Paper Info
Title
Tools for Students Doing Mobile Fieldwork
Abstract
Students are not always sitting at their desk but are also out in the world. In a university course teaching ethnography and design students were out in the field making observations and collecting data. We gave them access to a wiki, which they used to upload field notes and material as a support for collaboration. In this paper we present three tools we built and deployed to aid the students when in field and when collaborating. The first is a mobile tool used to gather data: a program running on the students’ mobile phones let them take photos, record video and audio, and write simple text notes, which are automatically uploaded to the wiki. The second is an awareness tool that enables the students to quickly see what the others have done in the wiki. The third is a novel browser for the uploaded data, which relates objects by both time and location. We also talk about the experience from having students using the tools live during the course.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/WMUTE.2008.14
Beijing
Keywords
Field
DocType
simple text note,university course teaching ethnography,mobile tool,mobile fieldwork,mobile phone,uploaded data,awareness tool,field note,novel browser,record video,design student,cscw,educational technology,collaboration,search engines,mobile computing,computer science education,awareness,web,ethnography,ubicomp,mobile,computer science
Computer aided instruction,Computer-supported cooperative work,Computer science,Upload,Human–computer interaction,Data objects,Ubiquitous computing,Ethnography,Multimedia,Desk
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-3108-3
4
0.55
References 
Authors
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mattias Rost137822.31
Lars Erik Holmquist21369210.85