Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Development and Evaluation of a Lunar Observation Support System for Mobile Phones

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Development and Evaluation of a Lunar Observation Support System for Mobile Phones"
by Hitoshi Miyata, Mariko Suzuki, Michiko Fukahori, Tatsuhiko Akamatsu
in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies, November 2007

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper is a duplication of the original text from the paper cited below. The original text was resubmitted by Hitoshi Miyata without attribution (including appropriate references to the original publication) and without permission of his coauthors.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"Development and Evaluation of a Lunar Observation Support System for Mobile Phones"
by Hitoshi Miyata, Mariko Suzuki, Michiko Fukahori, Tatsuhiko Akamatsu
in the Proceedings of the 10th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, ACTA Press, October 2007, pp. 486-491


A Lunar Observation Project that utilizes mobile phones was undertaken with junior high school students as the subjects. A "Lunar Observation Support System" that can be used with mobile phones was developed. Using this system, students observe the Moon in the open air and send observational data through their mobile phones to the server; the server automatically stores the data in a database. The system also possesses a Computer- Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) feature through which students can share observational data with each other and engage in discussions. From a practical study, we found that students were able to send lunar observational data from their mobile phones effortlessly from the outdoors, and their interest, attention, attitude, and motivation toward nature observation improved. In addition, sharing each student's observational record on the Web Database and engaging the students in discussions led to the correction of simple false beliefs that students often have, such as "the Moon can be seen only during the night" and "the Moon rises at the same time everyday."