Abstract
<p class="0abstract">Context-aware mobile applications can adapt to different mobile, user and application contexts. Mobile cloud computing has been integrated with those applications to benefit from the cloud resources and make up for the limited mobile resources. This paper proposes such an application for the assessment and training of student visual cognitive abilities and skills that constitute an integral part of student intelligence such as the visualization ability of recognizing rotated objects. The need to ubiquitously and continuously deliver exercises relevant to a specific visual cognitive ability or skill according to the student proficiency and context has stimulated proposing the context-aware cloud-based MObile application for assessment and training of visual Cognitive Abilities (MOCA) presented in this paper. Integrating cloud computing with MOCA allows creating an extendible repository on the cloud and saving the relatively limited mobile resources that would be consumed by visual material. MOCA can be used in applications that are based on such cognitive abilities such as teaching visual science concepts and the visual classification and diagnosis of medical images. Two prototype mobile applications have been developed based on MOCA for visualization ability and for visual classification of science concepts. Empirical evaluation has shown the effectiveness of MOCA in training the students and the satisfaction of the students and teachers with its capabilities. MOCA is also a framework for building systems for other types of cognitive abilities.</p>
Highlights
The widespread use of smartphones has stimulated the development of various types and an extremely large number of mobile applications
This paper presented MOCA, a context-aware cloud-based mobile application for assessment and training of visual cognitive abilities
MOCA integrates the advantages of mobile applications, context-awareness and mobile cloud computing
Summary
The widespread use of smartphones has stimulated the development of various types and an extremely large number of mobile applications. Due to the ultimate importance of visual cognitive abilities and skills, this paper proposes an original context-aware cloud-based MObile application for assessment and training of visual Cognitive Abilities (MOCA). Exploiting mobile-cloud computing in MOCA is suitable for those abilities and skills since corresponding exercises inherently include visual material that require a relatively large storage space that may not be possible due to the limited mobile resources This allows creating an extendible repository on the cloud, that allows adding new material and exercises and sharing them to provide continuous (and possibly life-long) training of visual cognitive abilities and their applications. Proposing MOCA, an original context-aware cloud-based mobile application for assessment and training of various visual cognitive abilities and skills.
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