Web-based authoring of multimedia intervention programs for mobile devices A case study on elderly digital literacy

Author(s)

Cunha, Bruna C. R. ; Rodrigues, Kamila R. H. ; Zaine, Isabela ; Scalco, Leonardo F. ; Viel, Caio C. ; Pimentel, Maria da Graca C. ; Assoc Comp Machinery

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: SAC '19: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 34TH ACM/SIGAPP SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING; v. N/A, p. 8-pg., 2019-01-01.

Abstract

As mobile devices become accessible to a large part of the population, they can be used by professionals and researchers to conduct remote personalized interventions and data collection. However, developing mobile applications is not a trivial task as it requires a wide variety of programming skills. For professionals and researchers from areas such as health and education, this usually means that they dependent on software developers to create the mobile applications they need. Aiming to provide tools to help health and education domain experts to independently conduct interventions, data collection and analyses using smartphones, we developed (a) an authoring interface, which allows end-users to create personalized interventions as programs that collect data or define intervention-focused tasks, and (b) a mobile player, which interpret the programs so as to present the interventions according to the specifications. In this paper we present these tools and report on a case study in a mobile digital literacy course for older adults. The participants used the mobile player as a digital assistant that presented tasks designed by the instructors as reinforcement activities associated with the content presented in traditional classes. Results indicate that the elderly benefited from the reminders and activities sent by the instructors via the mobile player, thereby increasing their learning and engagement in the course, as well as their autonomy in the use of mobile devices. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 15/18117-7 - Experience Sampling and Programmed Intervention Method (ESPIM)
• Grantee: Isabela Zaine
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• FAPESP's process: 16/00351-6 - Method and infrastructure for ubiquitous capture and programmed intervention of experiences: proposal via case studies
• Grantee: Maria da Graca Campos Pimentel
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants