Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

A prototype context-aware smartphone app was developed comprising an integrated suite of navigation, information, social interaction, language learning and game playing services for non-European immigrants, and it was trialled in four major cities across Europe (Gaved et al. 2012; Kukulska-Hulme, Norris and Donohue 2015) In the process of trying to understand how the app would be used in both planned and spontaneous ways in the city, we developed an Incidental Learning Framework as a way to map everyday tasks to dimensions of time, place, tools, social support and outcomes of the immigrant’s learning journey.