Mobile HCI and the learning context: an exploration
Niall Winters, Sara A. Price · 2005
Recent advances in context-awareness provide the facility to track people and objects in the real world and to use these as a trigger for digital events to occur. We are interested in how context-aware mobile technologies can be designed to facilitate learning, and in so doing, to support the cycle between situated action in the real world and subsequent objective reflection. However, what it is to contextualize learning remains unclear. Therefore, we delineate emerging constructs of context and explore the issues surrounding the complexity of each for the learning process. We then draw out some implications for research into the design of contextualized learning applications for mobile devices.