EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Education: Effective Approaches in Learning and Teaching Creativity and Innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. CSF Dream Academy: Using Fiction, Cardboard and Simple Electrical Circuits as Educational Tools to Lift Disadvantaged Children Out of the Poverty Trap

      • Víctor Zamudio, Victor Callaghan

      Pages 3-17

   3. Using a Creative Science Approach for Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Postgraduate Students

      • Víctor Zamudio, María del Pilar Pérez Mata, Victor Callaghan, Shumei Zhang, Carlos Lino

      Pages 19-25

   4. Creating Content for Educational Testing Using a Workflow That Supports Automatic Item Generation

      • Mark J. Gierl, Donna Matovinovic, Hollis Lai

      Pages 27-38

   5. Alternative Learning Experiences: An Innovative Project Stimulating Creative Faculty of Humanities Students

      • Rabeya Binte Habib

      Pages 39-61

   6. Teaching Creativity in the Context of a Business School

      • Andrew Jackson

      Pages 63-69

   7. Enhancing Student Retention Within Higher Education

      • Kam Gill

      Pages 71-77

   8. Educating Responsible Innovators-to-Be: Hands-on Participation with Biotechnology

      • Amalia Kallergi, Robert Zwijnenberg

      Pages 79-94

   9. Smart Enhanced Context-Aware for Flipped Mobile Learning: SECA-FML

      • Fatima Ezzahraa Louhab, Ayoub Bahnasse, Mohamed Talea

      Pages 95-107

   10. Designing Interactive Tools for Learning in the Digital Age

       • Andre Campos, Mário Rodrigues, Marlene Amorim, Alberto Signoretti

       Pages 109-119

   11. Semantic-Based Search Engine System for Graph Images in Academic Literature

       • Sarunya Kanjanawattana, Masaomi Kimura

       Pages 121-134

   12. Improving Higher Education Quality in Jordan Using Mobile Technologies for Better Socio-economic Diversity Integration of Disadvantaged Groups Using a Mobile Multimedia/Augmented Reality Workflow

       • Jazz Rasool, Carl H. Smith

       Pages 135-146

3. Technology and Innovation: Models and Processes for Managing Firm Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Logistic Model-Based Evaluation of Anti-counterfeiting Effectiveness for Consumer Goods: Based on Cognition of Companies and Consumers

      • Liu Xia, Tang Wanjin, Liu Bisong, Li Ya, Wu Qian, Liu Tiezhong

      Pages 149-162

   3. Idea Validation for an Acceleration Program Connected with Equity-Based Crowdfunding

      • Rastislav Petráš, Jaromíra Vaňová, Martina Horváthová, Miloš Mrva

      Pages 163-178

   4. Science Fiction Prototypes Illustrating Future See-Through Digital Structures in Mobile Work Machines

      • Tiina Kymäläinen, Olli Suominen, Susanna Aromaa, Vladimir Goriachev

      Pages 179-193

   5. Developing the Business Process Management Performance of an Information System Using the Delphi Study Technique

      • Hisham AbouGrad, Jon Warwick, Amare Desta

      Pages 195-210

   6. A Low-Cost Portable Health Platform for Monitoring of Human Physiological Signals

      • Keiran Brown, Emanuele Lindo Secco, Atulya Kumar Nagar

      Pages 211-224

   7. Proposal for Information and Communications Technologies that Are Essential to Smart City Dimensions

      • Hemalata Vasudavan, Sumathi Balakrishnan

      Pages 225-240

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education (TIE 2017), which took place at Canterbury Christ Church University on September 11-12, 2017. The central theme of the conference is creativity and innovation, especially in relation to technology, business, education, social and political needs that make modern society flourish. The proceedings feature papers from a cross-disciplinary audience that explore the process of creativity and innovation. The goal is that the various disciplines can learn from each other and see how they might benefit from the cross-fertilization of practices.

• Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education
• TIE 2017
• Creativity and innovation
• Multi-disciplinary technology
• Interdisciplinary technology
• Cross-disciplinary technology

• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Castelldefels, Spain

  Angelica Reyes-Munoz

• Business School, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK

  Ping Zheng

• Ravensbourne University, London, UK

  David Crawford

• University of Essex, Colchester, UK

  Victor Callaghan

Angélica Reyes holds a Ph.D. with a Doctoral European mention from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) 2003. She has been working at the Computer Architecture Department of the UPC since 2004. Currently, she is an associate professor at the School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering of Castelldefels (EETAC) and member of the ICARUS research group. Her research interests are in the fields of vehicular communications networks and cognitive workload assessment.

Ping Zheng was awarded her Ph.D. in Management from University of Kent (UK) in 2007, after completing an MBA with distinction at the same school in 2003. Before embarking on an academic career, she worked as executive manager for number of years in a US-owned joint venture developing business relations between US and China. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University Business School in the UK. Prior to this she was a Lecturer at Essex Business School of Universityof Essex from 2006 to 2010. Her research interests range from entrepreneurship and innovation in SMEs to institutional change and firm growth strategies in emerging economies. She has published on a numerous journals, such as Journal of General Management, Thunderbird International Business Review, Futures. She received the “Best Paper Award” at the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Annual Conference in 2010. She is also the principal author (with Prof. Richard Scase) of a book (research monograph) - “Emerging Business Ventures under Market Socialism: Entrepreneurship in China” (Routledge, London, 2014). Her recent book chapter adopts a novel future perspective in analyzing the possible future outcome of technological change, 'How change agencies can affect our path towards a signgularity' is published by Springer. 


David Crawford has been working as a Professor at the University of Essex at Colchester, lecturing in ‘Transmission Systems’ and ‘Intellectual Property’, and with research interests in high capacity networks and broadcasting for ‘beyond HD’ multimedia. He has worked for over 40 years in the telecoms & broadcast industries and academia, and has led both ETSI Standardisation and DVB Technical Work Groups. David is a Member of the Royal Television Society, Fellow and Council Board Member of the IET, Editor of the EBU Tech Review, Director of a small French start-up, and Executive Producer for the industry’s annual ‘IBC’ Conference in Amsterdam. David is now a staff member at Ravensbourne working as the Associate Course Leader for this Work Based Learning course, and as a Consultant helping to build up the research project portfolio at Rave.


Victor Callaghan is a professor emeritus at University of Essex, Department of Computer Science. His previous positions include Head of Brooker Laboratory, Director of Industrial Collaboration, IT Policy Steering Committee, VR Steering Committee, Community Technology Committee, Academic, Assistant Editor CSE. Areas of expertise include Intelligent embedded systems, Mobile robots, Community Technology.

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