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The arrival and development of digital technologies (e.g. the internet, personal computer) including mobile ones (e.g. smartphones) in recent years have raised both support for and concerns about the effects of adoption and usage on learning outcomes. ...

“Modernity” is a social, cultural or historical descriptor for a certain type of society or set of social arrangements. This monograph reviews narratives of digital modernity, without endorsing them; as narratives, they selectively discuss aspects of our ...

Recently, interest has grown in the assessment of anxiety that leverages human physiological and behavioral data to address the drawbacks of current subjective clinical assessments. Complex experiences of anxiety vary on multiple characteristics, ...

This paper discusses the Dialogue or Talk to the development of children's cognitive learning in the social media ubiquitous environment. Dialogue or Talk means opinions, status and comments through Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube etc. Social ...

In this paper we investigate how technologies can be designed to support learning in preparatory classrooms by augmenting existing learning objects. By following an iterative interaction design process of working with teachers and children within the ...

Urban centers worldwide are now facing major challenges in almost every arena; population, health and public safety, environment, information access, housing, employment, security, banking, government and global economic competition. To effectively ...

Urban centers worldwide are now facing major challenges in almost every arena; population, health and public safety, environment, information access, housing, employment, security, banking, government and global economic competition. To effectively ...

Employing concepts of electronic performance support systems and design-based research, this study developed a ubiquitous performance support system for teachers (UPSST) and implemented it in a school setting. Two teachers participated in this study and ...

In this paper an approach is presented for the design of ubiquitous technologies designed for domestic use. There has been, in general, extended research and innovation on the applications, interface and software possibilities and a lot of design ...

Pervasive games are games that are played in the real world---they are not played as a computerized simulation or on a limited physical game arena. The central attraction for pervasive games is that they offer the pleasure of doing things for real. The ...

This paper aims to increase understanding of how ubiquitous interactive systems could facilitate Socio-Pleasure: the enjoyment derived from relationships with others. A framework, termed THE Medium model, is presented; it describes the factors that ...