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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - What do context aware electronic alerts from virtual learning environments tell us about user time & location?
AU - Crane, Laura
AU - Benachour, Phillip
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - The paper describes the analysis of user location and time stamp information automatically logged when students receive and interact with electronic updates from the University's virtual learning environment. The electronic updates are sent to students' mobile devices using RSS feeds. The mobile reception of such information can be received in three dimensions of context: Time, location and activity. Fifteen students took part in this study with the three dimensions of context evenly distributed. The study aims to identify how users can engage with electronic updates related to teaching material, course work feedback, and general announcements from teaching staff across the University's academic departments. As well as user profiling when reading the updates under these three dimensions of context, early investigations show that there exists peak times when users read these updates. All three dimensions exhibited a similar trend with activity being the highest. Initial results indicate that interactions occurred generally during office hours and within the confines of the campus environment, although uses of the activity based application were recorded also in informal locations outside of the working hours.
AB - The paper describes the analysis of user location and time stamp information automatically logged when students receive and interact with electronic updates from the University's virtual learning environment. The electronic updates are sent to students' mobile devices using RSS feeds. The mobile reception of such information can be received in three dimensions of context: Time, location and activity. Fifteen students took part in this study with the three dimensions of context evenly distributed. The study aims to identify how users can engage with electronic updates related to teaching material, course work feedback, and general announcements from teaching staff across the University's academic departments. As well as user profiling when reading the updates under these three dimensions of context, early investigations show that there exists peak times when users read these updates. All three dimensions exhibited a similar trend with activity being the highest. Initial results indicate that interactions occurred generally during office hours and within the confines of the campus environment, although uses of the activity based application were recorded also in informal locations outside of the working hours.
KW - Context aware
KW - Mobile information delivery
KW - Ubiquitous learning
KW - Virtual learning environments
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
AN - SCOPUS:84944097532
T3 - Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2013, ML 2013
SP - 76
EP - 82
BT - Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2013, ML 2013
A2 - Isaias, Pedro
A2 - Sanchez, Inmaculada Arnedillo
A2 - Rodrigues, Luis
PB - IADIS
T2 - IADIS International Conference on Mobile Learning 2013, ML 2013
Y2 - 14 March 2013 through 16 March 2013
ER -