Manifesto
Mobility and learning environments is concerned with how we can design technology augmented environments for collaborative creative activities like learning, by focusing on the interplay between digital technologies, architecture and learning activities.
The project focuses on small-scale mobility: micro-mobility since new wireless communication technologies, such as bluetooth, open up a wide range of use possibilities in local areas. The methodological framework of the project stresses possibilities for engaging people in designing support for daily life environments. Ethnographical inspired methods in combination with a cultural probes approach will be applied.
- Theme 1 on Micro-mobile environments for inspirational learning addresses the question of how we can design an environment for learning based on new ideas about access to learning resources and mobile technology.
- Theme 2 on Limits to conformity, lever for innovations focuses on what relevance experiences from the special can have for the general.
- Theme 3 is framing the question of how a technical platform for a wireless and mobile environment for inspirational learning could be designed.
For downloading documents describing the project in detail, videos, and other
forms of documentation, please visit our [download
area]
History
The Mobility & Learning project was launched August 2002
and takes place as a collaboration between Certec at Lund Technical University
and Arts and Communication at Malmö University. During most of 2001 the
project was prepared through activities and ideas generated in collaboration
between Electronics and Communications, University
of Zaragoza, Spain and Arts
and Communication - K3 -Malmö
University, Sweden.
We spent almost one year studying mobile technologies and positioning systems,
in order to find the right framework for our experiments. The spanish team
was working in the pre-development phase of a positioning system, while the
swedish one studied cases, and prepared scenarios illustrating the uses of
such tools for context aware content.
During that process we found new partners, both in- and outside the academia.
In the first place, the Certec
at Lund Technical
University, Sweden, offered a second experimental setting, which would
allow us to widen our view on use qualities and needs among different groups
of users.
Industrial partners include Axis,
Blue2Net,
and Anoto. They
are all related to development of bluetooth protocol for smart devices.
[Vinnova] is funding the Mobility and
Learning project from August 2002 to February 2005.
If you want to get more information about how to contact any of the partners within this project, click [here]
K3site news
| Indoor Positioning |
9 August 2004 |
during the Spring 2004 we installed a positioning system covering the whole cafeteria space at K3. About 700m2 will be covered with positioning facilities for the realisation of experiments. Visit the installation's photo gallery [here]
The CADE2004 conference gave us the chance to present the first prototype of the Space Development Kit, a hardware and software tool for programming and navigating virtual events on physical space. There is one paper explaining it's functionality to [download]
| Indoor Positioning | 5 Sept 2003 |
by the end of September 2003, we will install the latest prototype from the University of Zaragoza. It will be a single cell system that will be running at the mekatronics laboratory at K3. In the early November we expect to have K3's cafeteria completely augmented with a multi-cell system.
Anoto will launch a pen with the possibility of streaming information in real
time. We hope to get access to this type of terminals for our experiments.
| Strategic decisions | 1 Sept 2003 |
We have decided to focus on analysing how our students will share information,
and work in collaborative processes, each of them using different mobile devices
for learning. PDAs, webpads, laptops, tablet PCs, and mobile phones will be
included in our studies.
