| Summary of Research |
My general interests are mobile learning, interacting and learning with mobile devices, human-computer interaction, and context awareness.
For my PhD I am building a software toolkit to allow children to design and play their own collaborative mobile learning games using a mixture of PDAs and desktop PCs.
The idea is that they create their own game based on a topic they are studying and then they can play their game and also games that their friends have created. The system supports location-based games with multiple players. As players move around different locations they can perform actions, pick-up objects, and interact with other players.
My motivation for this work is to involve children in the design of interactive educational experiences rather than just have them use things that have been pre-designed for them, and to use mobile technologies to make the most of being in a physical environment, surrounded by other people.
The system is currently a prototype and I aim to start trials in schools in early 2007
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| Publications |
Beale, R., & Lonsdale, P. (2004a). Engaging larger hci classes with a mixture of methods and resources. Paper presented at the HCI Educators' Workshop, Preston, UK.
Beale, R., & Lonsdale, P. (2004b). Mobile context aware systems: The intelligence to support tasks and effectively utilise resources. Paper presented at the MobileHCI 2004.
Beale, R., Lonsdale, P., & Sharples, M. (2004, Summer 2004). Models for mobile context awareness. AISB Quarterly, 117.
Byrne, W., Lonsdale, P., Sharples, M., Baber, C., & Arvanitis, T. (2004). Determining location in context-aware mobile learning. Paper presented at the MLEARN 2004, Bracciano, Rome.
Chan, T., Sharples, M., Vavoula, G., & Lonsdale, P. (2003). Educational metadata for mobile learning. In Proceedings of Second IEEE Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education.
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