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Brenda Bannan and Jack Burbridge This chapter provides an overview of an applied research and development process for engineering smart city learning solutions that incorporates a user experience (UX) design and research approach that has been leveraged in an emergency…
Ekaterina Kutafina, Marko Jovanović, Klaus Kabino and Stephan M. Jonas Intensive development of e-learning methods still struggles with domains where feedback on manual and physical skills is necessary, for example, crafts or physiotherapy movements. Most of such training is currently…
Bibeg Limbu, Mikhail Fominykh, Roland Klemke, Marcus Specht Experts are imperative for supporting expertise development in apprentices but learning from them is difficult. In many cases, there are shortages of experts to train apprentices. To address this issue, we use…
Jessica J. Rajko Wearable technology is moving closer to and even into human bodies, effectively rendering it invisible. Coined by Mark Weiser (1999) as Invisible Computing, wearable technologies now “weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are…
Eva Mårell-Olsson, Thomas Mejtoft and Jenny Kinert Pupils with concentration disorders need an education that is adapted for them for fulfilling the goals of their education. They often need an adjustable learning environment with fewer distractions. Unfortunately, the public education…
Olivia Ojuroye and Adriana Wilde Electronic Textiles (e-textiles) have already proven their practical use in wearable garments, and are now also beginning to feature in non-wearable items, such as in furniture and shared surfaces inside a smart home or driverless…
John Taxler In this piece, we ask readers and authors to stand back from the achievements, actors and activities described in the book and look at the wider context and critical issues. These include, Firstly, the relationships of wearables with…
Barbara Moissa, Geoffray Bonnin and Anne Boyer Effort is considered a key factor of students’ success and its influences on learning outcomes have been studied for decades. To study this relationship, researchers have been measuring it in several different ways….
Carsten Ullrich, Cédric Donati, David C. Pugh, Alex Gluhak, Anthony Garcia-Labiad and Xia Wang Work processes such as assembly in manufacturing are often highly complex and change frequently due to today’s high rate of technological innovation. Thus, the usage of…
Dan Kohen-Vacs, Gila Kurtz and Yanay Zaguri Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology expected to transform the way we live, work and learn. It consists of devices endowed with sensors as well as Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)…