QS Mobile 12-14 September 2012, Summer School 2012, Rome, ITALY Mobile-QS Flavio Fontana, Enrico...

QS Mobile 12-14 September 2012, Summer School 2012, Rome, ITALY QS Mobile 12-14 September 2012, Summer School 2012, Rome, ITALY

Mobile-QS

Flavio Fontana, Enrico Cosimi, Giangiacomo Ponzo

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected] ENEA Usability & Media Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Rome, Italy

Usability & Media Laboratory

An e-Learning Platform for H-DATA



Index

• Usability & Media LAB introduction;• e-Learning Strategy;• e-Learning Technology;• R&D Projects and Mobile Scenario;• Mobile-QS design;• Validation and Usability testing;• Conclusions and future works.



The ENEA Usability & Media Lab is an experienced experts and developers group in web applications, portals, multimedia database design, distributed systems and e-learning platforms. The Usability & Media Lab organizes usability testing sessions since 1992.The laboratory issue is to improve the effectiveness, the efficiency and the users systems satisfaction by advanced methods of usability testing and design.

ENEA, Usability & Media LABCasaccia Research Center, Rome, Italy


e-Learning Strategy

The e-learning strategy to the ULAB is to implement innovative systems to search, in virtual e-learning environment, heterogeneous multimedia contents. The mobile application, named Mobile Query System (Mobile-QS) is based on Web 2.0 technology to inquiry the e-learning platform database with an advanced mobile interface. Mobile-QS is a new virtual environment to extend the fruition in a mobile context both e-learning objects and videos of lectures and seminars for remote classrooms. The easy to use of Mobile-QS supports the students and teachers to formulate simple and complex queries with icons and visual objects. The Usability Laboratory, ENEA Research Centre, has implemented Mobile-QS for MATRIX platform, a new virtual environment, to extend the fruition of the e-learning contents in a mobile context using smart-phones and tablets. The experimentation has been done to study, between the users, the effectiveness and satisfaction of the innovative educational tools.Mobile-QS has been implemented to the MATS Project to improve the e-learning technology used.


Main Concepts

First dimension: distance teachingFirst dimension: distance teaching

We started by postulating that the universe of instruction consistedWe started by postulating that the universe of instruction consisted of two families of teaching behaviors, which we referredof two families of teaching behaviors, which we referred

to as “to as “contiguous teachingcontiguous teaching” and “” and “distance teachingdistance teaching”.”.

Second dimension: Second dimension: learner autonomylearner autonomy and and independent studyindependent study

Michael G. Moore University of WisconsinMichael G. Moore University of Wisconsin


e-Learning Technology

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Enea ODL: the first e-learning project of the Ulab in the ENEA. Since the 1999 this service is still on-line with thousands of registered users (ED-MEDIA2002);

The Matrix e-Learning Platform: a new generation of on-line e-learning framework that integrates authoring tool, user management, content management and a questioners module

(ED-MEDIA2004);

The Matrix Multi Platform (MMP): an innovative meta platform to integrate heterogeneous and distributed e-learning contents (E-LEARN2007);

The VW-3D: the prototypal web application to make the end-user experience a virtual 3D campus based real learning objects (E-LEARN 2005, ED-MEDIA 2007, E-LEARN 2010, ED-MEDIA 2011).


Mobile-QS Motivations

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The issue has been to implement a new web application that with a easy to use interface makes the fruition of remote lessons possible in low standard technological contexts

The objectives were:• to obtain an easy to use online e-learning courses management with the possibility to organize the video lessons in courses, sessions and interviews in a virtual environment;

• to design simple web pages where video, slide presentation, and asynchronous chat are displayed and synchronized with the real time event and also in a offline mode;• to extend the use of the system in a mobile scenario with new experiences.


• Production and dissemination of effective media information: e.g. printed brochures, flyers and participation to national TV/radio programs dealing with renewable resources, environments, international cooperation; • Participation at trade fairs, workshops, suitable conferences;• Organization of a workshop at an international conference on the MATS project at the end of the project; • Creation of the consortium brand;• Links to other ongoing project (OPTS, “Paving the Way for MSP”, etc.) .

