Musex: System for supporting children’s learning in a museum with PDAs

Using handheld devices in educational environments is thought valuable because handheld devices have the advantage of their cheapness, mobility, enough capability and so on. And changing national curriculum standards for kindergartens in Japan, teachers have to give children oppotunities where they integrate their knowledge and apply to some problems. So a new system which provides new learning style to children is required. We built Musex, a novel learning support system in which children use PDAs in a museum, and evaluated the attractiveness and the educational effectiveness of this system for children.