Mobile learning and commuting: contextual interview and design of mobile scenarios

  • Authors:
  • Eva Patricia Gil-Rodríguez;Pablo Rebaque-Rivas

  • Affiliations:
  • Learning Technologies Office, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Learning Technologies Office, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • USAB'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on HCI in work and learning, life and leisure: workgroup human-computer interaction and usability engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a case study on the design of mobile applications for on-line learning, based on the needs of its potential users. From the User-Centered Design (UCD) perspective and based on a qualitative approach, in-depth interviews have been held with students who carry out learning-related tasks in a commuting context, together with ethnographic observations of this context. The objective of this research was to understand the needs and requirements of students who learn on-line and who take advantage of their travel time to study or to carry out study-related tasks. Through the content analysis of the data gathered, the tasks carried out by students in a mobile context are contemplated, detecting their inconveniences and needs. From this analysis m-learning application scenarios have been built based on the potential users' requirements.