Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing in the Undergraduate Curriculum

Armstrong State University, Savannah GA

Investigators

Abstract

Computer Science (31) This project develops curriculum support materials for use with undergraduate computer science majors to develop Java based handheld and smart-card applications for the Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC) market. Faculty and students are provided with HUC devices and developing prototype tools to demonstrate their effective use in our curriculum. Evaluation and assessment of the tools is done using student evaluations developed by a behavioral psychologist and interviews conducted by an independent review board of industry specialists. These tools are incorporated in two of our required and three of our elective courses. The tools and modules developed will be disseminated over the Internet via www.sourceforge.net, in a series of papers, and through a forthcoming Prentice Hall textbook Java Micro Edition Programming.