MOBILE LOCATION-BASED LEARNING REMINDERS USING GSM CELL IDENTIFICATION
Author(s):
Björn Hedin,
Johanna Norén
Paper abstract: Location-based services are rapidly becoming accessible to a wide audience using the GPS available in
many mobile phones. However, an even wider audience can be reached using positioning based on the
GSM cell, a technique which is available on many more phones, and which is a solution that also works
indoors and underground which is not the case for GPS receivers. Additionally, battery consumption is
much lower using such positioning methods. In this paper, we describe a study in which a location-based
reminder system, based on GSM cell identification, has been developed for mobile learning in chemistry.
The results indicate that such location-based reminders are useful for detecting m-learning opportunities,
and that the respondents saw these opportunities as bonus studying time, when they would not have done
anything else anyway. Most respondents were also more positive about studying chemistry on their
mobile phones after the study than before the study.
