Tag: tiles

  • Participation to NKUL2019

    Participation to NKUL2019

    UMI-Sci-ed, Excited, and TILES have joined forces to present their research results at NKUL, the conference that brings together teachers, school managers, policy makers, and educational technology companies. Thank you to the organizers of the NKUL conference who have given us the possibility to have a stand at the 3-day conference and organize a special…

  • Best paper award

    Best paper award

    Our paper Mavroudi, A., M. Divitini, Gianni, F., Mora, S., and  D. R. Kvittem (2018). Designing IoT applications in lower secondary schools. 2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), IEEE Press was presented at EDUCON2018 by Anna Mavroudi and won the BEST PAPER AWARD! Well done 🙂

  • Special issue on smart cities

    Special issue on smart cities

      The special issue of IxD&A on “Citizen, Territory and Technologies: Smart Learning Contexts and Practices”, edited by Monica Divitini, Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal, and Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University, Denmark, is finally out. Congratulations to Francesco Gianni with the publication of his paper describing the extension of the TILES toolkit for supporting the design of smart…

  • Finally out!

    Finally out!

    Our paper on RapidIoT is out 🙂 You can find it here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.02.030 RapIoT is a software toolkit that facilitates the prototyping of IoT systems. Our solution abstracts low-level details and communication protocols, allowing developers non-expert in IoT to focus on application logic, facilitating rapid prototyping. RapIoT supports the development of collaborative applications by enabling…

  • Daniel Satcher on Enabling IoT Development

    Daniel Satcher on Enabling IoT Development

    Enabling Internet of Things (IoT) development for non-experts and end-users is the impetus behind Daniel Satcher’s research. This effort is part of a series of projects involving TILES, an IoT toolkit that provides a common set of hardware components, application infrastructures, and interaction primitives (how users tangibly interact with the TILES hardware) in order to…

  • Anders Riise Mæhlum on TILES and the Internet of Things

    Anders Riise Mæhlum on TILES and the Internet of Things

    Anders Riise Mæhlum is currently working with the TILES project for his Master thesis. The Internet of Things, or IoT, is growing rapidly in popularity, and many toolkits for developing IoT applications are emerging. The TILES toolkit developed for the TILES project is one such toolkit, providing tools for rapid prototyping of IoT applications using…

  • Visitors from Georgia Tech

    Barbara Ericson and Mark Guzdial, from Georgia Tech, are world-leading experts in computing education and outreach activities in K-12 schools. They visited our department for IDIovation and we had the possibility to showcase some of our work in the area of education and Internet of Things for schools. See a report from the visit in…

  • Official opening of ExCITed

    On February, 1st we joined the official opening of ExCITed, the Norwegian Center for excellence in IT education. The event was attended by circa 100 participants, including the Norwegian minister for Education, the Director for the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education, and NTNU rector. Read more about it in the university newspaper (in…