232 research outputs found
Game-Based Elements to Upgrade Bots to Non-Player Characters in Support of Educators
No full textResearch in virtual worlds has sought to distance itself from the perception that it is about games and appears to have achieved this distinction. However, in the process, valuable contributions and concepts from game-based research have been incorporated into virtual world research. We seek to outline how various game-based elements can improve the role of bots in a way to increase their utility so they become non-player characters (NPC), increasing the utility of virtual worlds even further in education. Bots are a valuable addition within virtual worlds and distinguish these simulations from other simulated environments. However, their use is still limited, allowing them only a small role to play within the educational use of virtual worlds. We link this to the technology and lack of game-based elements within virtual worlds in education and highlight how bots may be better incorporated in the future. We discuss the use of bots and examine some of their key characteristics and how they have been employed. Next, we examine the literature on game-based design and attempt to overlay these concepts on a virtual world framework. This allows us to extrapolate the changing role of bots and the requirement of more non-player characters in virtual worlds. We propose a framework for the incorporation of advanced NPC in virtual worlds in a way that can support educational processes. Our review of the role of bots and NPC and the advances in technology indicate that this is an important step forward. We present a five-stage model of different phases of bots and NPC development, allowing instructional designers to appropriately engineer bots and NPC to support their needs. Low-level bots may be appropriate for certain uses, allowing resources to be invested; the different categorisation allows sensible allocation of resources to achieve desired system-wide outcomes
Transforming Ideas to Innovations: A Methodology for 3D Systems Development
No full textWe live in exciting and challenging times—the rapid pace of technological development is wind in the sails of social, commercial, and political change. When presented with changing circumstances, adaptation is important for individuals and organisations alike. For those engaging in the modern knowledge/networked economy, research, development, and commercialisation are important tools in facilitating innovation. Digital Ecosystems are an emergent player in the networked economy. Digital Ecosystems’ integration of technological empowerment and social networking gives them great potential for innovation. In particular, 3D Digital Ecosystems (3DDEs) are a rich forum for information systems research, development, and commercialisation because they provide a powerful context for innovation and collaboration through promoting user-generated content. For example, Second Life empowers users with a menu-based object-builder and a programming language. The immersive 3D environment provides in-built text, voice, and body-language communication tools that enrich collaboration. Furthermore, the community of users apply themselves to all realms of human endeavour, from recreational socialisation to systems development and entrepreneurial ventures.This chapter describes the benefits and limitations of using 3DDEs for research, development, and commercialisation. Based on our lessons learned from various university research projects (including discussion of a research commercialisation system development project of an Automated Essay Grading system called MarkIT), we introduce a new 3DDE system development methodology entitled MEADS—Methodology for Avatar-based Development of Systems. MEADS incorporates concepts and experience from different fields and establishes a guideline for 3DDE projects and covers the whole life cycle. In concluding This chapter, we make suggestions for future innovations in research, development, and commercialisation of Information Systems incorporating 3DDEs
Culturally-based adaptive learning and concept analytics to guide educational Website content integration
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Project knowledge management while simply playing! Gaming mechanics in project knowledge management systems
No full textProject knowledge management underlies many issues: lacking time and high ef-fort for documenting project insights, less motivation of project team members to share their knowledge, or the “not-invented-here-syndrome” when employees should reuse project-related knowledge. In consequence, mistakes will be repeated or already known solutions will be reinvented. Since many years, researchers fo-cus their studies in knowledge management in order to solve such issues. Some re-searchers try to understand reasons for insufficient knowledge management or determine factors influencing knowledge creation, documentation, transfer and reuse. Others design information systems aiming to support individuals, teams or organizations to manage what they know. However, as far as we know, no re-searcher considers gamification as possible mechanism to engage and motivate project teams to manage their project-related insights. Although our research orig-inally did not consider gamification we intuitively implemented some typical gamification elements in order to engage individuals to participate in project knowledge management
"Na mesma margem”: a representação das sexualidades múltiplas em Caio Fernando Abreu e Joca Reiners Terron
No full textA presente tese objetiva analisar as obras de Caio Fernando Abreu e Joca Reiners Terron em que diversas sexualidades são representadas. Partindo dessa premissa, foram selecionados os contos de Caio Fernando Abreu intitulados “Meio silêncio”, “Madrugada”, “Aqueles dois”, “Terça-feira gorda”, “Sargento Garcia”, “Dama da noite”, “Uma praiazinha de areia bem clara, ali, na beira da sanga”, “Uma história confusa”, “Angie” e “As quatro irmãs (uma antropologia fake)”. Essa seleção se justifica pela possibilidade de se investigar a forma como personagens que não se enquadram na heteronormatividade foram construídas em contos do escritor publicados entre as décadas de 1970 e 1990. De Joca Reiners Terron, foi escolhida uma obra contemporânea para compor a pesquisa, a saber, o romance Do fundo do poço se vê a lua, publicado em 2010, a partir do qual se pretende destacar a permanência do viés da intolerância no âmbito literário. Neste estudo, a temática mencionada é explorada por intermédio da aplicação da teoria queer a uma comparação entre as produções de Caio Fernando Abreu e Joca Reiners Terron, enfatizando-se a forma como existências consideradas desviantes são apresentadas através do emprego de