New development of M-psychology for junior high school with interactive multimedia approach

Abstract

This paper will present a new development of m-Psychology for Junior High School with multimedia approach. The m-Psychology will consist of three kinds of specific application utilized as an indirect Counseling Guidance that running on mobile phone. These three applications are as follow; m-KE (Emotional Quotient mobile), m-KK (Success Intelligent mobile), and m-LDP (Leadership mobile). The method used in the application is a combination an interactive media and an educational psychology. Moreover, the development of this software application involves many aspects such as interface, interactivity, user friendly mode, and stand alone cellular phone software based on multimedia approach. Clearly, there are four multimedia components used in the application which are text, graph or picture, audio, and animation. The m-psychology will run on Symbian Operation System. Based on the test, people give rating: 43% excellent, 40% good, 16% adequate, and 1% poor. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.