Adult illiteracy rates are alarmingly high worldwide. The portability, affordability, and ease of use of mobile (or handheld) devices offer a realistic opportunity to provide novel, context-sensitive literacy resources to adults with limited literacy skills. To this end, we developed the concept of ALEX - a mobile Adult Literacy support application for Experiential learning (Lumsden et al., 2005). On the basis of a medium-fidelity prototype of this application, we conducted an evaluation of ALEX using participants from our intended user group. This evaluation had two goals: (a) to assess the usefulness of the ALEX concept and the usability of its current design; and (b) to reflect on the appropriateness of our evaluation process given the l...
Mobile devices are often promoted by the media as being able to offer great benefits for users with ...
Mobile learning has appeared on the market as an attractive educational option and has produced some...
Literacy is an important skill for accessing all academic content areas, and there has been an incre...
An alarmingly high number of adults in the world's most developed countries are linguistically funct...
For a very large number of adults in developed countries, tasks such as reading, understanding, and ...
For a very large number of adults, tasks such as reading, understanding, and using everyday items ar...
Basic literacy skills are fundamental building blocks of education, yet for a very large number of a...
Illiteracy is often associated with people in developing countries. However, an estimated 50 % of ad...
Education plays a vital role in the success of any community. Countries with increased literacy rate...
Illiteracy is often associated with people in developing countries. However, an estimated 50\ua0% of...
Young people’s involvement with their mobile devices is often considered a problem nowadays. However...
abstract: This project seeks to improve the reading and writing skills of literacy-challenged adults...
This pilot study was conducted to determine the methods and project data for the effectiveness of th...
This research examined the usability of an interactive mobile application (tablet application) desig...
The evolution of mobile technologies in learning, has been increased the requirements for developing...
Mobile devices are often promoted by the media as being able to offer great benefits for users with ...
Mobile learning has appeared on the market as an attractive educational option and has produced some...
Literacy is an important skill for accessing all academic content areas, and there has been an incre...
An alarmingly high number of adults in the world's most developed countries are linguistically funct...
For a very large number of adults in developed countries, tasks such as reading, understanding, and ...
For a very large number of adults, tasks such as reading, understanding, and using everyday items ar...
Basic literacy skills are fundamental building blocks of education, yet for a very large number of a...
Illiteracy is often associated with people in developing countries. However, an estimated 50 % of ad...
Education plays a vital role in the success of any community. Countries with increased literacy rate...
Illiteracy is often associated with people in developing countries. However, an estimated 50\ua0% of...
Young people’s involvement with their mobile devices is often considered a problem nowadays. However...
abstract: This project seeks to improve the reading and writing skills of literacy-challenged adults...
This pilot study was conducted to determine the methods and project data for the effectiveness of th...
This research examined the usability of an interactive mobile application (tablet application) desig...
The evolution of mobile technologies in learning, has been increased the requirements for developing...
Mobile devices are often promoted by the media as being able to offer great benefits for users with ...
Mobile learning has appeared on the market as an attractive educational option and has produced some...
Literacy is an important skill for accessing all academic content areas, and there has been an incre...