In this paper we describe the MIThril Mobile-IT Education (MIT.EDU) platform, an innovative architecture that allows for the rapid prototyping of wireless mobile multi-user applications for use in classroom settings. MIT.EDU is a proven, accessible system that combines inexpensive, commodity hardware, a flexible sensor/ peripheral interconnection bus, and a powerful, light-weight distributed sensing, classification, and inter-process communications software architecture to facilitate the development of distributed real-time multi-modal and context-aware applications. We demonstrate the power and functionality of the MIT.EDU platform by describing a number of system deployments of real-world applications in a number of educational settings.
Citation:
Michael Sung, Jonathan Gips, Nathan Eagle, Rich DeVaul, Sandy Pentland, "MIT.EDU: System Architecture for Real-World Distributed Multi-user Applications in Classroom Settings," wmte, pp.43, 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE'04), 2004