diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9d5553baeec1a3fe92d4c9528a0d3093f70b68cb..81518775303c608bf82c7573635e27e1b2fa1283 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,30 +1,9 @@ # MOBILES -## Description -The MOBILES project explores the experiences of places and the socialization of international students through digital practices. It aims to provide an in-depth analysis of students' spatial practices and their material and sensory realities, including places, rhythms, social interactions, and emotions. This interdisciplinary project combines insights from sociolinguistics, geography, and computer science to enhance the understanding of experiential learning spaces and social, linguistic, and cultural learning. +## Project Overview +The MOBILES project explores international students' experiences in urban spaces through digital practices, offering an in-depth analysis of how they navigate and socialize within these environments. By examining students’ spatial practices and their sensory and material experiences, MOBILES reveals insights into the rhythm, social interactions, and emotional dimensions of settling in a new city. This interdisciplinary endeavor draws on sociolinguistics, geography, and computer science to better understand experiential learning spaces and support cultural, linguistic, and social adaptation. In collaboration with three research labs—ICAR (sociolinguistics and didactics), EVS (geography and geomatics), and LIRIS (computer science)—the project integrates diverse perspectives on language socialization, spatial practices, and the use of digital tools to enrich students’ understanding of their new surroundings. Together, the labs contribute to building a mobile application that allows students to document their experiences in a way that enhances learning through real-world exploration and interaction. -### Project Objectives -1. **Analyze Spatial Practices**: Understand the production of experiential learning spaces and the social, linguistic, and cultural learning of international students by analyzing their spatial practices and material and sensory realities. -2. **Utilize Geolocation and Mapping Tools**: Develop a cartographic application to facilitate the documentation of spatial practices using geolocation and mapping tools. -3. **Implement a User-Based Recommendation System**: Study how a recommendation system based on user participation can be established to support new linguistic and social experiences. - -### Interdisciplinary Collaboration -The MOBILES project is a collaborative effort involving three laboratories: - -- **ICAR, CNRS (Sociolinguistics and Didactics)** - - Examine the relationship between spatial practices and language socialization. - - Develop a digital pedagogical framework around socio-spatial experiences via a mobile application. - -- **EVS, CNRS (Geography/Geomatics)** - - Study spatial practices, digitize data from these practices, and facilitate participatory mapping. - - Explore the sensory experience of space and social geography. - -- **LIRIS, CNRS (Computer Science)** - - Implement computational and application tools. - - Manage digital traces and annotations. - - Analyze recommendations and their effects on practices. - -### Application Overview +## MOBILES App The MOBILES application offers international students the opportunity to collect, document, and enrich their city journeys using GPS technology. They can create personalized routes, both automatically via GPS and manually by drawing their own paths on an interactive map. Users can add detailed annotations, including text, icons, photos, tags, and moods, to express their personal and sensory experiences, reflecting their appropriation of the city. This allows them to create narratives of their settlement, express their impressions, and share their discoveries with others, turning the city into an open journal to personalize and exchange. ## Features