Using Semantic Proximities to Control Contextualized Activities during Museum Visits

We present in this paper CALM (ContextuAlized Learning through Mobility), an ubiquitous learning environment for museum visits. This environment uses semantic proximities over a semantic model of the domain (cultural heritage) and context (e.g. position in the museum, activity) to offer contextualized activities. Our proposal aims to provide learners with situated interactions, while giving teachers the opportunity to integrate learning objectives that will influence the proposed interactions. To that end, we propose to use semantic rules that enables a loosely-based control of learning activities by the teacher.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Heudiasyc CNRS, University of Technology of Compiegne, France

   Pierre-Yves Gicquel, Dominique Lenne & Claude Moulin

Editors and Affiliations

1. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 12015 Waterfront Dr., 90094, Playa Vista, CA, USA

   H. Chad Lane

2. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia

   Kalina Yacef

3. School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

   Jack Mostow

4. Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, 38152, Memphis, TN, USA

   Philip Pavlik

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