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Deploying a contextual-awareness Edutainment Service

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OSAmI-Commons project

OSAmI-Commons (Open Source Ambient Intelligence Commons) is an ITEA (Information Technology for European Advancement) program project

Main objective: Design and deploy an ambient-intelligence platform able to personalize itself dynamically according to the context

University of Vigo: Ambient Edutainment “personality”. E-learning service: lets the students access the platform

“personality” from every device they interact with during the day

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OSAmI Schema

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Edutainment

Edutainment= Education+ Entertainment

Meaning: embed lessons inside some form of entertainment Strategy to attract students toward education through

entertainment. We create an edutainment experience from a learning

element it considers appropriate for the student, according his/her learning interests, making the experience more entertaining

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Architecture

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Architecture elements I

Location server: Service developed by one consortium’s partner Manages a data base with user’s position Information provide by different devices

Rule service: Edutainment Client reports its location Subscribes to Location server to receive location information Trigger Event: user close to an edutainment enable computer Stores the information relative to the position within a course

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Architecture elements II

Edutainment Client: Activating the course player in the devices where it is deployed The user presence triggers the system The Rule Service offers start the course at the previous state stored

Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS): Adapting the course to the user profile The ITS decides which option displays using the user profile and the

adaptative rules defined in the course Same course ≠ different displays for ≠ kinds of students

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Courses adaptation

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