by Marc Ericson C. Santos (D3)

That’s me at the ICCE2014 Conference.

First, I’d like to introduce this conference. The International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE) is managed by the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) which was founded in 2004 as an independent academic society whose broad objective is to promote the conduct and communication of scientific research related to all aspects of the use of computers in education, especially within the Asia-Pacific. I am interested in this conference because I believe that AR and HCI researchers must actively engage scholars from Education Technology in order to find relevant applications of our inventions. Of course, relevant applications may also lead to opening up new research directions. I am also interested in this conference because of the special emphasis on research for the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan and the Philippines.

This year, I’m fortunate to be included among the 39 full papers out of the 155 full paper submission. Aside from the full papers, there were 56 short papers and 37 posters. There was so much variety in the topics because there were seven sub-conferences in this event. The proceedings of ICCE 2014 can be found here. You can read my full paper here, and my poster here.

I think the ICCE conference is also interested in new technologies such as the use of Oculus Rift, Kinect, and relevant AR technology. Several works on this topic were reported in the sub-conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Open Educational Content, and Standards. Also, one of the keynote speakers was Yvonne Rogers who publishes actively in HCI conferences like CHI and UIST. She presented her laboratory’s work on ubiquitous computing, especially with handheld devices and how to make these handhelds promote collaboration (given that the norm is to consume content individually on these personal devices).

For my paper and poster presentations, I was able to gather some important feedback on how I conduct my analysis for the experiments. I realized that I need to learn more about the various categories of knowledge. By categorizing knowledge, I can make better experimental design, and conduct better analysis that would hopefully lead to better insight in the benefits of an AR system to how humans consume information.

Here are some pictures at the ICCE conference:

The conference was held at the New Public Hall near Nara Park in Nara, Japan. The location is around 45 minutes from NAIST by train minus the walking.

Gagaku Performance by Tenri Universisty Students at the Noh Theatre

The bosses and this years organizing committee.

Jayzon (former IMD intern), Prof. Rodrigo (Ateneo de Manila University), Asai-sensei (Open University of Japan), Me, Michelle, Yancy and Miggy (grad students from Ateneo) at the banquet held at Nikko Nara Hotel

Yvonne Roger’s keynote on the sacred Noh Theatre