Location-based Mobile Application Creator creating educational mobile scavenger hunts

Johanna Pirker, Christian Gütl, Patrick Weiner, Victor Manuel Garcia-Barrios, Melanie Tomintz

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Abstract

Using mobile devices for entertainment, knowledge transfer, and learning has been an important development in recent years. The use of mobile games as pedagogical tools has also become more and more popular. The mobility of the devices can enhance applications with location-based information. Why not combine these aspects to create mobile, location-based learning games to make users aware of their environment? In this paper we introduce an online tool for easily creating such an application, which combines teaching, gaming, and location-based information. First, we briefly present the Location-based Mobile Application Creator (LMAC), a framework for creating different mobile location-aware applications. Then, we introduce an application created with LMAC in more detail: a game-based scavenger hunt for children enabling them to learn facts about the city of Graz, Austria. Similar to a traditional scavenger hunt, users are able to gather geo-referenced information with mobile phones and learn about the environment in a playful way. With LMAC, teachers can easily create individual scavenger hunts adapted to the current subject matter.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2014 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning, IMCL 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages160-164
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479947423
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jan 2015
Event2014 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning: IMCL 2014 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Duration: 13 Nov 201414 Nov 2014

Conference

Conference2014 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning
Abbreviated titleIMCL 2014
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityThessaloniki
Period13/11/1414/11/14

Keywords

  • gamified scavenger hunt
  • location-based mobile app
  • mobile learning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Education
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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