Dissemination Strategy

• Drawing of a newsletter, issued every 4 months and sent to main stakeholders and interested actors (general public will be able to subscribe to the newsletter through the website);

• Organization of media events such as press conferences, exhibitions or information days, (for example on the occasion of a project meeting, of a milestones achievement or of an international event/initiative like the EU Sustainable Energy Europe Week – EUSEW );

To organise an e-learning programin a real scenario

To disseminate Information & Knowledgeabout CSP (MATS Project) by means of

Mobile e-Learning


Phase 1 - Work Plan

Mobile-QS Workplan 1 2Action 1 Internal Architecture definition functionality and modules;

Action 2

3

Technical specification and functionality; User Requirements analysis, information and contents, search engine definition;

Action 3 Mobile-QS Design and implementation 5

Action 4 6

Validation and Usability Testing

1


Mobile Scenario

Personal DB

Central DB

Advanced Visual Interface - AVI

Courses

MATRIX

CORESYS

Object Videos

MobileLesson 11

Object

My Virtual Space

My Real Space

My Mobile Virtual Space

Mobile-QS (VMS –VCMS)Synchronous Lesson Realtime

Mobile-QS (VMS –VCMS)

Asynchronous Lesson

WiFi Area


Mobile Scenario

Internet network

Multimedia Class Room

Multimedia Repository

Streaming Servers

End User (Home, Office, etc.),Expert

Remote access via modem 56 kps

Global Multimedia Specifications

Synchronous/Asynchronous Classrom Systems

Internet network

Multimedia Class Room

1 Gbs / 10-100 Gbs 1 -100 Mps

Mobile-QSMobile-QS Mobile

Video Camera


Classroom & Mobile Interaction

The didactic classroom is equipped with the following devices:

1 Workstation (real time recording); 2 Server (streaming audio/video); 1 notebook, it is used by the speaker and it has the Slidetool (Java ENEA Software); 2/3 videocamera; 1 mixer audio (the audio input management); 1 mixer video (different video sources management); 2 radio-microphones; 1 projector (to visualise the speaker's slides) and a wide screen or 55” LED TV; 1 Smart White Board or LED Touch WhiteBoard 80’’.

The remote multimedia classrooms have:

1 Personal Computer (S.O. Windows XP/2007); Internet Explorer 7.0 or sup.;

Flash 9 or Real ONE Player basic (free plug-in, etc.), MP4 Videos; Broadband Internet connection as ADSL over 2 MBits;

Stereo Speakers.


Classroom & Mobile Interaction

ExternalTeaching

OtherTeachers

MobileDidactical

Organisation

MobileInteraction

ande-learning

Otherstudents


Mobile Real Scenario

ISS Portal forDepleted Uranium

HD - Full HD Resolution


Mobile Real Scenario

Cyber Enterprise for Solar ThermodynamicApplication


General Architecture


DB

PORTAL

Favourite Queries

Internal Architecture

Result Display

IconsQuery Manager

Icon Editor Query Generator Query Executor

User Data Log in/out

Mobile - QS


Mobile-QS

The main modules of QS-Mobile are: • Query System (QS), it manages the queries and its related web pages and databases;

• Mobile Video Conference Module (MVCM), this module manages the users communication by means of a flash open source video streaming conference server;

• Learning Object Module (LOM), this module manages the e-learning objects (courses and multimedia), it manages the objects, in a e-catalogue, with a metadata descriptor that defines the minimum data set (MDS) of the data collection form (Card);

• Mobile Visual Interface (MVI), this module manages, by means of a visual representation, the visualization of the e-learning data by functional interactive e-learning objects and the data retrieved from the VCM module;

• User Management Module (UMM), it manages the user profiling in term of personal data and query collections. This module guarantees the possibility to configure an user area for each registered user.

MODULES


Mobile-QS

• Web Based Document Management System (WBDMS), this module manages the documentation of the courses in relation to the end-user profile and his working-group;

• News, manages the news areas and the database through a specific form;

• Newsletter, it manages a newsletter with an integrated authoring tool. Moreover, a specific web site has been designed to collect the newsletter production.

