Learning about narrative and spectatorship in film studies lends itself to active forms of learning. This paper reports on the participatory development between film studies and learning design of an activity called Director's Cut. A class of 250 undergraduate students created their own film sequence applying their understandings of genre, screenwriting and editing in order to manipulate how fi...

Resumo: A utilização de sistemas de conhecimento em problemas que não são totalmente conhecidos ou bem definidos permite entender esses problemas de maneira exploratória, simulando situações e soluções utilizando técnicas de inteligência artificial. A abordagem inicial utilizada nos projetos de pesquisa do grupo tinha como foco apenas verificar a presença de atributos de transparência em modelo...

Both short excerpts from, and full-length presentation of feature films have been used with success in undergraduate instruction. Studies of such use of films has revealed that incorporation of film viewing within courses can promote both content mastery and the development of critical thinking skills. This article discusses and provides examples of successful use of two methods that may be use...

the objective of this study was to determine the chronology of changes in blood pressure in renalhypertension induced by solid plexiglass clips in rats. saw blades with the thickness of 0.21-0.22 mm wereused to make clips sized 4 × 2 × 2 mm from a piece of 2-mm thick plexiglass. rats were subjected to shamoperation or left renal arterial clipping, and 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks later blood pressure, a...

Digital video data distribution through the internet is becoming more common. Film trailers, video clips and even video footage from computer and video games are now seen as very powerful means to boost sales of the aforementioned products. These materials need to be protected to avoid copyright infringement issues. However, these materials are encoded at a low bit-rate to facilitate internet d...

In 3 experiments, the question of viewpoint dependency in mental representations of dynamic scenes was addressed. Participants viewed film clips of soccer episodes from 1 or 2 viewpoints; they were then required to discriminate between video stills of the original episode and distractors. Recognition performance was measured in terms of accuracy and speed. The degree of viewpoint deviation betw...

A hierarchical representation of objects is dynamically generated from the input of a virtual vision system. It is used to analyze a sequence of actions and extract behavior rules that can be utilized by the inference machine CLIPS. The vision system is assumed to provide simplified positional and shape information about visible 3D silhouettes in a frame per frame basis. A virtual agent, attemp...

Digital video data distribution through the internet is becoming more common. Film trailers, video clips and even video footage from computer and video games are now seen as very powerful means to boost sales of the aforementioned products. These materials need to be protected to avoid copyright infringement issues. However, these materials are encoded at a low bit-rate to facilitate internet d...