The devices facilitated engagement and group interactions on residential fieldwork.
Users can also be geo-targeted (including via geofencing), or targeted based on other metrics like loyalty, engagement, device, or software version, for example.
What's interesting about this implementation, however, is that it simultaneously puts the focus on the device while increasing engagement with what's happening on field.
Four types of multimodal resources as engagement devices are identified, i.e. labeling, dialog balloons, jointly-constructed texts and illustrations.
There is research revealing a correlation between the use of such devices and student engagement as well as progress of students' achievement (Chou, Block, & Jesness, 2012).
Studers tells me that in future the company will expand in the area of "crowd engagement devices" and explore other revenue models.
Whether it's mobile devices, telehealth, patient engagement tools, or new care & payment models, St . Lukes will lead in a living laboratory.
Airborne believes that its technology can help change the consumer experience within a multitude of these noisy environments and bridge the gap between mobile devices and customer engagement displays.
The use of intertextual references in this excerpt support the explicit evaluative lexis used, and point to the fact that engagement devices, rather than specifically attitudinal lexis, operate in these texts to invoke evaluative stances towards not only people and objects, but also propositions (c.f. Hunston &Thompson 2000, Ch1).
Facebook hopes that its device-agnostic approach, high engagement, and global ubiquity can make up for it being a layer rather than a OS / device platform on mobile.
