Games are increasingly being used as educational tools, in part because they are presumed to enhance student motivation. We look at student motivation in games from the viewpoint o...
Amy Ogan, Vincent Aleven, Julia Kim, Christopher J...
Social annotation systems such as SparTag.us and del.icio.us have been designed to encourage individual reading and marking behaviors that, when shared, accumulate to build collect...
Les Nelson, Gregorio Convertino, Peter Pirolli, Li...
We present two studies of participatory sensing in the wild, in which groups of young people used sensors to collect environmental data along with contextual information such as p...
In recent years, a number of low-cost laptops have been created for children’s education, most notably the XO, developed by One Laptop per Child to embody principles of construc...
Ruy Cervantes, Mark Warschauer, Bonnie A. Nardi, N...
Mobile devices are currently difficult to customize for the usability needs of elderly users. The elderly are instead referred to specially designed “senior phones” or softwar...