Post-Pandemic Digital Education: Investigating Smart Workspaces within the Higher Education Sector

Human collaborations have been challenging with increased dependence on traditional human computer interaction technologies during the pandemic, especially in the education sector. Where conventional learning spaces have not been effective, opportunities have arisen for novel digital innovations to develop a future-proof more realistic learning environment. In the era of post-pandemic digital living, a hybrid approach incorporating Internet of Things and augmented reality will transform future classrooms into highly immersive and collaborative learning spaces. This paper examines smart workspaces within the Higher Education sector and presents an energy efficient, future proof, and collaborative framework for smart learning environments.

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M A Hannan Bin Azhar

Emily Louise Lepore

Tasmina Islam

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Publication date: July 2021

Publication date (Print): July 2021

Pages: 284-288

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[0001]School of Engineering Technology & Design

Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

[0002]Department of Informatics

King’s College London, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2021.30

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Conference name: 34th British HCI Conference

Conference acronym: HCI2021

Conference number: 34

Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 20th - 21st July 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Post-pandemic HCI – Living Digitally

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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[1] M. Abdel-Basset, M. Gunasekaran, M. Mohamed, and E. Rushdy (2018) Internet of things in smart educational environment: Supportive framework in the decision-making process, Wiley, Special issue paper, Pages: 1-12.

[2] M Afshar Alam and A. Saiyeda (2020) A Cloud Based Solution for Smart Education. Volume 11, Issue 2. Pages 28-29.

[3] AVRSpot (2018) What is Augmented Reality (AR) and how does it work? Available at: https://www.avrspot.com/augmented-reality-ar-work/ (Accessed: 28/06/2021).

[4] M.H.B. Azhar, T. Islam and M. Alfieri (2017) Effects of students’ preferences in use of lighting and temperature on productivity in a university setting. In EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education (pp. 139-145). Springer, Cham.

[5] M. D. Baker and T. Abbo, (2020) Working Post-Pandemic: What Campus Employees Need (Now), Available at: https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2020/5/working-post-pandemic-what-campus-employees-need-now (Accessed: 28/06/2021).

[6] R Bajaj and V. Sharma (2018) Smart Education with artificial intelligence-based determination of learning styles, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Science, ICCIDS, Pages 835-841.

[7] British Land (2017) Smart offices A 2017 vision for the future, Available at: https://officeagenda.britishland.com/assets/pdfs/smart-offices.pdf (Accessed: 28/06/2021).

[8] J. Dongsik and K. Gerard (2019) AR Enabled IoT for a Smart and Interactive Environment: A Survey and Future Directions, Sensors, PMC.

[9] Ó. García, J. Prieto, R. Alonso and J. Corchado (2017) A framework to improve energy efficient behaviour at home through activity and context monitoring. Sensors, 17, 1749.

[10] D. Kaur (2018) How Smart Class Technology is Benefiting Education Sector. Available at: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/322587 (Accessed: 28/06/2021).

[11] B. Khan (2019) Trends in Workspace Design with IoT and Tech. Available at: https://www.wrld3d.com/blog/trends-in-workspace-design-with-iot-and-tech/ (Accessed: 28/06/2021).

[12] S.K. Manna, M.A.H.B Azhar and M. Sakel (2021) A Smart and Secure IoMT TeleNeurorehabilitation Framework for Post-stroke Patients, International Conference on Industrial Instrumentation & Control (ICI2C-2021), to be appeared on Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer ISSN: 1876-1100.

[13] Majunga Tower (2021) Eiffage construction’s showcase Project of Majunga Tower in Paris, http://www.eiffageconstruction.com/expertise/sh owcase-projects/majunga-tower (Accessed: 28/06/2021).

[14] F.M.M. Muhammad (2020) Extreme-SAX: Extreme Points Based Symbolic Representation for Time Series Classification. In: M. Song, IY. Song, G. Kotsis, A.M. Tjoa, I. Khalil (eds) Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery. DaWaK Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12393. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59065-9_10

[15] Posture Group (2019) Benefits of sit stand desks on your posture and work health & well-being. Available at: https://www.posturegroup.co.uk/blog/benefits-of-sit-stand-desks-on-your-posture-and-work-health-and-wellbeing (Accessed: 28/06/2021).

[16] A. Reyna, C. Martín, J. Chen, E. Soler, M. Díaz (2018) On blockchain and its integration with IoT. Challenges and opportunities. Future Gener. Comput. Syst., 88, 173–190.

[17] SpaceIQ (2020) What is a Collaborative Workspace, really? Available at: https://spaceiq.com/blog/what-is-a-collaborative-workspace/ (Accessed: 28/06/2021).

[18] Unique Tech News (2017) Smart office solutions in the world's most sustainable building, Available at: https://uniquetechsolutions.co.uk/smart-office-solutions-in-the-edge-amsterdam/ (Accessed: 28/06/2021).

[19] Wired (2018) The Workplace of the Future. Available at: https://www.wired.com/brandlab/2018/06/the-workplace-of-the-future/ (Accessed: 28/06/2021).

[20] ZigBee (2021) Why Zigbee? Why should I use Zigbee in my products and services? Available at: https://zigbeealliance.org/why-zigbee/ (Accessed: 28/06/2021).

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