MOBILE PHONE AS AN EDUCATIONAL INSTRUMENT

Model Correctness Patterns as an Educational Instrument

UML class diagrams play a central role in modeling activities. Given the difficulty in producing high quality models, modelers must be equipped with an awareness of model design problems and the ability to identify and correct such models. In this paper we observe the role of class diagram correctness patterns as an educational instrument for improving class diagram modeling. We describe a cata...

Shamus - a Sensor-Based Integrated Mobile phone Instrument

ShaMus is a sensor-based approach to turning mobile devices into musical instruments. The idea is to have the mobile device be an independent instrument on its own right. The sensors used are accelerometers and magnetometers as can now be found in some commercial mobile devices. The sound generation is also embedded on the phone itself and allows individual and untethered gestural performance t...

Microphone as Sensor in Mobile Phone Performance

Many mobile devices, specifically mobile phones, come equipped with a microphone. Microphones are high-fidelity sensors that can pick up sounds relating to a range of physical phenomena. Using simple feature extraction methods, parameters can be found that sensibly map to synthesis algorithms to allow expressive and interactive performance. For example blowing noise can be used as a wind instru...

The Mobile Phone Ensemble As Classroom

In Fall 2009 the University of Michigan offered a course called ”Building a Mobile Phone Ensemble”. In the spirit of using commodity hardware as teaching platforms, we report the outcome of this first attempt at teaching on this topic. The course was offered to seniors and graduate students in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as Music. The student had to learn to design their...

Safety Issues of Mobile Phone Base Stations