PpMC (Pocket PC-mediated communication) in a catering school Students as core business of information technology development

MOWECS (Mobile Wireless Education in a Catering School) is a HP and Siemens funded project, whose aim is to investigate the best use of mobile wireless devices in a catering school to enhance teaching 'on the job' (in the kitchen, in the laundry, in the rooms). The project is being developed at SAFI, a residential professional school, from October 2004 to October 2005. Within this scenario we analyzed all the existing structures of communication and monitored the change in these structures during the phases of users' training to the new technologies and of development of mobile contents. We aimed to make it easier learning and working with pocket devices by putting people and the interaction among them in the centre of the process of innovation and evaluating advantages and disadvantages not only for the 'on the job' training, but also for communication and interaction.