Users’ characteristics and their different mobility stages sometimes reduce or eliminate their capability to perform paper-based activities. The support of such activities and their extension through the utilization of non paper-based modalities introduces new perspectives on their accomplishment. We introduce mobile multimodal artefacts and an artefact framework as a solution to this problem. ...

This chapter examines the field of applied ontology and the characterization of the notion of artefact within this same domain. It begins with a brief discussion of the basic issues that are of special relevance to formal ontology before then going on to present the main existing systems and emphasize their differences. The situation regarding the formalization of artefacts is discussed and the...

The design of mLearning applications based on mobile data technologies and the development of mLearning services implementing them is driven both by mobile technology innovation, and by the trend towards more student-centered and personalized learning. mLearning activities are normally delivered through an mLearning service, which may use a specialized hardware/software mobile learning artefact...