PURPOSE The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of the build angle and the support configuration (thick versus thin support) on the dimensional accuracy of 3D-printed full-coverage dental restorations. MATERIALS AND METHODS A full-coverage dental crown was digitally designed and 3D-printed using stereolithography-additive manufacturing (SLA-AM) technology. Nine different angle...

The practice of teaching and learning Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design has to develop its own approaches that balance method and technology use with reflective and situated practice. We present our HCI design studio course that makes a combined use of constructivist pedagogies and virtual worlds aiming to aid students reflect on the use of related methods and technologies in design and t...

Technology is transforming the education and practice of architecture and design. The newest form of education is blended learning, which combines personal interaction from live class sessions with online education for greater learning flexibility (Abrams & Haefner, 2002). Reluctant to join the digital era are educators teaching studio courses (Bender & Good, 2003), who may be unaware of the po...

The paper presents an interactive game-like application to learn, perform and evaluate modern contemporary singing. The Human Beat Box (HBB) is being used as a case study. The game consists of two main modules. A sensor module that consists of a portable helmet based system containing an ultrasonic (US) transducer to capture tongue movements, a video camera for the lips, Kinect camera for face ...

We present a new highly interactive computer animation tool to increase the mathematical skills of deaf children. We aim at increasing the effectiveness of (hearing) parents in teaching arithmetic to their deaf children, and the opportunity of deaf children to learn arithmetic via interactive media. Using state-ofthe-art computer animation technology we have designed and modeled three 3-dimensi...

Recently, a laser scanner technology has been receiving more attention. Nowadays use of terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) is continuously increasing. This technique offers the possibility of measuring millions of points within short period of time. Thus, it is possible to record complete 3D objects efficiently. In this communication the process followed to model the hull and the deck of the ship...

This article reports on the use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software for developing a dynamic environment for an online public access catalogue (OPAC). COTS products are widely used throughout the industry. While there are many potential benefits, use of COTS components is also fraught with pitfalls. The research on creating a dynamic environment for OPACs is based on the previous work i...

The “Algorithms Studio” project explores a novel, studio-based approach to teaching an undergraduate course on computer algorithms. Inspired by the design studio commonly used in architecture education, the approach emphasizes conceptual design activities in which students use sketch-based algorithm visualization technology to create their own visual representations of the algorithms under stud...

The Web Services Modelling Framework (WSMF) and the Web Services Modelling Ontology (WSMO) provide a unique, highly innovative perspective onto the Semantic Web and Web Service technologies. This paper presents the WSMO Studio – a prototype that supports and elaborates this innovative perspective, making the technology easy to use and transparent for the end user. Our previous work on the SWWS ...

RT-Studio (Real Time Studio) is an integrated environment for modeling, simulation and automatic verification of realtime systems modeled as networks of Interpreted Time Petri Nets (ITPNs). The tool allows to construct several abstractions for ITPNs suitable to verify reachability, linear and branching properties, in addition to a TCTL model checker. In this paper we describe the ITPN model as ...