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Towards an Architecture to Multimodal Tools for e-Learning Environments

Authors:
Andre da Silva
Fernanda Freire
Flavia Arantes

Keywords: architecture for multimodal tools; multiple platform and multidevices; e-Learning environments.

Abstract:
e-Learning environments are applications that use the Web infrastructure to support teaching and learning activities; they are designed to have good usability using a desktop computer with keyboard, mouse and high-resolution medium-size display. Devices equipped with pen and touch sensitive screen have enough computational power to render Web pages and allow users to navigate through the e-learning environments. But, pen-based or touch sensitive devices have a different input style, decreasing the usability of e-learning environments due the interaction modality change. To work on mobile contexts, e-learning environments must be improved to consider the interaction through pen and touch. In our previous work, we presented InkBlog, Multimodal Editor, and InkAnnotation: three multimodal tools for e-learning environments. Based on these previous works, we propose a generic architecture for multimodal tools for e-learning environments, describing common components to treat data generated by pen and touch that can be generalized to treat other modalities.

Pages: 66 to 72

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: November 12, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-598-2

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 12, 2017 to November 16, 2017