CIAM mobile: Methodology supporting mobile application design and evaluation applied on GreedeX tab

Abstract

We have addressed the problem of improving CIAM (Collaborative Interactive Application Methodology) in order to support design, modeling and evaluation of collaborative and interactive mobile applications. CIAM Mobile (m-CIAM) is the result of the integration of CIAM with MoLEF (Mobile Learning Evaluation Framework), which serves as a basis for an evaluation tool that allows for analyzing characteristics of applications in m-Learning. In this paper, we endeavor to show how to apply m-CIAM to the design of m-Learning applications that were previously developed with the original version of CIAM. The selected application to describe this process is called GreedEx Tab, which is the iPad version of the GreedEx tool. Our objective is to develop a new prototype for the iPad applying m-CIAM as methodological approach and compare the results with the initial version of this application. These results show that we can obtain improved relative values in pedagogical and technological usability.