We describe how playware and games may become adaptive to the interaction of the individual user and how therapists use this adaptation property to apply modular interactive tiles in rehabilitation practices that demand highly individualized training. Therapists may use the interactive modular tiles to provide treatment for a large number of patients who receive hospital, municipality or home c...

Interactive whiteboards (IWB) are regarded as one of the most revolutionary instructional technologies for various educational levels. While the impacts of IWBs in classroom settings have been examined recently in a number of studies, this study not only looks at the perception but also examines the actual usage and behaviors associated with promising IWB features in practical settings. The mai...

This paper illustrates how interactive whiteboards (IWBs) have been used to support the dynamic creation, capture and sharing of knowledge in primary and secondary schools in South Africa. It reports on the findings of a feasibility study undertaken by the Eastern Cape Department of Education to determine the perceived benefits and drawbacks of teachers and learners of using IWBs in the classro...

• engagement (through visual, kinaesthetic and auditory means); • research (access to a wide range of resources from which to search and select); • writing and editing (through offering pupils ways to commit ideas more readily and edit to far greater extents than before) and; • presentation (through enabling them to present work neatly and professionally). • The types of ICT that pupils found p...

We present an empirical study in which we investigated group vs. individual performance with collaborative information visualization environments (CIVEs), the effects of system transparency on users’ performance and the effects of different collaborative settings on CIVE usage. Subjects searched for findings with CIVEs, working either alone, in a collocated dyad using a shared electronic whiteb...

The appearance of the interactive whiteboard in the Hungarian primary and secondary schools has got a new impetus in the last two years, due to The National Development Plan, whose aim was to install interactive boards in 42,000 classrooms by 2010. The appearance of the new device made teachers face new tasks concerning the use of the interactive whiteboard, and prompted them to form an all new...

This research project investigated the use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in one primary school (R-7). The NSW Quality Teaching Framework was used as a part of professional development activities with teachers to improve their practice. Using activity theory and drawing upon observations and interview data, tensions are identified and described about the uptake and effective use of IWBs acro...

In this paper we consider what it should mean to build ‘smartness’ or ‘intelligence’ into the home. We introduce an argument suggesting that it is people who imbue their homes with intelligence by continually weaving together things in their physical worlds with their everyday routines and distinct social arrangements. To develop this argument we draw on four ongoing projects concerned with des...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the views of primary students about interactive whiteboard [IWB] use in their classes from attitudinal and pedagogical perspectives. Research was designed as an empirical approach to phenomenology. Data was collected from fifty primary students (fourth to eighth) through focus group interviews. Nvivo 9 qualitative data analysis software was used...