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Sept 2008
Mobile Games Project
Work is just starting on an exciting new project with local company Locomatrix, to design an authoring system for context aware outdoor
games on mobiles. This is funded for 18 months by the Technology Strategy Board's Creative Industries Initiative and also involves mobile developers Future Platforms.
July 2008
Interactive
Everywhere
Interactive Everywhere is a two year Creativity
Development Fund project designed to develop a toolkit for
ubiquitous computing. It aims to support students' work in ubiquitous
computing projects by providing a ready-to-use technological
infrastructure that students can use with minimal effort. The project
will provide
a technological infrastructure and example projects to reduce both fear
of failure and over concentration on technological problems, to free
students’ creativity.
The project also gives us a chance to explore issues in ubiquitous
computing for cultural heritage, via a range of case studies. Most
recently we have been working with photographer Julia Winckler to give
interactive audio support for her lovely exhibition Retracing Heinrich
Barth, recently on show at the Brunei Gallery of the School
of Oriental and African Studies. Our interactive art gallery on the 6th
floor of the Watts Building also provides an opportunity to experiment
with context aware applications.
European Projects Update
The group is involved in several learning-related research and
development projects funded by different European Commission funding
programmes.
ARISE (Augmented Reality in
Secondary Education) is an exciting project headed by the Fraunhofer
Insititute, Sankt Augustin, investigating the potential applications
for desktop augmented reality in learning for secondary school students
in six countries across Europe.
Vicadis
(Virtual Campus for Digital Students) is
a two years European Project funded through European Lifelong
Learning Programme 2007 - 2013 / Erasmus / Multilateral Projects /
Virtual Campuses. The project started on 1st October 2007, with ten
partners across six countries.
Our other major focus is the LOGOS
project, which aims to exploit existing multimedia archives and
databases to provide on-demand cross platform learning objects.
This is a 15 partner IST Project, headed by Hungarian broadcasters Antenna
Hungaria. The
project runs for 3 years from February 2006 and will allow us to
develop work on mobile and iTV based learning.
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My current research interests:
Pemberton, L., Fallahkhair, S. and Masthoff, J. 2005. Learner Centred Development of Cross Platform Language Learning Support System, Journal of Educational Technology and Society. 8 (4), 52-63
Pemberton, L. and Fallahkhair, S. 2006. Beyond usability: evaluating a cross-platform language learning service for iTV and mobile phone. Proceedings of EuroITV 2006. Athens, Greece. 25-26 May 2006.
Fallahkhair, S., Pemberton, L., and Griffiths, R. 2005. Dual Device User Interface Design for Ubiquitous Language Learning: Mobile Phone and Interactive Television (iTV). Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Technology for Education (WMTE) in Tokushima, Japan.
Pemberton, L and Fallahkhair, S., 2005. Design Issues for Dual Device Learning: Interactive Television and Mobile Phone. 4th World conference on Mobile Learning, in Cape Town South Africa:
Fallahkhair, S., Masthoff, J. & Pemberton, L. (2004). Learning Languages from Interactive Television: Language Learners Reflect on Techniques and Technologies. In Cantoni, L. & McLoughlin, C. (Eds.) World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications EdMedia 2004. 4336- 4343
Fallahkhair, S., Pemberton, L. & Masthoff, J. (2004). A dual device scenario for informal language learning: interactive television meets the mobile phone. In Kinshuk, Looi, C., Sutinen, E., Sampson, D., Aedo, I., Uden, L., and Kahkonen, E. (Eds.). The 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT 2004. 16-20.
Pemberton, L., Fallahkhair, S., Masthoff, J. (2004). Towards a Theoretical Framework for Informal Language via Interactive Television. In Kinshuk, Sampson, D.G. and Isaias, P. (Eds.) Proceedings of IADIS International Conference of Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA), 27-34.
Andone, D., Boyne,
C., Dron, J. & Pemberton, L. 2005, 'Digital
Students and their Use of eLearning Enviroments', IADIS WWW/Internet
2005, vol. 1, IADIS, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 302-306.
Ana Vitoria Hulshof JolyRecent PhD graduates are:
Ana, who graduated from the MSc programme in Digital Television Management and Production, is now halfway through her PhD project on designing digital media interfaces for pre-school children. She's also been closely involved with the Interactive Everywhere project.
Heloisa Candello Pereira
Heloisa has been studying the behaviour of tourists on guided tours as part of her work on developing audiovisual mobile support for cultural heritage.
Konstantinos Vaxalis
Kostas is an ex-MSc DTV student who is now developing his PhD project on games for social education.
Erminia Carillo
Erminia is a research officer on the EPOCH project, developing her PhD on ICT interpretation for a museum on Hadrian's Wall.
Diane Andone
Diana is researching the concept of the new HE student as "digital learner".
Sanaz Fallahkhair
Design and development of an interactive TV service for learners.Kalthom Husain
Study of CMC in an academic environment - a cross-cultural study of women's use of the Internet in the UK and Malaysia.Michael O'Regan
Michael is working with CENTOPS, the Centre for Tourism Policy Studies on the impact of computer mediated communication on the experience of the culture of the backpacker. This involved field work in South America, for which he's obtained sponsorship from British Airways.
Liz Guy
Vy Rajapillai
Ethnographic study of an IT department, using Activity Theory as an analytical framework, entitled From rollout to appropriation: changing practices of development and use during a groupware project. There's lots of information about the work on Liz's web site. Liz is Senior Lecturer in CMIS.
Cross-cultural study of computer mediated communication: European and Indian academic collaborations. Vy is currently working at the University of Brighton, dividing her time between CMIS and the School of Languages. She worked as Research Officer on our current project to investiagate technological support for stakeholder participation in SCIE.Jenny Fry
Empirical study of CMC across academic disciplines. Jenny worked for several years as a post-doc first in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill and then at Nerdi, the Networked Research and Digital Information group at the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services in Amsterdam. She's now back in the UK at the Oxford Internet Institute.Ruth Crawley
A framework for describing and selecting Computer Supported Co-operative Learning applications. Ruth worked as an educational researcher at the Open University's Institute for Educational Technology and became part of Brighton's e-learning scene with Epic.Simon Shurville
Simon's thesis developed the concept of Method oriented design environments, with a proof-of-concept system for parametric analysis. His work was supported by Integral Solutions Ltd. Simon moved to work as an educational technology researcher at Oxford University's Teaching and Learning Centre, from there to a post leading developments in digital learning environments at the University of Sussex here in Brighton adn thence to Cranfield Univeristy of Technology. He's now Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, where he maintains his always original blog.Claire Dormann
Claire wrote her thesis on interactive animated icons and has broad interests in semiotics and HCI. After working as a post doc researcher in Denmark and the Netherlands, she's now part of the HOT lab at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
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Undergraduate project Information - Ideas for Projects (updated September 2008)
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