

J2ME based Application developed on Nokia Series 60 Phones

Uses Wireless Web Service for Communication

Use of Bluelon Bluetooth Tags for Location Sensing

Chris Beall and Arwa TyebkhanCS 7470 Final Presentation

Server side Implementation

Web Server using PHP and MySQL Stores Language Words, and Tag Information Responds to Client Requests and delivers

Words when the User is found to be available Logs Application Usage Data

Chris Beall and Arwa TyebkhanCS 7470 Final Presentation

Pilot Study

1 User, Novice Spanish Speaker 1.5 Week long Study Pre-Study and Post-Study Survey Used 10 BT Tags placed in Strategic

Locations

Chris Beall and Arwa TyebkhanCS 7470 Final Presentation

Results

Tag ID Accepted Refused IgnoredHome 1 1Home 2 8 1Car 1 3Student 2Some Tags 17 5 6No Tags 1 3 6Schedule 2 2 3

Chris Beall and Arwa TyebkhanCS 7470 Final Presentation

Future Work Improvement of Training Method Better Availability Estimation Addition of other desirable Services e.g.

Traffic, Financial Information, Ambushing Mechanisms

Chris Beall and Arwa TyebkhanCS 7470 Final Presentation

Conclusion

The Mobile Phone Language Trainer was successfully implemented

User was satisfied with the application Ease of use and usefulness demonstrated

Chris Beall and Arwa TyebkhanCS 7470 Final Presentation

THANK YOU

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