— Currently most on-campus universities provide an LMS to support teaching and learning. Although most of them gather usage statistics, these are rarely used to improve the quality of education. In this paper, a data analysis methodology is proposed. This methodology facilitates a continuous improvement of the LMS, and includes an inferential analysis which relates usage statistics to education...

Since the eleventh century, the establishment of municipal institutions (Concelhos) in Portugal followed the process of creation of the country itself. Military reasons were present in this association because of the constant state of war with bordering Islam. The Concelhos helped to secure the conquests through the settlement of population. However we find this is only a partial description of...

Binaural sound perception allows humans to localize sound sources in space. Modern spatialization soundcards already offer the possibility to place virtual sounds in a virtual auditory environment. We use this to augment the acoustical environments of blind users with virtual auditory interaction objects („hearcons“) representing the interaction objects of a webbrowser GUI. The cursor is also r...

Docx2tex is a small command line tool to support users of Word 2007 to publish documents when typography is important or only papers produced by TEX are accepted. Behind the scenes, docx2tex uses common technologies to interpret Word 2007 OOXML format without utilizing the API of Word 2007. Docx2tex is published as a free and open source utility that is accessible and extensible by everyone. Th...

Enabling serendipitous interoperability in smart environments This document was typeset using L A T E X and the typographical look-and-feel classicthesis developed by André Miede. The style was inspired by Robert Bringhurst's seminal book on typography " The Elements of Typographic Style ". A catalogue record is available from the Eindhoven University of Technology Library. i framing the proble...

Nowadays, TEX and its successors still use METAFONT or PostScript Type 1 as their primary font formats, while the “outside world” is moving on to OpenType, a likely candidate for the future font standard in computer-based typography. The project we are going to present in this article represents the first step of a long-term plan of adapting the fullΩ system toOpenType. As a result of our work,...

SUMMARY Document structure provides facilities for accessing and presenting hypermedia documents, and style sheets support their layout on screen (or paper). However, little attention is given to the quality of these documents in terms of typography, in the sense, for example, of abiding by the rules of the Chicago Manual of Style. This paper shows how the specification of typographic sheets ca...