Overview
COMP 637 illustrates how mobile computing works, what mobile computing involves, and the different applications that mobile computing offers to people, employees, and businesses. Students will become familiar with the technologies/topics they prefer and will have the opportunity to thoroughly investigate these topics through discussion with their peers. Students will play a significant role in searching, defining, refining, and updating information regarding the latest mobile computing infrastructures, technologies, and applications, and their contributions will be used as resources for future students.
Students will also have the opportunity to delve into more specific technology and/or application domains by forming a small special interest group (SIG) with their fellow students. In addition, through presentations, Q&A, and debates, students will have the opportunity to further explore specific topics.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to
- explain the principles and theories of mobile computing technologies.
- describe infrastructures and technologies of mobile computing technologies.
- list applications in different domains that mobile computing offers to the public, employees, and businesses.
- describe the possible future of mobile computing technologies and applications.
- effectively communicate course work through written and oral presentations.
Evaluation
To receive credit for COMP 637, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least B- (70 percent).
The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
| Activity | Weight |
| Assignment 1: Reflection | 15% |
| Assignment 2: Comments | 15% |
| Assignment 3: Glossaries | 20% |
| Assignment 4: Presentation Slides for Q&A | 20% |
| Contributions | 20% |
| Literature Review | 10% |
| Total | 100% |
- Reflection (15%) (discuss/post your thoughts and questions for each unit)
- Comments (15%) (respond to questions and discuss issues with your peers)
- Glossaries (20%) (a group mark, based on the SIG's creation of glossary topics that include history, background, theory and principles, examples, applications, further studies, references, internal links to relevant glossaries, external links to other resources)
- Presentation (20%) (using plain language, give the audience a smooth, integrated talk instead of presenting two or three topics/papers separately)
- Contributions (20%) (1/3 from glossaries, 1/3 from reflection, and 1/3 from comments)
- Literature Review (10%) (an individual mark based on the review of the literature in Unit 6, preparatory to the writing of the glossaries; 1/6 from comments, 1/6 from reflection, 1/3 from glossaries, 1/3 from presentation)
TOTAL 100% Materials
Digital course materials
Links to the following course materials will be made available in the course:
Readings for this course will be taken entirely from online resources, typically accessed via the academic journal databases available in the AU Library, Google Scholar, Google Book, Google, and CiteSeerX. Current, significant literature and presentations representing hot topics for discussion will be selected and added to the recommended reading materials, glossaries, presentations, and news feeds on the Brightspace discussion topics.