Usability of Context-Aware Mobile Educational Game

dc.creator	Ching-Wen Chen
dc.creator	Echo Huang
dc.creator	Kinshuk
dc.creator	Maiga Chang
dc.creator	Chris Lu
dc.date	2011-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:17:49Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:17:49Z
dc.identifier	2073-7904
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/9ed75b30e3414ac79753ca5d8c5562a5
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/26496
dc.description	Ubiquitous learning is an innovative approach that combines mobile learning and context-awareness, can be seen as kind of location-based services, first detects user’s location, knows surrounding context, and gets learning profile, and then provides the user learning materials accordingly. Game-based learning have become an emerging research topic and been proved that can increase users’ motivations and interests. The aim of our research is to present a context-awareness multi-agent-based mobile educational game that can generate a series of learning activities for users doing On-the-Job training and make users interact with specific objects in their working environment. We reveal multi-agent architecture (MAA) into the mobile educational game design to achieve the goals of developing a lightweight, flexible, and scalable game on the platform with limited resources such as mobile phones. A scenario with several workplaces, research space, meeting rooms, and a variety of items and devices in 11th floor of a university’s building is used to demonstrate the idea and mechanism proposed by this research. At the end, a questionnaire is used to examine the usability of the proposed game. 37 freshmen participate in this pilot study and the results show that they are interested in using the game and the game does help them getting familiar with the new environment.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Hong Kong Bao Long Accounting & Secretarial Limited
dc.relation	http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/article/view/129/107
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2073-7904
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Knowledge Management & E-Learning : an International Journal, Vol 3, Iss 3, Pp 448-477 (2011)
dc.subject	Context-Awareness
dc.subject	Knowledge Structure
dc.subject	Game-Based Learning
dc.subject	Situated Learning
dc.subject	Multi-Agents System
dc.subject	Mobile Phone
dc.subject	Usability
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Usability of Context-Aware Mobile Educational Game
dc.type	article