INTRODUCTION University campuses offer an opportunity to study the extent to which modifying the food environment influences eating, but in-depth characterizations of campus food environments are needed to identify potential targets for intervention. The objective of this project was to describe the availability, accessibility, and quality of healthful food choices in dining venues and food sto...

A variety of social factors are expected to contribute to health behaviors among college students. The goal of this paper is to describe the relationships of two different aspects of the campus social environment, namely the campus resources for gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) students and the campus-wide behavioral norms of substance use, to the individual substance-use behaviors of college s...

1 Departamento de Geologı́a Dinàmica, Geofı́sica i Paleontologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain 2 Departamento de Geodinámica, Universidad de Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, 18071 Granada, Spain 3 Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, C.S.I.C./Universidad de Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, 18002 Granada, Spain 4 British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Hi...

U-TOPIA, introduced in this paper, is a campus-wide advanced ubiquitous computing environment. Research in UTOPIA spans various components each of which is essential to realize U-TOPIA: from user device hardware / software, user interface, communication technology, indoor / outdoor testbed, middleware to practical applications. We designed and implemented a wearable computer from the scratch an...

As ubiquitous computing technologies mature, they must move out of laboratory settings and into the everyday world. In the process, they will increasingly be used by heterogeneous groups, made up of individuals with different attitudes and social roles. We have been studying an example of this in a campus setting. Our field work highlights the complex relationships between technology use and in...

Computed mediated conferencing (CMC) into asynchronous form, offers potential benefits for learning through its text based nature and space and time to reflect. The project investigates student approaches to learning (deep surface) and learning strategies, in this environment. The research is sited in a degree course where flexible learning models are available for n campus students. The relati...

Virtual Campusis a research project which aims to provide a comprehensive and innovative e-learning environment for authoring, fruition and evaluation. The paper presents the Tutoring and Validation module developed for Virtual Campus. The Validation tool tracks the learners’ behaviour within the Virtual Campus environment and defines the “user model” in terms of learning attitudes (derived by ...

iCampus is a prototype multi-agent system whose goal is to provide the ambient intelligence required to connect people in a university campus and make that campus inclusive and accessible. Software agents called guides run on mobile phones to help students with information about people, places, and events, thus providing people real-time, location-based advice that makes them more aware of what...