The use of virtual reality on the Web offers exciting opportunities in several application fields (e.g. cultural heritage, elearning, e-commerce). Nevertheless, the adoption of such technology is not as widespread as one would expect. The main reasons can be found both in the difficulties for the development of virtual environments, which requires a collection of advanced skills and a variety o...

This article explores gender in contemporary museum exhibitions, with a focus on fashion exhibitions. It reveals how the concepts of and are embodied through an analysis aiming to discuss issues pertinent exhibitions explore implications for development. To achieve study purpose, it begins introduction relationship between further discusses its representation museums. The role that museums play...

This work addresses how the history of Portuguese colonial war and its mnemonic productions are (non)represented in Armed Forces museums (Army, Air Force, Navy). Through an analysis textual visual contents exhibitions, activity reports, institutional communication texts; site visits; interviews with museums’ staff, I seek to identify examine contexts creation these spaces production exhibitions...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether physician-patient communication in multi-bedded rooms differs from communication in single rooms during ward rounds. METHODS Ward rounds in single-bedded patient rooms and ward rounds in four-bedded rooms were audiotaped and analyzed with an adapted version of MIARS. The researcher completed an observational checklist of each encounter. We measured: the duration o...

Intelligent rooms are responsive environments in which human activities are monitored and responses are generated to facilitate these activities. Research and development on intelligent rooms currently focuses on the integration of multiple sensor devices with pre-programmed responses to specific triggers. Developments in intelligent agents towards intrinsically motivated learning agents can be...

In order to explore global biennials of contemporary art, this study provides a geospatial analysis eleven examine where artists are drawn from in these international exhibitions. The project aims cut across broad scope held multiple regions how circulating the world, they showing and, most importantly, defining art era globalization. By mapping series around globe over several iterations 2010s...

For development of more convenient and useful applications, context-awareness has long been studied. This paper introduces an Android app that detects the current location, moving status, and watching status of the visitor. Our app investigates accelerometer values in order to determine moving status. With the accelerometer and orientation values our app determines the current location and watc...

The confluence of pervasive computing, anywhere/anytime access to information resources and scalable computing enables the construction of smart environments or Active Spaces. In such a Space, a spectrum of computation and communication devices seamlessly augment human thought and activity with digital information, processing, and analysis to provide an observed or imagined world that is automa...