Accessible ecophysiological tools for seabird conservation

Towards Accessible Authoring Tools for Interactive Storytelling

This contribution presents and discusses Scenejo as an experimental platform for Interactive Digital Storytelling, focusing on the authoring process as initial viewpoint for its development. Special emphasis is on the construction of conversational threads for virtual actors using pattern matching, employing transition graph representations as the main interface for authoring. In the conclusion...

ADVANCED CONSERVATION STRATEGIES Maximizing Return on Investments for Island Restoration with a Focus on Seabird Conservation

Seabirds are among the most threatened groups of species. Seabirds are an important component of both marine and island ecosystems, and thus their conservation is inextricably linked with marine and island conservation. Invasive mammals are the major drivers of extinction and ecosystem change on islands and are the primary threat to seabirds. Three types of evidence suggest that the removal of ...

Biology and Conservation of the Juan Fernández Archipelago Seabird Community

Robots in the classroom - tools for accessible education

In this paper we describe some of the current and envisaged uses of this broad collection of technologies referred to as robots, within education. This is firstly from the general perspective but then with an emphasis on the benefits they bring to school and university students with disabilities. Introduction Robots have found widespread application in industry and are beginning to increasingly...

Accessible, Extensible, Scalable Tools for Wave Propagation Problems

Development of scientific software involves tradeoffs between ease of use, generality, and performance. We describe the design of a general hyperbolic PDE solver that can be operated with the convenience of MATLAB yet achieves efficiency near that of hand-coded Fortran and scales to the largest supercomputers. This is achieved by using Python for most of the code while employing automatically-w...