Title :
Universal Access and Content Adaptation in Mobile Learning
Author :
Yang, Stephen J H ; Chen, Irene Y L
Author_Institution :
National Central Univ., Jhongli
Abstract :
Universal access is known as the concept of facilitating accesses to the desired data according to the varying capabilities and characteristics of users. Universal access aims to be capable of recognizing and responding to the presence of different context in a seamless, unobtrusive and often invisible way. To achieve this goal, two important issues need to be solved, they are context awareness and content adaptation. In this paper, context is referred to as contextual information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity where an entity can be a person, a place, a physical or computational object. The contextual information can be where and when the users are (time and space), as well as what the content are available nearby, and etc
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; mobile computing; content adaptation; context awareness; contextual information; data access; mobile learning; universal access; Bandwidth; Computer displays; Context awareness; Image resolution; Joining processes; Mobile computing; Physics computing; Portable computers; Videoconference; Web pages; Universal access; content adaptation;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2006. Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kerkrade
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2632-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2006.1652678