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Towards Context-Aware Classrooms: Lessons Learnt from the ACTUA Project

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Context-aware classrooms augment traditional classrooms with unprecedented sensing and communication capabilities to monitor and analyse large amounts of contextual data. Enriching classrooms with these data opens up new opportunities to enhance the learning experience in education centres. However, implementing and deploying context-aware classrooms is not straightforward. This article describes the challenges addressed by the ACTUA project, which aims to advance the development of context-aware classrooms in primary schools.

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This research has been supported by Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) with grant 2020PANDE00103 (ACTUA) and by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Gobierno de España (Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional -FEDER-, European Union) under the research grant PID2021-127409OB-C33 CONDOR, and by AGAUR 2021SGR-00111: “ASCLEPIUS: Smart Technology for Smart Healthcare”.

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Batista, E., Martínez-Ballesté, A., Rosell-Llompart, J., Solanas, A. (2024). Towards Context-Aware Classrooms: Lessons Learnt from the ACTUA Project. In: Bellotti, F., et al. Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society. ApplePies 2023. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1110. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48121-5_57

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