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Ubiquitous Geography Learning Smartphone System for 1st Year Junior High Students in Taiwan

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Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering

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In recent years, ubiquitous learning becomes more and more popular. Geography learning can be adapted into smart phone platform to be very useful learning system. Junior high school students can assess the smartphone to study geography in Taiwan. With simple test items, the system will generate individual learning profile and test analysis report for students.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the NSC for funding this research under grants NSC-97-2511-S-032-006.

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  1. 707, Sec.2, WuFu Rd, Hsinchu, 30012, Taiwan, People’s Republic of China

    Wen-Chih Chang, Ming-Ren Jheng & Shih-Wei Wu

  2. 152, Sec. 3, Beishen Rd, Shenkeng dist, New Taipei City, 222, Taiwan, People’s Republic of China

    Hsuan-Che Yang

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science & and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. Dept of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR

    Joseph Kee-Yin Ng

  3. Humanitas College, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Hwa-Young Jeong

  4. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

    Borgy Waluyo

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Chang, WC., Yang, HC., Jheng, MR., Wu, SW. (2013). Ubiquitous Geography Learning Smartphone System for 1st Year Junior High Students in Taiwan. In: Park, J., Ng, JY., Jeong, HY., Waluyo, B. (eds) Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 240. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6738-6_80

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