A Pilot Study on 3G Mobile Phone and Two Dimension Barcode in Classroom Communication and Support System

Mobile phone is one of the devices that attracted and widely used among people especially adolescent. Recently in Japan, two dimensional bar code or quick response (QR) code was introduced as a novel accessible media. It provides users to speedily enter any Web addresses into the phones using integrated mega pixel cameras. This paper will present the development of a system that combines mobile Internet technology with a new viewpoint for the QR code usage in education. This pilot study has been conducted over an intensive lecture and the qualitative result will be used to design more usable system in the upcoming semester.