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DELbA 2020
Workshop on Designing and Facilitating
Educational Location-based Applications
Preface
Heinrich Söbke1[0000-0002-0105-3126], Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge2, 3[0000-0002-3747-0845],
Mario Wolf 1, and Florian Wehking1
1 Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Bauhaus-Institute for Infrastructure Solutions (b.is),
Coudraystr. 7, 99423 Weimar, Germany
{heinrich.soebke|ulrich.mario.wolf|florian.wehking}
@uni-weimar.de
2 BIBA – Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH,
Hochschulring 20, 28359 Bremen, Germany
baa@biba.uni-bremen.de
3 Royal Institute of Technology, Kvarnbergagatan 12, Södertälje, Sweden
jmbh@kth.se
Keywords: location-based apps, context-based learning, serious games.
1 Background
Mobile devices and mobile internet are the prerequisites for location-based apps, which
interpret the current location for providing position-sensitive information. In form of
games, location-based apps are extremely popular. For example, 2013 Ingress [1] gen-
erated a hype that was surpassed by 2016 Pokémon GO [2] with an even larger player
base. Other forms of location-based apps include AR browsers, such as Wikitude [3],
and digital tour apps, such as ARIS [4] or PlayVisit [5]. From a didactical perspective,
location-based apps have a number of characteristics that make their use as learning
tools very promising. Examples are location-based apps guiding learners to real objects
on locations and supplementing these objects with information to be learned. Exempla-
rily, the contiguity principle is one of the principles of the Cognitive Theory of Multi-
media Learning [6] supported: learning effects are reinforced by the temporal and/or
spatial combination of object and information. Further principles of multimedia learn-
ing, such as signaling (i.e. the insertion of additional clues) can also be implemented
using location-based apps. Additionally, location-based apps may also serve as social
interaction triggers for collaborative learning settings, such as the joint development of
learning content in groups or for making decisions and achieving goals as a team.
Based on the experiences of our previous workshops on educational location-based
games in Arequipa, Peru [7] and Vienna, Austria [8], in this workshop the focus will
be shifted to the benefits of location-based apps in general for educational purposes.
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Drawing on the debate on mobile and context-based learning, we want to foster a dis-
course on the context in which location-based applications are the tools most valuable
for learning. In addition, the workshop is intended to elicit design guidelines that ensure
a balance between educational purpose and technical content in the development and
use of location-based applications.
2 Organizational Setting and Topics of Contributions
The workshop consist of two parts: It starts with a set of short presentations to three
different topics:
Location-based games: 21st century skills and didactic history
Didactic designs for educational location-based apps
Learning and virtualization of location-based apps
The contributions for this part comes from a public call for participation and aims at
providing the workshop participants a quick overview of research in the field. This
opens up the possibility for also novices in the field to have an active contribution in
the second phase of the workshop, which comprises group activities aiming at identi-
fying new research topics and support cross-institutional collaboration.
We received all in all eight submissions that all underwent a double-blind peer review
ensuring at least two reviews and at max three reviews per paper. Many of the submis-
sions were highly fitting the call and of high quality. With the engagement and the
constructive critics and suggestion from the program committee, it was possible to lev-
erage all submissions to such a good quality that they can be published. We expect that
these eight highly relevant contributions will impose interesting research questions and
lively discussions. We would like to thank the members of the program committee for
their valuable and constructive detailed work in preparing the reviews:
Jeferson Arango Lopez (Universidad de Caldas, Colombia)
Thomas Bröker (TH Nuremberg, Germany)
Annamaria Cacchione (Istituto Nazionale di Documentazione, Innovazione e
Ricerca Educativa, Italy)
Trina Julian Edwards (Metro Nashville Virtual School, United States)
David Gagnon (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
Yiannis Georgiou (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
Mark Gaved (The Open University, United Kingdom)
Jimmy Jaldemark (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Peter Mozelius (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Ekaterina Pechenkina (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Anton Nijholt (TU Enschede, The Netherlands)
Ioana Andreea Stefan (Advanced Technology Systems, Targoviste, Romania)
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3 Outlook
We believe that the following contributions, which are presented during the workshop
in three sessions, constitute an excellent groundwork for a prosperous outcome of the
workshop. It is our hope that the workshop will further develop the topic of educational
location-based apps and contribute to further productive networking within the com-
munity of researchers and further stakeholders.
4 References
1. Niantic Labs: Ingress, http://www.ingress.com/.
2. Niantic Inc.: Pokémon Go, http://www.pokemongo.com/.
3. Wikitude GmbH: Wikitude Augmented Reality: the World’s Leading Cross-
Platform AR SDK, https://www.wikitude.com.
4. fieldlab.org: ARIS Create location-based games and stories,
https://fielddaylab.org/make/aris/.
5. Geomotion Games: PlayVisit, http://www.playvisit.com/.
6. Mayer, R.E.: Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. In: Cambridge
Handbook of Multimedia Learning. S. 31–48 (2005).
7. Baalsrud Hauge, J., Söbke, H., Stefan, I.A., Stefan, A.: Designing Serious
Mobile Location-Based Games. In: van der Spek, E., Göbel, S., Do, E.Y.-L.,
Clua, E., und Baalsrud Hauge, J. (Hrsg.) Entertainment Computing and Serious
Games - ICEC -JCSG 2019 LNCS 11863. S. 479–484. Springer International
Publishing, Cham (2019).
8. Baalsrud Hauge, J., Stanescu, I.A., Stefan, A.: Constructing and Experimenting
Pervasive, Gamified Learning. In: Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2016 15th
IFIP TC 14 International Conference Vienna, Austria, September 28–30, 2016
(2016).