WMUTE 2010 - 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2010)

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Category WMUTE 2010

Deadline: October 19, 2009 | Date: April 12, 2010

Venue/Country: Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Mobile Social Media for Learning and Education

in Formal and Informal Settings

April 12-16, 2010 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

hosted by National Central University (Taiwan)

http://wmute2010.cl.ncu.edu.tw/

(IEEE Computer Society Sponsorship solicited)

General Conference Chairs:

Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan

Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece

Program Chairs:

Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Roy Pea, Stanford University, USA

Chen-Chung Liu, National Central University, Taiwan

Call for Papers

Based on shared research interests between the two communities, IEEE WMUTE

(International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in

Education) and IEEE DIGITEL (International Conference on Digital Game and

Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning) conference 2010 will be jointly held in

Kaohsiung Taiwan. Participants of both conferences will be able to interact

and exchange ideas which we hope can stimulate more exciting ideas for

future research.

The convergence of global adoption of smart phones integrating hi-quality

media capture devices and trends in social networking, participatory media

and cyber infrastructure provide remarkable opportunities for making mobile

social media integral to distributed learning environments. Social

networking and user-generated media like YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and

Flickr are moving beyond the stationary PC onto mobile devices like iPhone

and low-price netbook computers. Social applications are also becoming a new

communication and networking method in sectors such as business,

entertainment and education. We expect to see mobile social media,

incorporating video, photos, social networking and communication

capabilities to be one of the major new applications for the mobile web, and

we welcome contributions that help advance visions, technologies, research

and theories to better support learning and educational purposes.

Arguably the impact of mobile social media will be universal, augmenting

with distributed social media tools the face-to-face social interactions

that now enable learning and teaching interactions. Learners may tap social

networks and recommendations for learning in pursuit of their interests over

informal and formal settings. Students could learn from a broader universe

of user-generated content, beyond "prescribed" content provided by teachers

or textbooks. The mobile social network can potentially foster richer

parent-child interactions for learning, and enable different parent roles

supporting education, and more vibrant and productive interactions between

learning at school, home and neighborhood. In classroom settings, mobile

devices can enrich interactivity and inter-operability of digital expression

and potentially provide supervision and decision support for teachers. The

well-documented powers of informal learning in workplaces can be served well

with social mobile media. Therefore, WMUTE 2010 hopes to initiate a new line

of research and practice that highlights both social and technological

innovation in order to support and amalgamate contemporary social learning

theories. This theme-based conference will expose the results of current

research efforts in this field as well as identify future challenges and

research priorities. The scope of WMUTE 2010 will cover but not be limited

to:

* Mobile social media

* User experiences in mobile social media creation and collaboration

* Specific roles for video in mobile learning and working

* Theories and applications for modeling collaboration in mobile

environments

* Emerging mobile video development platforms and user interfaces

* Context-aware learning environments and mobile social media

applications

* Open educational resources for WMUTE

* Mobile video story-telling and communities

* Human-computer interaction aspects of technology-enriched classrooms

* Mobile and ubiquitous computing support for collaborative learning

* Mobile Web 2.0 applications for learning and teaching

* Learning scenarios with wireless sensor networks * Small-screen

interface design

* Mobile collaborative learning systems

* Implementation of learning models exploiting one-to-one technology

* New devices for learning and instruction

* Game-based learning with ubiquitous and one-to-one technologies

* Adaptive and adaptable learning environments using mobile and

ubiquitous devices

* Agent support for ubiquitous learning and one-to-one classroom

settings

* Architectures and infrastructures for one-to-one classroom settings

* Methods of interaction analysis in mobile and ubiquitous learning

scenarios

* Evaluation and evaluation methodologies for WMUTE

Submission deadline: September 26th, 2009, for all submissions

Submissions types:

Full papers: 8 pages

Short papers: 5 pages

Posters: 3 pages

Workshop proposals: 2 pages

Panel Proposals: 2 pages

Tutorial proposals: 2 pages