Research

CMER's goal is to become a world-wide leader in mobile education and learning, helping universities in integrating mobile devices into their computing curricula, commercializing cuttin edge innovations, and creating new enterprises.

CMER's research areas are diverse and cover the design and development of applications and services to enable mobile learning, mobile services, and multimedia-rich services. Major research areas include:

• Mobile education and learning
• Mobile apps & service innovation
• Business models for mobile apps & services
• Cloud computing on mobile devices
• Multimedia-rich mobile services
• Web services for mobile learning
• Privacy, security, and trust of mobile services

Publications

Research results and findings are disseminated through white papers, academic kits, and publications in leading conferences and journals.

White Papers

• BlackBerry Wireless Devices in CS Education
• Integrating Mobile Devices into the Computer Science Curriculum

Academic Kit

This academic kit has been created to facilitate the integration of mobile devices into CS and engineering courses for universities and colleges worldwide. The kit takes a mobile approach to teaching CS topics with a focus on Java ME and BlackBerry application development.

It is expected that the teaching material will assist instructors and students in learning about the enormous potential in building mobile applications.

Register and start using the kit today.

Conference and Journal Papers

• Mahmoud, Q.H.: Best Practices in Teaching Mobile Application Development. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Joint Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), Darmstadt, Germany, June 2011, pp. 333.
• Mahmoud, Q.H.: A Mobile Web-based Approach to Introductory programming. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Joint Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), Darmstadt, Germany, June 2011, pp. 334.
• Mahmoud, Q.H., Ngo, T., Niazi, R., Popowicz, P., Sydoryshyn, R., Wilks, M., and Dietz, D.: An Academic Kit for Integrating Mobile Devices into the CS Curriculum. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), Paris, France, July 2009, pp. 40-44.
• Niazi, R., and Mahmoud, Q.H.: Design and Development of a Device-Independent System for Mobile Learning. In IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 2008, pp. 63-68.
• Mahmoud, Q.H., and Dyer, A.: Mobile Devices in an Introductory Programming Course. In IEEE Computer, June 2008.
• Mahmoud, Q.H., and Dyer, A.: Integrating BlackBerry Wireless Devices into Computer Programming and Literacy Courses. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual ACM Southeast Regional Conference (ACMSE), Winston-Salem, NC, USA, March 2007, pp. 495-500.

Posters

• Mahmoud, Q.H., Mair, N., Mohamed, Y., Dhillon, S.: Hands-on Labs for a Mini-Course on Mobile Application Development. 43th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Raleigh, NC, USA, Feb/March 2012.
• Mahmoud, Q.H.: Mobile Devices in Computer Science Education. Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days (MEDD), Santa Clara, CA, USA, January 2008.
• Mahmoud, Q.H., and Dyer, A.: Integrating BlackBerry Wireless Devices into Computer Programming and Literacy Courses. 38th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Covington, KC, USA, March 2007.