A Software Platform for Adaptive and Interactive Mobile Learning Service

Speaker:	Dr. Hoon CHOI
		Department of Computer Engineering
		Chungnam National University

Title:		"A Software Platform for Adaptive and Interactive Mobile
		 Learning Service"

Date:		Monday, 6 July, 2009

Time:		11:00am - 12 noon

Venue:		Room 3416 (via lifts 17/18), HKUST

Abstract:

The advancement in mobile technology has brought various network-based
information and business services to the developed societies. However,
major areas of the world still have little or no network infrastructure,
leaving the people in such areas without access to information, education,
and public services and excluding them from acquiring equal education and
securing their well-being. Recently, several attempts have been made to
provide the extremely underserved with mobile computing devices with
educational contents. Unfortunately, current technology in such projects
offers a limited amount of uniform content that is not adaptive to the
learner performance or individual learning capability. Also, mobile
technology to-date does not enable a community of mobile users to openly
create or exchange learning contents. In order to remedy the deficiencies
of the current mobile learning technology, the future mobile learning
device must be designed to function more intelligently, dynamically, and
adaptively. In this research, we propose a programmable open mobile
learning platform integrated with highly adaptive and interactive mobile
learning (AIMOL) service which is mainly designed for a poorly networked
environment. The proposed software platform is programmed to dynamically
assess the capability of the user and organize the most optimized learning
objects and sequences based on the user performance.


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Biography:

Hoon Choi received the B.S.E.E degree in computer engineering from the
Seoul National University, Korea in 1983 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
computer science from Duke University in 1990 and 1993, respectively under
the supervision of Kishor S. Trivedi. He was awarded an IBM Graduate
Fellowship during 1991-1993. Before joining the Chungnam National
University in 1996, he was a senior member of technical staff of
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea since 1983,
where he worked on LAN, broadband ISDN and high-speed network systems.

His research area includes the mobile, distributed computing. He has been
involved in several research projects on middleware, fault tolerant
systems, a fast election algorithm, mobile IP in cellular network, data
synchronization using SyncML and a software platform of the cellular phone
for wireless applications. He is currently interested in autonomic
computing and the system software for wearable computers.  Dr. Choi is a
senior member of the IEEE Computer Society.