Inanimate Alice: The Story of the Series and its Impact in Portugal

A team from the University of Coimbra is partnering with the producers of Inanimate Alice to present a distinctive vision of interactive storytelling in education. In this article, we will discuss the origins of the series, the vision of the creators and how technological developments have added to the user experience. Uniquely, this transmedia narrative demonstrates the progressive complexity of life in the digital age with Perpetual Nomads, the latest adventure, providing a narrative experience in Virtual Reality. The goal of the Portuguese translation is to introduce the reading of Inanimate Alice in elementary and secondary schools. It will be the first digital-born text to be read in Portuguese schools so, concurrently, we have been translating the pedagogical guidelines. Consequently, we intend presenting both the results of our work and the main challenges faced during preparation of the translations, especially focusing on intercultural analysis.

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Teaching an Undergraduate Statistics Class in Digital Era

Proceeding International Conference on Science and Engineering ◽

10.14421/icse.v3.530 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 371-373

Author(s):

Siti Rohayati ◽

Asrifatun Agustini ◽

Ahmad Anis Abdullah

Keyword(s):

Statistical Learning ◽

Digital Age ◽

Digital Era ◽

Technological Developments ◽

The University ◽

Undergraduate Statistics ◽

Undergraduate Class

Nowadays technological developments are increasingly creative and tend to move towards digital. Technological developments have a major impact on the process of statistical learning at the University. In addition, many students lack understanding of statistical concepts and do not like statistical learning. In this paper, it is given a way of involving technology in the undergraduate class statistics teaching and what statistical concepts are needed in this digital age. Thus, it is hoped that the teaching of the undergraduate statistics class becomes something interesting and fun.

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Ciência da Informação e Humanidades Digitais

10.31219/osf.io/mz794 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

FRANCISCO CARLOS PALETTA

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Information Literacy ◽

Digital Library ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Digital Humanities ◽

Information Science ◽

Digital Age ◽

Web Of Data ◽

The University ◽

The Web

This work aims to presents partial results on the research project conducted at the Observatory of the Labor Market in Information and Documentation, School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo on Information Science and Digital Humanities. Discusses Digital Humanities and informational literacy. Highlights the evolution of the Web, the digital library and its connections with Digital Humanities. Reflects on the challenges of the Digital Humanities transdisciplinarity and its connections with the Information Science. This is an exploratory study, mainly due to the current and emergence of the theme and the incipient bibliography existing both in Brazil and abroad.Keywords: Digital Humanities; Information Science; Transcisciplinrity; Information Literacy; Web of Data; Digital Age.

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Virtual reality as an empirical research tool — Exploring user experience in a real building and a corresponding virtual model

Computers Environment and Urban Systems ◽

10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2015.09.006 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 363-375 ◽

Cited By ~ 104

Author(s):

S.F. Kuliga ◽

T. Thrash ◽

R.C. Dalton ◽

C. Hölscher

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Empirical Research ◽

User Experience ◽

Research Tool ◽

Virtual Model ◽

Real Building

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Victoria Theatre virtual reality: A digital heritage case study and user experience design

Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage ◽

10.1016/j.daach.2021.e00176 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

pp. e00176

Author(s):

Gillian Arrighi ◽

Zi Siang See ◽

Donovan Jones

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

User Experience ◽

Experience Design ◽

User Experience Design ◽

Digital Heritage

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Effects of Virtual Reality Properties on User Experience of Individuals with Autism

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing ◽

10.1145/3267340 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 1-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Lal "Lila" Bozgeyikli ◽

Evren Bozgeyikli ◽

Srinivas Katkoori ◽

Andrew Raij ◽

Redwan Alqasemi

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

User Experience

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How Can I Grab That?

i-com ◽

10.1515/icom-2020-0011 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 67-85

Author(s):

Matthias Weise ◽

Raphael Zender ◽

Ulrike Lucke

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

User Experience ◽

Dimensional Space ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Multiple Dimensions ◽

Application Developers ◽

Three Dimensional Space

AbstractThe selection and manipulation of objects in Virtual Reality face application developers with a substantial challenge as they need to ensure a seamless interaction in three-dimensional space. Assessing the advantages and disadvantages of selection and manipulation techniques in specific scenarios and regarding usability and user experience is a mandatory task to find suitable forms of interaction. In this article, we take a look at the most common issues arising in the interaction with objects in VR. We present a taxonomy allowing the classification of techniques regarding multiple dimensions. The issues are then associated with these dimensions. Furthermore, we analyze the results of a study comparing multiple selection techniques and present a tool allowing developers of VR applications to search for appropriate selection and manipulation techniques and to get scenario dependent suggestions based on the data of the executed study.

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RADIOCARBON IN MEXICO: FROM PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS TO AMS

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/rdc.2021.58 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Corina Solís ◽

Efraín Chávez ◽

Arcadio Huerta ◽

María Esther Ortiz ◽

Alberto Alcántara ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mass Spectrometry ◽

Sample Preparation ◽

High Voltage ◽

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry ◽

Science And Technology ◽

National Council ◽

University Of Arizona ◽

Technological Developments ◽

High Voltage Engineering ◽

The University

ABSTRACT Augusto Moreno is credited with establishing the first radiocarbon (14C) laboratory in Mexico in the 1950s, however, 14C measurement with the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) technique was not achieved in our country until 2003. Douglas Donahue from the University of Arizona, a pioneer in using AMS for 14C dating, participated in that experiment; then, the idea of establishing a 14C AMS laboratory evolved into a feasible project. This was finally reached in 2013, thanks to the technological developments in AMS and sample preparation with automated equipment, and the backing and support of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the National Council for Science and Technology. The Mexican AMS Laboratory, LEMA, with a compact 1 MV system from High Voltage Engineering Europa, and its sample preparation laboratories with IonPlus automated graphitization equipment, is now a reality.

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Children’s interactive storytelling in Virtual Reality

Multimodality & Society ◽

10.1177/2634979521992965 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 48-67

Author(s):

Dylan Yamada-Rice

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Digital Media ◽

Virtual Worlds ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Design Elements ◽

Interactive Storytelling ◽

Head Mounted Display ◽

Visual Style ◽

Multimodal Methods ◽

Core Points

This article reports on one stage of a project that considered twenty 8–12-years-olds use of Virtual Reality (VR) for entertainment. The entire project considered this in relation to interaction and engagement, health and safety and how VR play fitted into children’s everyday home lives. The specific focus of this article is solely on children’s interaction and engagement with a range of VR content on both a low-end and high-end head mounted display (HMD). The data were analysed using novel multimodal methods that included stop-motion animation and graphic narratives to develop multimodal means for analysis within the context of VR. The data highlighted core design elements in VR content that promoted or inhibited children’s storytelling in virtual worlds. These are visual style, movement and sound which are described in relation to three core points of the user’s journey through the virtual story; (1) entering the virtual environment, (2) being in the virtual story world, and (3) affecting the story through interactive objects. The findings offer research-based design implications for the improvement of virtual content for children, specifically in relation to creating content that promotes creativity and storytelling, thereby extending the benefits that have previously been highlighted in the field of interactive storytelling with other digital media.

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