In this position paper we outline our motivation for conducting research into mobile gaming. We discuss how the development, deployment and evaluation of mobile games may provide new insights into the use of familiar technologies and contribute towards a more rapid understanding of new and unfamiliar technologies. We also advocate the use of mobile games, rather than “real-world” applications, ...

In this study, the attitudes of Turkish university students with the regard of utilizing mobile technologies were investigated in English language learning classrooms. Primarily, this is a research of the attitudes of university students who were learning the English language via mobile technologies and who were investigated by the researchers (Uzunboylu, Hürsen, Özütürk & Demirok, 2014) and th...

Combining Mobile Internet and Grid technologies could mean the ability to command the power of supercomputers with a mobile device. The computing and data transfer capacities of mobile devices are expanding and Grid-related technologies are already being employed in them. In this paper, we survey the current technologies and standards, mainly concentrating on MIDP (Mobile Information Device Pro...

Internet Technologies allow us to connect virtual objects between them, by using their unique descriptors and identifiers. Mobile Technologies offer new opportunities for connecting the Reader/Visitor with Library Resources, Museum Materials and other Virtual Collections. We present an ongoing project in which we are connecting these materials in new services and open ways. We outline two parad...

M-government involves the provision of public sector services via mobile technologies. Two principal drivers are influencing the genesis of m-government: the need to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of service provision and the availability of an adequate technological infrastructure for mobile services. There is a third, but less visible, influence on the likely success of m-governmen...