Designing dynamic English: A creative reading system in a context-aware fitness centre using a smart phone and QR codes

Digital Creativity

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 169-186

  Liu, Gi Zen ^a   Hwang, Gwo Jen ^b   Kuo, Yu Ling ^a   Lee, Chun Yi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

context aware; Fitness English; human computer interface; interactive learning environments; QR code; reading; smart phone

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; MOBILE DEVICES; SMARTPHONES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; USER INTERFACES;

CONTEXT-AWARE; FITNESS ENGLISH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; QR CODES; READING;

HEALTH;

EID: 84903304198     PISSN: 14626268     EISSN: 17443806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2013.836110     Document Type: Article

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