Papers of the week

Well, well. It's snowing!!!!!!!!

This week I attended a module about Research, although the texts were about Mobile TV. Very interesting for my research. In general, people have an idea that mobile TV isn't for learning content only for Entertainment (games, sports and adult content). Mobile TV is a way to "kill the time". So, users face this new media as a way to waste time. Anyway, I think to insert educational content on mobile is a question of time, maybe we have to develop softwares that will attend the necessities of the learner. If they don't like to watch educational content we can provide the podcast and test new ways to turn out to be users interested on video. How? Well, a lot of research have been doing in this field, including mine :)

Benford, S., D. Rowland, M. Flintham, A. Drozd, R. Hull, J. Reid, J. Morrison & K. Facer. (2005) Life on the edge: supporting collaboration in location-based experiences. CHI 2005 (April 2-7, Portland, Oregon, USA). This paper describes a location-based game in a school. Very interesting :).


Carlsson, Christer & Pirkko Walden. 2007. Mobile TV: to live or die by content. In Proceedings of 4th ICSS, pp. 1 –9. This describes the last surveys in the field and highlight where and who are using mobile phones.


O’Hara, Kenton, April Slayden Mitchell & Alex Vorbau. (2007). Consuming Video on Mobile Devices. In Proceedings of CHI 2007, pp. 857 – 866. Very well-written. Focus on the behaviour of users related to video on mobile devices.

See you soon :)