Tutorials
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Tutorial 1: Moodle
Dr Nabeel Al-Khulaifi
Abstract:
Moodle is a popular course management system that allow instructor to teach his students online. Several useful tools available as activities; assignments, attendance, blogs, chats, forums, glossaries, lessons, messages, SCORM, survey, quizzes, workshops, …etc. The power of e-learning can be explored through this open source code. This dimension can ease the education process and make the communication between teacher and students rapid and wealthy.
Biography:
Dr Nabeel Mansour Al-Khulaifi received his B.Sc. (1987) from Kuwait University and his masters in public health (1994) from School of Public Health, Boston University in 1994, and his Ph.D. from the School of Medicine, University of Newcastle, UK in 2003. Dr Al-Khulaifi has been using Moodle LMS since 2006 and developed several online courses since then. He is now leading new projects based on Moodle to benefit PAAET staff in the field.
Tutorial 2:
A Glimpse of Ambient Intelligence in the e-Society
Abstract:
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) characterizes a new e-society paradigm for interactions between a person and her/his everyday environment so as to enhance human capability and quality of life. This will impose major challenges on research to support human-centered information, communication and services everyday and everywhere.
The tutorial will focus on understanding enabling technologies such as smart environments, smart networked objects, augmented and mixed realities, ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, tangible computing, intelligent interfaces and wearable computing. It will also present some applications ranging from “Home care and safety” and “Health care” to “Information and Entertainment”. And will address, to a lesser extent, the socio-cultural impact we might be facing in the future.
The tutorial will consists of the following main parts:
- Introduction to Ambient Intelligence
- Architecture of Ambient Intelligence: Towards Pervasive Computing and Context Awareness in the e-society era
- Natural Human Computer Interaction paradigms
- Ambient Intelligence in Practice: Applications and future direction
- Socio-cultural impact of Ambient Intelligence
Biography:
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik is University Research Chair and Professor, SITE, University of Ottawa and recipient of the Professional of the Year Award (2008), the Friedrich Wilhelm-Bessel Research Award from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2007) the Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA 2004), and the National Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT) New Professorship Incentive Award (2004). He is the director of the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab). He is a Theme co-Leader in the LORNET NSERC Research Network. He is Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) and IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (IEEE TCIAIG) and Guest Editor for several IEEE Transactions and Journals. Dr. El Saddik has been serving on several technical program committees of numerous IEEE and ACM events. He has been the General Chair and/or Technical Program Chair of more than 20 international conferences symposia and workshops on collaborative hapto-audio-visual environments, multimedia communications and instrumentation and measurement. He was the general co-chair of ACM MM 2008. He is leading researcher in haptics, service-oriented architectures, collaborative environments and ambient interactive media and communications. He has authored and co-authored two books and more than 250 publications. He has received research grants and contracts totaling more than $10 million and has supervised more than 90 researchers. His research has been selected for the BEST Paper Award three times. Dr. El Saddik is a Senior Member of ACM, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the IEEE.