• Conference & Workshop, this module manages and selects information about the events;

• Registration and Communication, this module manages the user-login/registration, and network services towards the end-users;

• Home page, manages the presentation of the project;

• Search engine, finds the words, keywords, tags in the text with a complex Ranking;

• Calendar, manages calendar of the internet synchronous lessons;

• Contacts, manages persons of the organization;

Additional MODULES


Homepage


e-Learning: MATRIX

LMS

Learning Management

Systems

Authoring Tool

Index


Mobile-QS

VMS – Video Management Systems


Mobile-QS Interface

VideoArea

PresentationArea


Mobile-QS

Real – Time Virtual Real – Time Virtual TeachingTeaching

3D Virtual ObjectReal Scena

Web Cam / HD Video Camera


Mobile-QS

3D3D

3D3D


Mobile-QS

iPhone 3 GS

iPhone 4S

Motorola RAZR V,Android


Hardware & Software

SERVER BACKUP


Mobile-QS

Using SmartphonesUsing Smartphones


Mobile-QS

Mobile-QSMobile-QSHomepageHomepageMain MenuMain Menu

Mobile-QSMobile-QS

Simple SearchSimple SearchResult Display and Course Result Display and Course

CARDsCARDs


Mobile-QS

Mobile-QSMobile-QS

Simple SearchSimple SearchVideo Lessons and CARDsVideo Lessons and CARDs

Mobile-QSMobile-QS

Lesson InterfaceLesson Interface


Mobile-QS

Mobile-QSMobile-QS

Slide presentationSlide presentation

Mobile-QSMobile-QS

VideoVideo


General Course


Logistics and Infrastructure

Health and Safety e-Learning and

training Centre’s of excellence

Provision of skilled personnel Standards, laws and certifications

Mobile infrastructure and applications

Airport, Helicopter andother transport

and accommodation .. Provision of port facilities

Manufacture and installation of anchors and platforms

Economy and Costs evaluation

Flexible and adaptableRoads

Transports andinnovative vehicles

Provision of installation and maintenance vessels

Grid and TransmissionInfrastructure

Logistic models, optimization and

simulations environments

Cable laying and seabed grid infrastructure

Networks (Internet)ICTs and Web based

management applications

Logistics and Infrastructure


Logistics & Infrastructure


References

Gerhard G. Et. al., Case Study:European Offshore Wind Farms - A Survey to analyse Experiences and Lessons Learnt by Developers of Offshore Wind Farms, Deutsche WindGuard GmbH).

Musial W., NREL, Bonnie Ram, Energetics, Large-Scale Offshore Wind Power in the United States, ASSESSMENT OF OPPORTUNITIES AND BARRIERS, September 2010.

Edwards I, Overcoming Challenges for the Offshore Wind Industry and Learning from the Oil and Gas Industry, The Green House, Forrest Estate Dalry, Castle Douglas, DG7 3XS SCOTLAND, UK, Feburary 2011.

Wilburn David R., Wind Energy in the United States and Materials Required for the Land-Based Wind Turbine Industry From 2010 Through 2030, Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5036U.S. Department of the Interior - U.S. Geological Survey, 2011.

Cesari F., Siti delle installazione Eoliche Offhore, University of Bologna, Italy, 2010

Other


Mobile-QS

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Visual InterfaceModulesObjects

SlidesMultimedia

Query systemMenu

Website layout

Usability Test Result


Mobile-QS

Conclusions and future works The system has confirmed that a mobile advanced visual representation is really easier to use for large end-user groups. As future features it is planned to provide a completely modular architecture (to add functions easily), to migrate all modules in an unique mobile virtual environment. The system manages 220 courses and over 200 h of video lecturers (2012).

The next step is to manage a similar platform that can generate contemporarily video lesson for different devices with personalized configurations. New virtual objects and new mobile applications for iPad e iPhone.

The Mobile-QS experience will be extended towards other application domains to provide cooperative works, interactive and advanced simulation environments, the compatibility with standards as SCORM data structures has to be completed. The globalization of this architecture is fundamental to make more usable and users accepted. To design an innovative remote control room to manage with IPs Cameras remote classrooms and their local devices (with-board, classroom servers, etc.).

The aim is to make more information available in a 3D structure, WEB 3D oriented, to test the fruition velocity and efficiency of this alternative interface by generic users.


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