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Context-Aware Mobile Role Playing Game for Learning

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This book chapter discusses the research findings of a context-aware mobile role-playing game that can automatically generate personalized context-aware learning activities based on the students’ current locations and the surrounding learning objects and the knowledge it covered. Furthermore, the game can automatically create transition stories in between two learning activities. These stories give students immersive learning experiences and make them get engaged in doing learning activities.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the support of NSERC, iCORE, Xerox, and the research-related gift funding provided to the Learning Communities Project by Mr. Allan Markin.

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  1. School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Canada

    Chris Lu & Maiga Chang

  2. Faculty of Science and Technology, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada

    Kinshuk

  3. Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung First University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    Echo Huang & Ching-Wen Chen

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    Ronghuai Huang

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  3. Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Lu, C., Chang, M., Kinshuk, Huang, E., Chen, CW. (2014). Context-Aware Mobile Role Playing Game for Learning. In: Huang, R., Kinshuk, ., Chen, NS. (eds) The New Development of Technology Enhanced Learning. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38291-8_8

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