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International Conference on Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment

International Conference on Serious Games

Edutainment 2012, GameDays 2012: E-Learning and Games for Training, Education, Health and Sports pp 111–120Cite as

Mobile Worlds: Mobile Gaming and Learning?

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A mobility shift in the usage of media is characterizing today’s society and influences the way people communicate, amuse and learn. In this paper a basic correlation between mobile gaming and mobile learning is explored. Therefore a quantitative study among 597 students, as the most intense user of mobile media, was conducted. The results of the study show that mobile gamers are capable of a broader and more sophisticated range of activities regarding their mobile phone usage. Significant differences can be stated for the search of information, the organization of everyday life, the creative and entertaining usage, as well as the educational applications.

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  1. Institute for Media Studies, Department of Media Education and Empirical Media Research, University of Paderborn, Germany

    Sonja Ganguin

  2. Institute for Media Studies, Department of Media Economics, University of Paderborn, Germany

    Anna Hoblitz

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  1. Multimedia Communications Lab – KOM, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Rundeturmstr. 10, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  2. Media Education and Visualization Group, University of Education, 88250, Weingarten, Germany

    Wolfgang Müller

  3. Fraunhofer Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD, Joachim-Jungius-Str. 11, 18059, Rostock, Germany

    Bodo Urban

  4. Human Sciences, Sport Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Magdalenenstr. 27, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany

    Josef Wiemeyer

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Ganguin, S., Hoblitz, A. (2012). Mobile Worlds: Mobile Gaming and Learning?. In: Göbel, S., Müller, W., Urban, B., Wiemeyer, J. (eds) E-Learning and Games for Training, Education, Health and Sports. Edutainment GameDays 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7516. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33466-5_12

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