Let's Meet at the Mobile - Learning Dialogs with a Video Conferencing Software for Mobile Devices

Let's Meet at the Mobile - Learning Dialogs with a Video Conferencing Software for Mobile Devices

Mobile video-based learning

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC software codec

mobile conferencing

peer-to-peer group communication

distributed SIP conference management.

Mobile phones and related gadgets in networks are omnipresent at our students, advertising itself as the platform for mobile, pervasive learning. Currently, these devices rapidly open and enhance, being soon able to serve as a major platform for rich, open multimedia applications and communication. In this report we introduce a video conferencing software, which seamlessly integrates mobile with stationary users into fully distributed multi-party conversations. Following the paradigm of flexible, user-initiated group communication, we present an integrated solution, which scales well for medium-size conferences and accounts for the heterogeneous nature of mobile and stationary participants. This approach allows for a spontaneous, location independent establishment of video dialogs, which is of particular importance in interactive learning scenarios. The work is based on a highly optimized realization of a H.264 codec.

Cycon, Hans L.

Schmidt, Thomas C.

Hege, Gabriel

Wählisch, Matthias

Palkow, Mark

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 3 No. 3 (2009); pp. 21-25

1865-7923

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

2009-06-29

Copyright (c) 2017 Hans L. Cycon, Thomas C. Schmidt, Gabriel Hege, Matthias Wählisch, Mark Palkow

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