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The Activity Board 1.0: RFID-NFC WI-FI Multitags Desktop Reader for Education and Rehabilitation Applications

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The Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) and in particular, the RFID/NFC technologies are natural candidates to enhance some well-known psycho-pedagogical practices in a Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) approach. The paper shows the prototype named Activity Board 1.0: an RFID prototype developed for the educational and rehabilitation aims. The innovative and strong assets of the prototype are: the Wi-Fi connection with the main device; and the multi-tags nature allowing more smart-objects at the same time. These two features are decisive for the educative and rehabilitative environments recovering practices based on the manipulation and multisensoriality (e.g. Montessori an pedagogy, exercises for cognitive diseases, etc.). In addition, in the article, the authors show some application where the Activity Board is already applied with success.

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Notes

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    Sold by Tertium Technology (OEM Electronic Card able to manage reading and writing of HF RFID tags) (http://www.tertiumtechnology.com/it/bluerfid_hf.php).

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    https://www.particle.io/products/hardware/photon-wifi-dev-kit.

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    https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13626.

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Acknowledgments

Partially supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under the PON Research and competitiveness 2007–2013 (SCN_00427): Smart Cities for Social Inclusion. Special thanks to the partners involved in the research project “INF@NZIA DIGI.tales 3.6”.

The BlockMagic project (517936-LLP-1-IT-COMENIUS-CMP) has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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Di Fuccio, R., Siano, G., De Marco, A. (2017). The Activity Board 1.0: RFID-NFC WI-FI Multitags Desktop Reader for Education and Rehabilitation Applications. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 570. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56538-5_69

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