In two consecutive years, we conducted this study in t\'o'0 sections of a lower-level engineering mechanics course, Statics. One author taught both sections and a crossover design of experiment was used. In a crossover design, one section was randomly chosen to receive feedback with handheld computers (the "treatment" group) while the other received the "control," which was either a feedback sy...

Advancements in technology, ranging from the decreasing cost of PCs and availability of broadband technology through to the spread of mobile computing technology, open up interesting possibilities in collaborative music composition. To-date technology approaches in this field have yet to fully explore all of the possibilities that new technology offers. We believe, that for any advancements to ...

PURPOSE Primary care practices are an ideal setting for reducing national smoking rates because >70% of smokers visit their physician annually, yet smoking cessation counseling is inconsistently delivered to patients. We designed and created a novel software program for handheld computers and hypothesized that it would improve clinicians' ability to provide patient-tailored smoking cessation co...

Despite a rise in the use of handheld computers in classrooms, meaningful learning with personal digital assistant (PDA) technology remains poorly studied. We report results from an evaluation of customized handheld data collection software, the BioKIDS Sequence, which was used during an 8-week biodiversity curriculum unit by 5th and 6th grade students in southeastern Michigan. We provide new i...

Designing software for handheld computers is challenging because of their limited computing power, memory, display size, and the choices of hardware and operating systems. In addition to these challenges, collaborative handheld applications must deal with distributed computing and other network-related issues. We believe that by designing these applications as multimodal, multiagent systems, we...

In the Behavioral Sciences, there is demand for data acquisition tools to deal with the problem of event recording during experiments. Handheld computers can be used and customized for this task, offering flexibility, accuracy and speed. This paper describes an application for a PocketPC handheld computer that allows manually operated event datalogging. Among other features, the application sof...

Recent improvements in the technology of handheld computers and mobile communications have made the task of exploring handheld mobile video conferencing feasible. Handheld mobile video conferencing introduces a number of constraints that affect the type of coders and protocols that are used. This research project has explored audio and video coders that are suitable for use in a handheld wirele...