Mobile learning and testing is emerging as a potential educational environment. In this article we evaluate the use of mobile devices for testing as compared to web-based assessment systems. We also describe an authoring tool to develop adaptable and adaptive computerized tests that can be executed on such different platforms as personal computers, personal digital assistants and mobile phones....

In the pervasive computing era, mobile phones and personal digital assistants are widely used for data collection. The traditional user interfaces which are employed for data collection in personal computer environments are to be modified appropriately for the mobile environment. Because, it is difficult to display full interface on a single mobile screen due to the limitation of the mobile pho...

With the growth of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), pocket-sized digital music players and smart phones the need for digital forensic tools that can acquire and analyse these devices has also been growing. PDD is a utility designed to acquire images of the memory of Palm OS based PDAs for forensic analysis. The use of volatile Random Access Memory (RAM) by Palm PDAs can have an effect on fore...

Flash Memory Cards including Smart Media Cards, Sony Memory Sticks and other formats are currently used in a variety of devices including personal digital assistants, digital cameras, portable music and voice recording products. From a forensic viewpoint, it may often be necessary to demonstrate that a particular card has been used in a particular device. Sometimes this might be achieved throug...

Any paper document when converted to electronic form through standard digitizing devices, like scanners, is subject to a small tilt or skew. With recent advances of hand-held devices such as cell-phones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), etc. having built-in digital cameras, a new trend of document capturing has emerged. Because of the non-contact nature of digital cameras attached to these ha...

The paper describes a case study of how a combination of techniques, such as agent technologies, user, task and context modeling can be used to adapt a distributed application for mobile users with Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and support seamless connection and access to a centralized information system in areas of disconnection. In a domain where users have typical tasks and information...

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) were incorporated into the six-week Family Medicine Clerkship in 2002 to achieve two major goals: tracking students' outpatient encounters at preceptor sites and providing opportunities to use PDAs during medical visits. Each student collects information on each patient seen. Data are then retrieved and presented to students individually and as a group twice d...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study's objective was to evaluate the acceptability, effect, and use of handheld computers (also known as personal digital assistants or PDAs) as a reward for undergraduate rural community-based family medicine preceptors. METHODS All rural, undergraduate family physician teachers who accepted an undergraduate student for a 1-month placement were offered the cho...

We conducted a pilot project to evaluate the potential of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) technologies to improve the oral health of people with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, chronic health problems and a long-standing history of poor oral health self-care. Oral health video and audio materials were prepared and transferred to PDAs. Patients were trained in the use of the PDAs at...

Author(s): Assoc. Prof. Nobuyoshi Yabuki, Manager Yoshikazu Shimada, Director Kikuo Tomita Institution(s): Muroran Institute of Technology, Electric Power Development Co., Ltd., Fujita Corporation E-mail(s): [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract: Inspectors of buildings including power plants have to carry a bulk of documents and drawings to ...