1 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 ECOOL: Generation of Collaborative Multiplatform Scenarios with Interactive Learning Objects Francisco Javier Martínez Ruiz 1, Juan Manuel González Calleros 1, Josefina Guerrero García 1, Jaime Muñoz Arteaga 2, Jean Vanderdonckt 1 1 Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) Louvain School of Management (LSM) - Information Systems Unit (ISYS) Belgian Laboratory of Computer-Human Interaction (BCHI) 2 Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Dpto. de Sistemas de Información, Av. Universidad #940 – Aguascalientes (México)

2 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Agenda  Introduction & motivations  ECOOL Architecture  ECOOL metamodel  ECOOL on different platforms  Conclusion

3 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Agenda  Introduction & motivations  ECOOL Architecture  ECOOL metamodel  ECOOL on different platforms  Conclusion

4 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 VLE or LMS

5 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 ICampus on SmartPhones

6 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 ICampus on Pocket PC

7 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Multiplicity of contexts of use LocationRoleDeviceExperience SportingMultimedia Travel programme WorkingTravel booking site Powerful interface for complex operations TravellingBooking notification Everywhere connectivity for simple data exchange FamilyTV is multi-media family device #1

8 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 UI #12UI #11UI #10UI #9Application 3 UI #8UI #7UI #6UI #5Application 2 UI #4UI #3UI #2UI #1Application 1 Platform #4Platform #3Platform #2Platform #1 Application 1 Application 2 Application 3 UI model #1 UI model #2 UI model #3 Platform #1 Platform #2 Platform #3 Platform #4 Platform model #1 Platform model #2 Platform model #3 Platform model #4 Consequence Proliferation of developments [Abrams et al.,2001]

9 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Technical Aspects The LMSs impose a series of challenges in different areas: Software engineering aspects –It takes time to develop a user interface with a new device, a new interaction technique –It takes more time to develop a toolkit –It takes even more time to rely on a model-driven approach Usability engineering aspects –New user interfaces are shipped with usability problems because Little or no experience No past, no empirical evidence –Empirical experiments require a lot of resource if done carefully

10 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 The proposal: ECOOL ECOOL: supporting the dEsign of COllaborative Objects for Learning ECOOL is a LMS architecture conceived to support the design of learning content on a collaborative context. ECOOL relies on the existing characteristics of a VLE system, Claroline which are: Users’ manager. Courses’ manager, Search for courses, Visualize the content of a course, What’s new section,Agenda, Announcements, Documents and links. Exercises. Learning path Assignments, Forums, Groups and Chat.

11 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Agenda  Introduction & motivations  ECOOL Architecture  ECOOL metamodel  ECOOL on different platforms  Conclusion

12 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 ECOOL Architecture (1/6)

13 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Agenda  Introduction & motivations  ECOOL Architecture  ECOOL metamodel  ECOOL on different platforms  Conclusion

14 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 ECOOL metamodel

15 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 ECOOL metamodel

16 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Environment T Final user Interface T Concrete user Interface T Task and Domain T Abstract user Interface T T=Target context of use Concrete user Interface S Final user Interface S Task and Domain S Abstract user Interface S S=Source context of use Reification Abstraction Reflexion Translation UsiXML unsupported model UsiXML supported model User SPlatform SEnvironment SPlatform TUser T UsiXML

17 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 In practice

18 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 In practice

19 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 In practice

20 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 In practice

21 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 One description- Many representations

22 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Agenda  Introduction & motivations  ECOOL Architecture  ECOOL metamodel  ECOOL on different platforms  Conclusion

23 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Heterogeneousness of platforms

24 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 ECOOL on Mobile Phones

25 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Plastic User interface Property of plasticity = adaptation to the context of use while satisfying predefined usability properties of interest [Grolaux et al.,2002] [Florins,2006]

26 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Agenda  Introduction & motivations  ECOOL Architecture  ECOOL metamodel  ECOOL example  Learning paths revised  ECOOL on different platforms  Conclusion

27 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Conclusion In this paper we have presented: 1.An alternative method for the automatic generation of Collaborative Multiplatform Scenarios with Interactive Learning Objects. Note: This implies: a change in the current paradigm from eLearning to mLearning (Mobile Learning) to mpLearning (Multiplatform learning) 2.The overall learning process is seen as a workflow. 3.This approach introduces a flow control that allows tackling at the same time, the problem of divergence in individual learning and the definition of the learning process in terms of collaboration agents and processes. 4.The introduction of a meta-description (in UsiXML) that is going to aid in the process of generation of multiple Uis.

28 Interaccion 2008, IX Congreso de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Albacete, 9-12 June 2008 Thank you very much for your attention For more information and downloading, User Interface eXtensible Markup Language European network on Multimodal UIs Special thanks to all members of the team!