Related work

Abstract

In this chapter we present related work in the scientific area of mobile learning and we also investigate current research efforts in the area of affective mobile computing. Furthermore, we give a brief overview of past works and approaches that have been based on Object-Oriented programming. As one may observe, mobile-learning, in its modern concept, traces its roots to the first decade of 2000. More specifically, a small number of mobile learning applications were built during the first half of the decade with a very high scientific and social interest in this area. Vincent (2009) states that over one half of the world's population is expected to be using mobile phones by 2009 and many people have become attached to and even dependent on mobile devices. In the same study mobile phones are found to maintain close ties within peoples' families and friends. As expected, during the last 5 years there has been a continuously increasing development, using modern technology, both in mobile software and hardware driven mostly by economic benefits. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.