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Designing a Distributed Cooperative Data Substrate for Learners without Internet Access

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Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Smart Living, Learning, Well-being and Health, Art and Creativity (HCII 2022)

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The increased use of Internet-based tools in education can create a problematic situation for those without Internet access. In this paper, we propose a distributed cooperative data substrate (DCDS) that allows learners without Internet access to use digital learning tools on their mobile devices. DCDS combines delay-tolerant networking (DTN) mechanisms, Web 3.0 technologies such as blockchains and InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), and human computation to support reliable and secure data access in a decentralized manner.

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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 20H00622.

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  1. Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, 744, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

    Shin’ichi Konomi

  2. Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

    Xiangyuan Hu & Chenghao Gu

  3. Institute of Educational and Management Technologies, The Open University Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Doreen Mushi

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Konomi, S., Hu, X., Gu, C., Mushi, D. (2022). Designing a Distributed Cooperative Data Substrate for Learners without Internet Access. In: Streitz, N.A., Konomi, S. (eds) Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Smart Living, Learning, Well-being and Health, Art and Creativity. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13326. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05431-0_10

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