ALEX®: a mobile Adult Literacy Experiential Learning application

Abstract

An alarmingly high number of adults in the world's most developed countries are linguistically functionally illiterate. The research presented in this paper describes ALEX©, an ongoing attempt to successfully develop an innovative assistive, mobile, experiential language-learning application to support the daily literacy education and needs of such adults, anywhere, anytime. We introduce a set of guidelines we have collated to inform the design of mobile assistive technologies, introduce our application and describe the design activities to date that have led to the development of our current application. We present this overview in the hope that it is useful to others working in the fledgling domains of mobile assistive technology design and/or mobile experiential language-learning technologies.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMLO.2010.032635
Divisions: ?? 50811700Jl ??
Additional Information: International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, 4 (2010), http://www.inderscience.com/offer.php?id=32635 © Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Uncontrolled Keywords: MLL,mobile language learning,experiential learning,functional illiteracy,assistive technology,adult literacy,mobile learning,m-learning,literacy education
Publication ISSN: 1746-7268
Last Modified: 02 Dec 2024 08:07
Date Deposited: 16 Dec 2011 13:23
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2010
Authors: Lumsden, Joanna (Jo) (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-8637-7647)
Leung, Rock
D'amours, Danny
McDonald, Daniel

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