Turning Mobile Phones Into a Mobile Quiz Platform to Challenge Players' Knowledge: An Experience Report

In the past few years, many new mobile technologies including the 3G, WiFi or mobileTV have created unprecedented learning opportunities on mobile devices. Furthermore, such technologies continuously fuel the rapid growth of new fields of research like the edutainment for educational entertainment. In a recent project awarded by the Hong Kong Wireless Development Center, one has developed a mobile quiz game system on 3G mobile phone networks in China, Hong Kong or other countries to facilitate learning anytime and anywhere. The developed mobile quiz system is so generic that it can be readily extended to any wireless network.