The availability of low-cost computational power is enabling development of increasingly sophisticated CAD software. Automation of design and manufacturing activities poses many diicult computational problems. Design is an interactive process and speed is a critical factor in systems that enable designers to explore and experiment with alternative ideas. As more downstream manufacturing activit...

Interactive art courses require a huge amount of computational resources to be running on real time. These computational resources are even bigger if the course has been designed as a Virtual Environment with which students can interact. In this paper, we present an initiative that has been develop in a close collaboration between two Spanish Universities: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and ...

The desirability and value of laboratory work for physics students is a wellestablished principle and issues arise where students are inherently remote from their host institution, as is the case for the UK's Open University. In this paper, we present developments from the Physics Innovations Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (piCETL) in the production and technology of the virtual...

In this paper, we present an integrated Semantic Web interactive visualization environment (ISWIVE) to visualize the information of Topic Maps and RDF. In ISWIVE, both the detailed resource descriptions and the overall topic relationship can be clearly displayed. Besides, the interactive local viewer and visual query interface facilitate browsing and searching over the Semantic Web resources.

Grid computing allows flexible resource sharing among geographically distributed computing resources in multiple administrative domains. Virtualization of resources allows jobs to be run on remote resources participating in a Grid. While this computing paradigm has been used primarily for batch jobs, we study interactive Grid applications rich in graphics and multimedia such as scientific visua...

Presented is webComputing – a general framework of mathematically oriented services including remote access to hardware and software resources for mathematical computations, and web interface to dynamic interactive computations and visualization in a diversity of contexts: mathematical research and engineering, computer-aided mathematical/technical education and distance learning. webComputing ...

Within organizations interactive systems are subject to pressures for change that are predominantly evolutionary in nature. The evolution of interactive systems is generally termed maintenance. Traditionally maintenance soaks up large portions of interactive systems budgets. Despite the many resources given over to maintenance there is little evidence that any consideration of usability issues ...

The Globus Toolkit has been widely used as middleware in Grid computing environments. Java CoG, Web Service and Portlet help to build Grid computing portals easily and productively. Many Grid Portals can provide a customizable interface allowing scientists and researchers to perform Grid operations such as remote submission of their own programs, staging input and ouput files, and querying reso...

This paper presents a set of phonetics teaching resources as modules in a more generic framework for web-based tutoring in the areas of phonetics, multimedia communication and spoken language research. Currently the toolkit consists of standalone interactive modules and lecture notes on a number of areas of phonetics, phonology and the lexicography of spoken language. The interactive presentati...

Distributed Interactive Workspaces (DIWs) are interactive environments, accessible through different devices, where end users create new content by exploring and aggregating data retrieved from distributed resources in the Web, tailor this content to their own personal needs, use it on different devices, and possibly share and co-create it with others. The need for collaborating with other peop...