Mobile Education: Towards Affective Bi-modal Interaction for Adaptivity

Abstract

Abstract-One important field where mobile technology can make significant contributions is education. However one criticism in mobile education is that students receive impersonal teaching. Affective computing may give a solution to this problem. In this paper we describe an affective bi-modal educational system for mobile devices. In our research we describe a novel approach of combining information from two modalities namely the keyboard and the microphone through a multi-criteria decision making theory.

Smartphone Crowdsourcing and Data Sharing Towards Advancing User Experience and Mobile Services

“…As is widely known, Bluetooth is used in order to send and receive data from other Bluetooth enabled devices. The distance at which the connection is possible can reach up to 30 meters with the precondition that the devices in question are in direct line of sight of each other while inside buildings it is reduced to 10-20 meters [27].…”

“…Mobile devices become more and more popular all over the globe, as they offer time and space independence [1,27], forming a tight" bond" between them and the users as they always tend to be close by [2]. More specifically, statistics indicate that 78% of users are using their smartphones more than they did a year ago, while the corresponding growth for laptops/desktops is limited to 42% [2].…”