A lightweight mobile quiz application with support for multimedia content

Author

Schön, Daniel ; Kopf, Stephan ; Effelsberg, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. IV, Univ. of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

134

Lastpage

139

Abstract

In this paper, we present a lightweight, media-supporting quiz application for mobile devices. The idea is to use the students´ own smartphones as voting devices and provide a quiz administration module which is integrated into the existing university´s e-learning platform. For establishing the link between the devices and the platform we use dynamically generated Quick Response (QR) codes. The quiz is implemented as a web application, also providing the use of media content such as pictures and videos. We briefly evaluate our approach with respect to usability for students and lecturers, limits of the mobile browser technology and the QR code, and the impact on the university´s network infrastructure.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; mobile computing; mobile handsets; multimedia computing; smart phones; QR code; Web application; dynamically generated quick response codes; lecturer usability; lightweight media-supporting mobile quiz application; mobile browser technology; mobile devices; multimedia content; quiz administration module; student smartphones; student usability; university e-learning platform; university network infrastructure; voting devices; Browsers; Educational institutions; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Multimedia communication; Videos;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Learning and e-Technologies in Education (ICEEE), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lodz

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1679-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICeLeTE.2012.6333407

Filename

6333407