Electronic Tag-Playing Support System with Awareness Function

摘要

Mobile phone, PHS and PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) are highly portable, and positioning data will become important data for human communication. There are many location information services. However, most of services only display the position information on target as a map. There was no service using the sense of hearing or touch as expression of position information. Then, we have developed the electronic tag-playing support groupware with awareness functions using sound, vibration and blinking color screen. We performed experiments 30 times with the awareness functions and without the awareness functions at two universities. The results of the experiments show that the evaluation of the enhanced type (with the awareness functions) one-to-one experiments was higher than that of the standard type one-to-one experiment. The awareness functions seem to be effective to increase seriousness.