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                           First Call for Papers
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                   5th International Conference on
   Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2008)

                             March 23-26 2008
                              Beijing, China
                         http://www.wmute2008.org/

Important Dates:

   October 5, 2007		Submissions due
   November 23, 2007		Notification of acceptance
   December 23, 2007		Camera ready papers due


Call For Papers:

The rapid progress of mobile and ubiquitous technologies enables internet
connections, anytime and anywhere, with ease. Traditional ways of
learning and teaching, happening at fixed times and places such as
schools or offices and limited with numbers of people, are changing
remarkably. Although such technologies allow people to learn in an
appropriate context, they cannot guarantee that the learning
environments we design will be successful. Issues of design,
implementation, deployment and evaluation of such technology supported
learning environments should be investigated from interdisciplinary
points of view, including computer science, educational research,
cognitive science, and so on.
WMUTE 2008 is the 5th international meeting, extending the four previous
WMTE/WMUTE workshops held in 2002 (Vaxjo, Sweden), 2004 (Taipei, Taiwan),
2005 (Tokushima, Japan) and 2006 (Athens, Greece) to become a conference
the first time. This conference provides a forum for researchers and
practitioners of this emerging area for discussing these innovative
learning technologies and challenging research issues through high
quality papers and presentations.


The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

・Innovative and practical use of wireless, mobile and ubiquitous
   technologies for education, learning and training
・Adaptive and adaptable learning environments using mobile and
   ubiquitous devices
・Agent support for mobile and ubiquitous learning
・Architectures and implementations of context-aware learning technology
   systems
・Architectures and infrastructures for ubiquitous learning systems
・Design of learner-supportive interfaces of ubiquitous learning
   applications
・Designs for wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies in education
・Digital tangibles or wireless sensor networks for learning
・Entertainment computing for ubiquitous learning
・Evaluation and evaluation methodologies for ubiquitous learning
   environments
・Game-based learning in mobile and ubiquitous learning environments
・Innovative devices for mobile/ubiquitous learning
・Amalgamating Integrating individual and collaborative learning in
   mobile and ubiquitous learning environments
・Lifelong learning support in ubiquitous/mobile environment
・Mobile and ubiquitous computing support for collaborative learning
・Mobile, ubiquitous and wireless technologies for indoor and outdoor
   learning
・New pedagogical theories for ubiquitous learning environments and
   society
・Virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies for
   ubiquitous/mobile learning


General Co-Chairs:

   Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan
   Demetrios G. Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece


Local Chair:

   Ronghuai Huang, Beijing Normal University, China


Program Co-Chairs:

   Claire O'Malley, University of Nottingham, UK
   Masanori Sugimoto, University of Tokyo, Japan


Program Committee:

   Mohamed Ally, Athabasca University, Canada
   Gerardo Ayala, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico
   Chih-Yung Chang, Tamkang University, Taiwan
   Maiga Chang, Office of e-Learning National Project, Taiwan
   Yam-San Chee, National Institute of Education, Singapore
   Irene Y.L. Chen, Ching Yun University, Taiwan
   Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway
   Panayiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, Greece
   Guangzuo Cui, Peking University, P.R. China
   Ulrich Hoppe, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
   Sherry Hsi, Exploratorium, USA
   Gwo-Jen Hwang, National University of Tainan, Taiwan
   Tomoo Inoue, University of Tsukuba, Japan
   Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
   Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada
   Siu Cheung Kong, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
   Lam-for Kwok, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
   Chen-Chung Liu, National Central University, Taiwan
   Chee-Kit Looi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
   Rose Luckin, Institute of Education, UK
   Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, Canada
   Marcelo Milrad, Vaxjo University, Sweden
   Jun Nakahara, University of Tokyo, Japan
   Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan
   Roy Pea, Stanford University, USA
   Jeremy Roschelle, SRI International, USA
   Danae Stanton Fraser, Bath University, UK
   Mike Sharples, University of Nottingham, UK
   Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
   Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan, USA
   Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
   Yao-Tin Sung, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
   Makiko Takenaka, Oita University, Japan
   Deborah Tatar, Virginia Tech, USA
   Qiong Wang, Peking University, P.R.China
   Earl Woodruff, University of Toronto, Canada
   Stephen J. H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan