TY - GEN
T1 - Information empowerment through mobile learning
AU - Koh, Raymond Koon Chuan
AU - Tan, Henry Xin Liong
AU - Duh, Henry Been Lirn
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Information empowers those who make sense from its successful interpretation; this is especially true on the subject of weather where the recipient is required to have prior forms of fundamental understanding towards the natural occurring phenomenon and its effects. This study facilitates the learning of complex weather phenomena for children using a unique educational approach using mobile technology. The initiative runs under Singapore's National Weather Study Project (NWSP), which already operates a network of mini weather stations in schools across the state to promote environmental awareness and support dynamic interactions with real time data. Its data is accessible via Web, Microsoft SensorMap and Google Earth interfaces. IWIS, an application for the recent Google Android mobile platform taps onto the fusion of mapping and the weather project server's data to present to children accessible local multi-variate weather data depicted using visual metaphors and propagates the development of mobile learning applications in the imminent future.
AB - Information empowers those who make sense from its successful interpretation; this is especially true on the subject of weather where the recipient is required to have prior forms of fundamental understanding towards the natural occurring phenomenon and its effects. This study facilitates the learning of complex weather phenomena for children using a unique educational approach using mobile technology. The initiative runs under Singapore's National Weather Study Project (NWSP), which already operates a network of mini weather stations in schools across the state to promote environmental awareness and support dynamic interactions with real time data. Its data is accessible via Web, Microsoft SensorMap and Google Earth interfaces. IWIS, an application for the recent Google Android mobile platform taps onto the fusion of mapping and the weather project server's data to present to children accessible local multi-variate weather data depicted using visual metaphors and propagates the development of mobile learning applications in the imminent future.
KW - Information visualization
KW - Knowledge management
KW - Mobile learning
KW - Visual cognition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70450242810&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1613858.1613915
DO - 10.1145/1613858.1613915
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:70450242810
SN - 9781605582818
T3 - MobileHCI09 - The 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
BT - MobileHCI09 - Living in a world as colorful as you
T2 - Living in a world as colorful as you - 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2009
Y2 - 15 September 2009 through 18 September 2009
ER -