JITT, Special Issue on Mobile Systems for Tourism

Information Technology & Tourism, Special Issue on Mobile Systems for Tourism, guest editors: Lorenzo Cantoni & María Teresa Linaza Saldaña. Now available the CFP:

Summer school in Lugano (Switzerland)

Summer School IDEAL Tourism
Information and communication technologies for promotion and development of sustainable tourism around cultural and natural destinations. The case of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites
August 25-September 5, 2014
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano – Switzerland)

Among the instructors: Lorenzo Cantoni, Marcel Danesi, Silvia de Ascanis, Elena Marchiori, Amalia Sabiescu, John Traxler, Sara Vannini, Font Xavier

Organized by the UNESCO chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites.

Design, User Experience, and Usability. Web, Mobile, and Product Design

• Asta Adukaite, Alessandro Inversini & L. Cantoni, Examining User Experience of Cruise Online Search Funnel, in Aaron Marcus (Ed.), Design, User Experience, and Usability. Web, Mobile, and Product Design. Proceedings of the Second International Conference, DUXU 2013 [held as Part of HCI International 2013. Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013], Springer, Berlin – Heidelberg 2013, pp. 163-172 

• Aaron Marcus, Theresa Karolina Schieder & Lorenzo Cantoni, The Travel Machine: Mobile UX Design That Combines Information Design with Persuasion Design, in A. Marcus (Ed.), Design, User Experience, and Usability. Web, Mobile, and Product Design. Proceedings of the Second International Conference, DUXU 2013 [held as Part of HCI International 2013. Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013], Springer, Berlin – Heidelberg 2013, pp. 696-705

 

Mobile Science & Learning

Marta Pucciarelli & Lorenzo Cantoni, Mobile Access To Knowledge, in Enrique Canessa & Marco Zennaro (Eds.), Mobile Science & Learning, ICTP—The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy) 2012, pp. 71-77.
Freely downloadable.

Mobile Science and Learning v.4 (Hires)

VareseGuide

for those using Android, a great mobile appication developed by webatelier.net
in Italian & in English

Mobile Learning: una risorsa nell’educazione universitaria? Risultati da una ricerca in Ticino (Svizzera)

Emanuele Rapetti, Anna Picco-Schwendener, Sara Vannini (NewMinE Lab), Mobile Learning: una risorsa nell’educazione universitaria? Risultati da una ricerca in Ticino (Svizzera), Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 7, No 2 (2011)

Google Wallet

have a look >>>

Workshop on Mobile Science: Sensing, Computing and Dissemination

ICTP (Trieste), November 2—5, 2010
Automatic video recording of the activities (with synchronized slides) using the ICTP EyA System. All talks are automatically recorded hourly >>>

e-Learning and m-Learning: A Methodological Framework

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RIM and Android Eat into Apple's Mobile Ad Dominance

on ClickZ >>>

Apple patents “iTravel”, a mobile booking and ticketless check-in App for iPhone

on NewMedia TrendWatch >>>

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM)

the new issue is online >>>

txteagle

There are over 2 billion literate, mobile phone subscribers in the developing world, many living on less than $5 a day.
Corporations pay people to accomplish millions of simple text-based tasks.
txteagle enables these tasks to be completed via text message by ordinary people around the globe >>>

City Treasure. Mobile Games for Learning Cultural Heritage

Museums and the Web 2009, a paper by Alessandro Inversini, Alessandra di Maria, & Luca Botturi (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) >>>

Mobile Internet Becoming A Daily Activity For Many

a report by comScore >>>

'Little’s Britain': Mobile revelations

(Checkpoint eLearning) London (UK), January 2009 - (by Bob Little) Kris Swanson, of Merrill Lynch, has revealed that the company has some 60,000 employees and, of these, some 21,000 have BlackBerry mobile devices. Of these, some 6,000 have been given access to mobile learning materials and, to date, there are some 2,000 regular users of this mobile learning material. That means that some 9.5 per cent of those with access to the delivery technology for mobile learning are using it >>>

InstaMapper

worth a try (i don't give you my code... my wife has it) >>>

More Than One-Third Of U.S. Pre-Teens Have A Mobile Phone

on MediaPost >>>

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM)

the new issue is available >>>

Google Unveils Mobile Vision; An Open Platform Named Android

on MediaPost >>>