Workshop on Designing and Facilitating Educational Location-based Applications

Call for Papers

The workshop on Designing and Facilitating Educational Location-based Applications (DELbA 2020) will be organized as part of the EC-TEL 2020 conference and will be held online on September 15th 2020.

Introduction

Mobile devices and mobile internet are the prerequisites for location-based apps, which interpret the current location for providing position-sensitive information. In form of games, location-based apps are extremely popular. For example, 2013 Ingress generated a hype that was surpassed by 2016 Pokémon GO with an even larger player base. Other forms of location-based apps include AR browsers like Wikitude and digital tour apps like ARIS or PlayVisit. From a didactical perspective, location-based apps have a number of characteristics that make their use as learning tools very appealing: location-based apps guide learners to real objects on location and supplement these objects with information to be learned. For example, the contiguity principle is one of the principles of Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning supported: learning effects are reinforced by the temporal and/or spatial combination of object and information. Further principles of multimedia learning, such as signaling (i.e. the insertion of additional clues) can also be implemented with the help of location-based apps. Additionally, location-based apps may also serve as social interaction triggers for collaborative learning settings, such as the joint development of learning content in groups or for making decisions and achieving goals as a team.

This workshop addresses the benefits of location-based apps for educational purposes in general and is a continuation of workshops held in Vienna, Austria at IFIP-ICEC 2016 and in Arequipa, Peru at IFIP-ICEC/JCSG 2019. Whereas the previous workshops focused on serious location-based games, this workshop intends to foster a more general discourse on the specific contexts in which location-based apps are most valuable learning tools, based on the debate of mobile and context-based learning. Further, we would like to outline design guidelines that ensure a balance between educational purpose and technical content when developing and using location-based apps. Also, inclusive design plays a key role in enabling users with disabilities to location-based app experiences.

Thus, the workshop aims at exploiting the undisputed potential of ELAs by

  • bringing together stakeholders from the research community to share their insights
    • on barriers and opportunities to take up
    • on presenting application and development of ELAs and their integration in formal and informal education
  • discussing how the identified challenges can be jointly addressed, and what we can learn from each other’s experiences.

Workshop topics

Topics of interest regarding educational location-based apps (ELAs) include, but are not limited to:

  • Design frameworks for ELAs
  • Lessons learnt from ELA usages
  • Reuse of entertainment location-based games in serious application contexts
  • Characterization of ELA application contexts
  • Characterization of ELA applications
  • Design of inclusive ELAs
  • Guidelines for the design of didactic scenarios using ELAs
  • Assessment of didactic scenarios using ELAs and integration into existing learning curricula and learning infrastructure
  • Case studies of ELAs
  • Case studies of ELA application fields, such as urban planning
  • Content provision for ELAs
  • Analyses of location-based game mechanics and their transfer to game-based ELAs
  • Technical infrastructure for ELAs
  • Multi-learner scenarios and their interaction rules
  • Gamification of ELAs
  • Learning patterns in ELA-driven social contexts
  • Ethical issues of ELA games

All submissions will undergo a thorough peer-review process by the workshop program committee. At least one author of each accepted submission has to register and present at the ECTEL 2020 workshop due to the ECTEL 2020 conference and workshop regulation rules. All accepted submissions shall be published as workshop proceedings with CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Selected submissions will be invited to submit an extended version to an article collection about Serious Location-based Games of Frontiers in Education.

Submission Information

Papers must be submitted in the Springer LNCS format. All submissions must be written in English and be submitted via EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=delba2020 ). As submissions are either short papers (5-9 pages) or long papers (10-12 pages) welcomed. Attendance at the workshop is certainly also possible without submitting an own submission, however requires registration being subject to a fee according to the ECTEL 2020 conference and workshop regulation rules.

Important Dates

  • Workshop paper submission deadline: July 31st July 15th, 2020
  • Workshop paper submission acceptance notification: July 30th, 2020
  • Early-bird Registration: August 14th, 2020
  • Camera-ready deadline for paper submissions: August 31st, 2020
  • Workshop Date: September 15th, 2020
  • Technical instructions to join the workshop online and a detailed schedule will be made available here on September 8th, 2020

Access to the Online Workshop

Zoom

https://zoom.us/j/97854763708?pwd=bDdZbFlLMmc3MDdnZ1plS2Y5WlpBQT09

We will open this  session at 13:00 for testing and joining, the workshop itself starts at 13:30 on Tuesday, 

Slack

delba2020.slack.com

Slack is used for written and persistent communication during the presentations and their discussion and in the group activities.

Proceedings

The proceedings of the workshop have been published with CEUR -WS and are available online as CEUR-WS Vol. 2685.

