In this paper we present PRACTIONIST Studio, which is an integrated design and development environment for BDI agent-based systems, providing facilities and tools to represent the concepts and intentional elements underlying such a model as well as several common features offered by UMLbased tools. PRACTIONIST Studio aims at bridging the gap between the increasing trend of developing BDI-based ...

The GPS units are presented as a powerful technology enabling students to learn basic ideas of motion, along with concepts of physical geography. The use of GPS technology in this way is a form of studio based education (close-to-life collaborative construction contexts). Such a context enables students to construct and analyze their own data, thus providing an opportunity to develop critical g...

The Web Services Modelling Framework (WSMF) and the Web Services Modelling Ontology (WSMO) provide a unique, highly innovative perspective onto Semantic Web and Web Service technologies. We present in this paper the SWWS Studio – a prototype that supports and elaborates that perspective, making the technology easy to use and transparent for the end user. At present the SWWS Studio is comprised ...

Design is a social phenomenon and researchers suggest that social interaction, negotiations and communication between designers are essential to initiate creativity. Within the design studio environment, a number of factors affect the healthy social interaction and design negotiations, such as the teaching style of tutors and the culture that governs a design studio’s environment. This may in t...

The ballroom dancing showcases at Fred Astaire East Side Dance Studio in Manhattan are held at least twice a year and provide the students with an environment for socializing, practice, and improvement. The most important part of a showcase organization is the construction of the dance presentations timetable, and, with the number of participants increasing each year, this task (usually perform...

The Thinking Inside the Box project (TItB) seeks to address pragmatic concerns inherent to mixed music performance, and proposes ways to better consider the sound of the acoustic reality of the concert space at studio composition time. This is achieved through empirical investigation into subversive use of recent developments in hardware and software technologies. The primary concerns are (1) o...

We have been working on speech retrieval from Chinese (Cantonese) television news programs. The use of automatic speech recognition for audio indexing produces imperfect transcriptions, and recognition errors affect retrieval performance. A news story typically contains a brief report by the anchor person(s) in the studio, as well as news footage from the field. Investigation shows that our rec...

This paper evaluates a studio-based teaching model in a core first year subject of a traditionally delivered IT degree at an Australian university. It reports on first year students’ reactions to four aspects of the studio-based teaching and learning environment: the physical learning space, IT tools and infrastructure, teaching philosophy, and portfolio assessment. Data was obtained through on...