Virtual visits on the Web are an important means to publicize a museum collection and attract visitors. Software applications for building virtual exhibitions, in addition to being tools to create content for virtual visits, may help the staff of a museum to conceive and mount exhibitions. This paper presents the Virtual Exhibition Builder, an interactive software tool aimed at the creation of ...

Photomosaic arranges many small photographs to represent a large image. Our study applies the photomosaic to a photograph browser CAT. Our implementation displays photomosaic while zooming out, and individual photographs while zooming in. Here, many photograph browsing software displays a set of photographs in the order of their times. To maintain this order of photographs, our photomosaic gene...

Music production relies increasingly on advanced hardware and software tools that makes the creative process more flexible and versatile. The advancement of these tools helps reduce both the time and money required to create music. This paper presents research towards enhancing the functionality of a key tool, the drum machine. We add the ability to learn how to groove from human drummers, an i...

This paper is a product of a workshop on the Future of Visual Analytics, held in Washington, DC on 4 March 2009. Workshop attendees included representatives from the visual analytics research community across government, industry and academia. The goal of the workshop, and the resulting papers, was to reflect on the first 5 years of the visual analytics enterprise and propose research challenge...

This paper reports on the design and development of an electronic classroom and conference room which was opened in the city of Linz, Austria, in late 1996. This room was developed in a multidisciplinary approach and contains several unique features. After an introduction about the background, rationale for merging the concepts of classroom and conference room, and an overview about the four la...

In October 1996, we organized the sixth in a series of workshops on software tools for high-performance computing. With funding from the Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the goal of this workshop was to explore the feasibility of creating a national software tool testing a...

This paper presents results of our research that targets the improvement of workgroup efficiency with technological support for the management of group-related information. We built a software tool that enables all the people in a workgroup to work with information related to their common projects. We present our solution: the theoretical concepts that are implemented, its structure, functional...

This paper describes a method for providing feedback about the degree of complexity that is present in particular texts. Both the method and the software tool called TexComp are designed for use during the assessment of student compositions (such as essays and theses). The method is based on a cautious approach to the application of readability and lexical diversity formulas for reasons that ar...

ABSTRACT There has been much interest in using software tools to scaffold learners in complex tasks, that is, to provide supports that enable students to deal with more complex content and skill demands than they could otherwise handle. Many different approaches to scaffolding techniques have been presented in a broad range of software tools. We discuss two mechanisms to explain how software to...

.................................................................................................................................. 2 1. Corporate Sustainability – an Introduction to Triple Bottom Line reporting........... 3 2. Measuring all indirect impacts ....................................................................................... 4 3. Unravelling the supply chain ....................