Aug 25 - Bollen et al, PDAs as Input Devices in Brainstorming and Creative Discussions

Lars Bollen, Guillermo Juarez, Micha Westermann, H. Ulrich Hoppe. PDAs as Input Devices in Brainstorming and Creative Discussions. University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany {bollen, juarez, mailto:hoppe%7D@collide.info
Proceedings: Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education. WMUTE 2006

The trendy notion of “mobile learning” has different connotations:
On the one hand, it can be understood as “learning on the move” – often referred to as “learning any time anywhere”.
Of course this interpretation relies on specific kinds of technological enabling, but the definition aims at the general setting of learning activities. Particularly, it includes informal learning settings (cf. [1]).
A second interpretation sees mobile learning somewhat more pragmatically as learning with mobile devices. This may include formal learning in the classroom.

The questionnaires that were filled out ranked the Mobile Notes architecture on a “System Usability Scale” [10]. The average result was 76.4/100 with the lowest and highest values being 52.5/100 and 90/100 respectively. In addition to this positive result concerning the general usability of the system, we still identified some minor difficulties in using the system

References that I would like to read further in the future:
[10] J. Brooke, System Usability Scale, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1986.
http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~soen357_4/SUS-paper.pdf, visited in July 2006.