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Figure 6. Distribution of tag usage across pilots. Data from the parking pilot was not available for
analysis due to technical problem with logs.
40,7% stated that the information provided was
not interesting. Most improvement ideas sug-
gested the provision of more challenging tasks,
for example by including physical activity and
increasing the variety of tasks. The following user
excerpts illustrate ideas for improvement related
to the content expressed by the pupils after the
lesson:
pervising the control points to check that all the
tasks would be performed correctly.” (translated
by the authors)
One factor contributing to negative attitude
towards the Mobile Internet content provided
and related tasks may be the association made by
naming Amazing NFC after the popular TV show
The Amazing Race. The naming might have set
expectations and mental impressions that were
not fulfilled. The excitement and challenge level
of the TV show was not obviously reached dur-
ing the lesson.
Clearly the most interesting control point for
Amazing NFC participants was the visit to the
Zoological museum (see Figure 8).
The visit started with a bus journey, where the
pupils were able to use their mobile phones for
ticketing and touching information tags available
inside the bus. For other transitions, pupils used
“I would like to have more interesting content
and more difficult questions at the control points.”
“There should be more challenge at control points.
Now the maps were not actually needed and the
questions were too easy.”
“The tasks should have been longer, and more
effort should have been required to find answers
to questions, because now all just guessed the
answers. There should have been someone su-
Figure 7. Feelings towards Amazing NFC according to the mobile survey made right after the lesson
(n=133)
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