 

Schedule

Starting time

Activity

1:30
Introduction
 

Session 1: Location-based Games: 21st Century Skills and Didactic History (Chair: Heinrich Söbke)

  1. Sampsa Rauti, Samuli Laato, and Tarja Pietarinen:
    Learning Social Skills and Acquiring Social Capital through Pervasive Gaming
  2. Xavier Fonseca, Stephan Lukosch, and Frances Brazier:
    Secrets of the South: A Location-based Game for the Development of 21st Century Social Skills and Promotion of Social Interaction
  3. Peter Mozelius, Jimmy Jaldemark, and Andreas Hellerstedt:
    Aristotle, Comenius, Dewey, Plato and Pokémon GO: Walking with Location-based Games in the Footsteps of Didactic Giants
 

Session 2: Didactic Designs for Educational Location-based Apps (Chair: Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge)

  1. Mariano Velamazán, Patricia Santos, and Davinia Hernández-Leo:
    Collaborative educational location-based activities with no teacher supervision: Design Implications
  2. Mario Wolf, Florian Wehking, Heinrich Söbke, and Jörg Londong:
    Location-based Apps in Environmental Engineering Higher Education
  3. Ioana Andreea Stefan, Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Antoniu Stefan, and Ancuta Florentina Gheorge:
    Designing and Implementing a Gamified Educational Location-based Application for Raising Awareness on Sustainability Issues Among Students

3:00

Break (30 min)

3:30

Session 3: Learning and Virtualization of Location-based Apps (Chair: Jimmy Jaldemark)

  1. Moritz Quandt, David Hippert, Thies Beinke, and Michael Freitag:
    User-Centered Evaluation of the Learning Effects in the Use of a 3D Gesture Control for a Mobile Location-Based Augmented Reality Solution for Maintenance
  2. Christian Springer, Florian Wehking, Mario Wolf, and Heinrich Söbke:
    Virtualization of Virtual Field Trips

4:00

Sesion 4: Common Activities

Group formation
  • for follow up working groups
  • elevator pitch for each working group initiators
  • (working group initiators recruited from paper submitters and organizers of the workshop)
  • followed by participants choice to join a group,
  • groups are encouraged to work on the topic in out-of-workshop activities
Group work

4:40

Session 5: Presentation of Group Work Results

4:55

Wrap up, Outlook and Closing

5:00
End of Workshop

Organizers

Heinrich Söbke

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

Heinrich Söbke is a research associate at the Bauhaus-Institute for Infrastructure Solutions (b.is) (Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany). His research area is educational technology, thus he designed a serious game platform for the teaching of building physics in his dissertation. Beyond serious games, his research focuses on gamification, mixed reality and location-based apps in education.

Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

Royal Institute of Technology, Södertälje, Sweden and Bremer Institut fur Produktion und Logistik (BIBA) an der Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge is associate professor in production logistics at the Södertälje campus of KTH, Sweden. She holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Bremen. In 2003 she joined BIBA (Bremer institute für Produktion und Logistik), where she is head of the BIBA Gaming Lab. Her two main research topics are ICT in logistics (including CPS) and engineering education. Jannicke is member of several boards and has authored 250+ papers.

Mario Wolf 

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

Mario Wolf (M.Sc.) is a research associate with the Bauhaus-Institute for Infrastructure Solutions (b.is) at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Having studied urbanism, he is currently working in an interdisciplinary team on the BMBF research project AuCity 2, investigating the potentials of AR and location-based applications in higher education for spatial planning.

Florian Wehking

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

Florian Wehking is an artistic associate with the Bauhaus-Institute for Infrastructure Solutions (b.is) at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Based on his studies of visual communication and his freelance work as a filmmaker and designer, he is currently researching the potentials of mixed reality and in particular of location-based and 360° technologies in university teaching of civil engineering within an initiative to improve teaching through digitalization.

Program Committee

  • Jeferson Arango Lopez (Universidad de Caldas, Colombia)
  • Thomas Bröker (TH Nuremberg, Germany)
  • Annamaria Cacchione (Istituto Nazionale di Documentazione, Innovazione e Ricerca Educativa, Italy)
  • Trina Julian Edwards (Metro Nashville Virtual School, United States)
  • David Gagnon (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
  • Yiannis Georgiou (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
  • Mark Gaved (The Open University, United Kingdom)
  • Jimmy Jaldemark (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
  • Peter Mozelius (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
  • Ekaterina Pechenkina (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
  • Anton Nijholt (TU Enschede, Netherlands)
  • Ioana Andreea Stefan (Advanced Technology Systems, Targoviste, Romania)

Contact Information

For further information about the workshop contact Heinrich Söbke: heinrich.soebke(aat)uni-weimar.de.