Mobile Adaptive Communication Support for Vocabulary Acquisition

Mobile Adaptive Communication Support for Vocabulary Acquisition

This work explores the use of an adaptive mobile tool for language learning. A schoolbased deployment study showed that the tool supported learning. A second study is being conducted in informal learning environments. Current work focuses on building models that increase our understanding of the relationship between application usage and learning.

Communication Support for Adaptive Computation

Paper Title: Active Networking Support for Mobile Multicast Communication Active Networking Support for Mobile Multicast Communication

This paper proposes a scalable and reliable multicast communication service based on active networking for mobile hosts in cellular environments. This service uses resources ooered by active nodes in order to overcome problems in mobile multicast communication such as: high error-bit rates over wireless links, losses due to handoos, mobile host location, and NAK implosion. Simulations were carr...

Assistive Mobile Communication Support

This paper reflects on our work in providing communication support for people with speech and language disabilities. We discuss the role of mobile technologies in assistive systems and share ongoing research efforts.

How well does teacher talk support incidental vocabulary acquisition?

Opportunities for incidental vocabulary acquisition were explored in a 121,000-word corpus of teacher talk addressed to advanced adult learners of English as a second language (ESL) in a communicatively-oriented conversation class. In contrast to previous studies that relied on short excerpts, the corpus contained all of the teacher speech the learners were exposed to during a 9-week session. L...