Context-awareness Learning Activity Generation and its Agents in a Mobile Educaitonal Game

Ubiquitous learning is an innovative approach that combines mobile learning and context-awareness, can be seen as kind of location-based services, first detects user’s location, surrounding context, and learning profile, and then provides the user learning materials accordingly. Game-based learning have become an emerging research topic and been proved that can increase users’ motivations and interests. In this paper, we present an ongoing project of constructing a context-awareness multi-agent-based mobile educational game for on-the-job training that can provide users a series of learning activities automatically and make them interact with specific objects in the real world. The game generates learning activity for the user based on the surrounding context and the chosen theme. The user can quickly get familiar with the new environment and the job relevant objects, policies, and flows while solving the learning activities in the game.

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