"Isn't this archaeological site exciting!": a mobile system enhancing school trips

ABSTRACT

Explore! is an m-learning system that aims to improve young visitors' experience of historical sites. It exploits the imaging and multimedia capabilities of the latest generation cell phone, creating electronic games that support learning of ancient history during a visit to historical sites. Explore! consists of two main components: 1) the Game Application running on cellular phones, to be used during the game and 2) the Master Application running on a notebook, used by the game master (i.e. a teacher) to perform a reflection phase, which follows the game. Having the Game Application been described in previous papers, in this work we mainly illustrate the Master Application.

REFERENCES

• 1: Ardito, C., Buono, P., Costabile, M. F., Lanzilotti, R., Pederson T. 2007. An Augmented Reality Game on Standard Mobile Phones for Exploring History at Archaeological Parks. R. Meersman et al. (Eds.), LNCS 4805, pp. 357--366. Berlin: Springer (Germany).
• 2: Maria F. Costabile , Antonella De Angeli , Rosa Lanzilotti , Carmelo Ardito , Paolo Buono , Thomas Pederson, Explore! possibilities and challenges of mobile learning, Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 05-10, 2008, Florence, Italy [doi>10.1145/1357054.1357080]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.1 Computer Uses in Education
          Subjects: Collaborative learning

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
learning game, mobile system