Get the bees away from the hive: Balancing visual focus on devices in mobile learning
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Get the bees away from the hive : Balancing visual focus on devices in mobile learning. / Eliasson, Johan; Spikol, Daniel; Pargman, Teresa Cerratto; Ramberg, Robert.
Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2010. 2010. p. 77-84 (Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2010).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Get the bees away from the hive
T2 - IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2010
AU - Eliasson, Johan
AU - Spikol, Daniel
AU - Pargman, Teresa Cerratto
AU - Ramberg, Robert
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - A common picture from studies on mobile learning is a group of students standing somewhere outdoors around a mobile device "like bees around the hive". This paper questions the design of learning activities that lead learners to spend time focusing on the device at the expense of interacting with other learners while exploring the outdoor environment. We approach the question in relation to a field trial we have conducted on geometry for middle school students. The objective of the trial was to find out, from an interaction design perspective, how to help users to balance their attention on the device and the outdoor physical environment. We found that the careful design of pedagogical activities and the redesign of mobile devices, to have different roles and to function as tools within the activity, can serve to balance focus between devices and the outdoors environment.
AB - A common picture from studies on mobile learning is a group of students standing somewhere outdoors around a mobile device "like bees around the hive". This paper questions the design of learning activities that lead learners to spend time focusing on the device at the expense of interacting with other learners while exploring the outdoor environment. We approach the question in relation to a field trial we have conducted on geometry for middle school students. The objective of the trial was to find out, from an interaction design perspective, how to help users to balance their attention on the device and the outdoor physical environment. We found that the careful design of pedagogical activities and the redesign of mobile devices, to have different roles and to function as tools within the activity, can serve to balance focus between devices and the outdoors environment.
KW - Co-present
KW - Device focus
KW - Mobile learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84860747449&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:84860747449
SN - 9789728924997
T3 - Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2010
SP - 77
EP - 84
BT - Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2010
Y2 - 19 March 2010 through 21 March 2010
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