This paper presents the process of creation of virtual agents used in a virtual reality performance. The performance aimed to investigate how drama and performance could inform the creation of virtual agents and also how virtual reality could raise questions for drama and performance. The virtual agents were based on the performance of 2 actors. This paper describes the process of preparing the...

Virtual reality systems have been developed primarily for the entertainment sector. However, they are being increasingly considered as high potential tools use in industry and education. In this context, schools now facing a challenge to introduce virtual-reality-supported teaching into their processes. With mind, authors, paper, focus on possibility using virtual excursions part of vocational ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an example of how the synergy of different competences in students’ teams, out-of-the-box thinking style and various motivation factors in a culturally diverse learning environment is the foundation for knowledge construction, driven by the idea generation process and co-creation – the so-called Medici effect, one of the benchmarks for excellenc...

The focus of this paper is on user participation in product design process. Ours is a human-centred approach in which users’ expertise is acknowledged and which addresses the development of future products, rather than the current situation in users’ work. This type of user participation applied to co-creation is possible when the users’ prospective work is made visible. This paper presents a t...

In conditions of isolation, quarantines, and lockdowns under the coronavirus pandemic, technology became main means pupil/student-teacher connection communication, as well an essential tool for schools to offer continuous education possibilities. A very specific problem, which secondary vocational were facing, was practical training excursions, are important part apprentices` learning experienc...

This report from the field provides reflection on author’s experience of co-authoring a peer-reviewed manuscript with community partners for publication in an academic journal. The reflects existential, logistical, and process-related challenges applying community-based research delivering its promise knowledge co-creation while grappling inequities imbedded realities non-academic life. Reflect...

Creating a complex virtual environment with human inhabitants that behave as we would expect real humans to behave is a difficult and time consuming task. Time must be spent to construct the environment, to create human figures, to create animations for the agents’ actions, and to create controls for the agents’ behaviors, such as scripts, plans, and decision-makers. Often work done for one vir...