recursos literários nos textos em questão. Os trabalhos de Michel Foucault (2018), Judith Butler (2016), Guacira Lopes Louro (2018a), Berenice Bento (2006), dentre outros, embasam a discussão das sexualidades múltiplas e do modo como a sociedade as percebe. Uma vez retomada a história da literatura que aborda tais questões, também as estruturas de poder que corroboram a manutenção de um centro, constituído por homens cisgêneros, brancos, heterossexuais e de classe social mais elevada, são examinadas. Ademais, busca-se ainda avaliar, por meio de uma revisão de temáticas e elementos teóricos nos dois autores da literatura brasileira citados, uma configuração do panorama literário que apresenta obras que retratam identidades plurais, contribuindo para as pesquisas desenvolvidas no Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da Literatura da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande.This doctoral dissertation aims to analyze the works of Caio Fernando Abreu and Joca Reiners Terron in which several sexualities are represented. Based on said assumption, Caio Fernando Abreu's short stories “Meio silêncio”, “Madrugada”, “Aqueles dois”, “Terça-feira gorda”, “Sargento Garcia”, “Dama da noite”, “Uma praiazinha de areia bem clara, ali, na beira da sanga”, “Uma história confusa”, “Angie” and “As quatro irmãs (uma antropologia fake)” were selected for the present study. That choice is justified by the possibility of investigating the manner in which characters that do not fit heteronormativity were developed in texts published by the author from the 1970s to the 1990s. A contemporary work by Joca Reiners Terron was also selected for this research, namely, the novel “Do fundo do poço se vê a lua”, published in 2010. This text serves as a basis for this study to highlight the permanence of the bias of intolerance in the literary field. In this dissertation, the aforementioned theme is investigated through the perspective of Queer Theory applied to a comparison between Caio Fernando Abreu’s and Joca Reiners Terron’s output, emphasizing the way in which lives that are considered deviant are presented via the use of literary devices in the texts that were read. The works of Michel Foucault (2018), Judith Butler (2016), Guacira Lopes Louro (2018a), Berenice Bento (2006), among others, lay the foundations for the discussion of multiple sexualities and how they are perceived by society. Once the history of the literature that addresses said issues is resumed, the power structures that corroborate the maintenance of a center consisting of cisgender, white, heterosexual men who belong to higher social classes are examined as well. In addition, this work also aims to survey – through a review of themes and theoretical elements in the two above-mentioned Brazilian authors’ output – a configuration of the literary panorama including portrayals of plural identities, contributing to the research conducted at the Federal University of Rio Grande's Graduate Program in History of Literature.Esta tesis tiene el objetivo de analizar las obras de Caio Fernando Abreu y Joca
Reiners Terron, en las que hay una diversidad de identidades sexuales
representadas. Basándose en esa premisa, se seleccionaron diez cuentos de Caio
Fernando Abreu intitulados: Meio silêncio, Madrugada, Aqueles dois, Terça-feira
gorda, Sargento Garcia, Dama da noite, Uma praiazinha de areia bem clara, ali, na
beira da sanga, Uma história confusa, Angie y As quatro irmãs (uma antropologia
fake). Esa selección se justifica por la posibilidad de estudiar la construcción de
personajes que no contemplan la heteronormatividad en las obras del escritor, y que
se presentan en sus cuentos publicados entre las décadas de 1970 y 1990. De Joca
Reiners Terron se eligió una obra contemporánea para componer la investigación, la
novela Do fundo do poço se vê a lua, publicada en 2010, a partir de la cual se desea
enfatizar la manutención del sesgo de la intolerancia. En este estudio, el tema
mencionado se explora a través de la teoría Queer y de una comparación entre las
producciones de Caio Fernando Abreu y Joca Reiners Terron, destacando cómo se
presentan las existencias consideradas desviantes por medio de los recursos
literarios de los textos en cuestión. Los estudios de Michel Foucault (2018), Judith
Butler (2016), Guacira Lopes Louro (2018a), Berenice Bento (2006), entre otros,
sirven como aportes teóricos para el análisis de las sexualidades múltiples y la forma
como la sociedad las percibe. A partir de un recorrido por la historia de la literatura
que aborda esos temas, también se investigan las estructuras de poder que
contribuyen al mantenimiento de un centro, compuesto por hombres cisgéneros,
blancos, heterosexuales y de clase social superior. Además, se busca evaluar, por
medio de una revisión de temáticas y elementos teóricos de los dos autores de la
literatura brasileña citados, una configuración del panorama literario que presenta
obras que retratan personajes múltiples, y así contribuir para las investigaciones
desarrolladas en el Programa de Posgrado en Historia de la Literatura de la
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
“Curadoria”, autoria e fraternidades transcontinentais: a produção de Joca Reiners Terron
No full textTaking into consideration the novel Noite dentro da noite (2017), by Joca Reiners Terron, and its author’s role as the literary organizer of the series Otra Língua – which presents to the Brazilian reader the work of writers from different Latin American countries –, this research intends to focus on the transcontinental fraternity that Terron’s work, as an author and a “curator”, outlines. This is the sense under which Noite dentro da noite, until now the author’s most ambitious novel, is “read”: as if it were the Brazilian portion of an Ibero-American continent literarily forged by the curated collection, a strategy which allows for the reflection on spaces and affections.A partir do romance Noite dentro da noite (2017), de Joca Reiners Terron, e da sua atuação como organizador literário da série Otra Língua – que apresenta ao leitor brasileiro a produção de escritores dos diferentes países hispano-americanos -, este trabalho pretende deter-se sobre a fraternidade transcontinental que o trabalho de Terron, como autor e como “curador”, delineia. É nesse sentido que Noite dentro da noite, até o momento, o romance mais ambicioso do escritor, é “lido”: como se fosse a porção brasileira de um continente íbero-americano literariamente forjado pela coleção, estratégia que permite refletir sobre espaços e sobre afetos
The influence of Thomas Pynchon and bovarism on the autofictionality of Noite dentro da noite, by Joca Reiners Terron
No full textO romance brasileiro contemporâneo Noite dentro da noite: uma autobiografia, de Joca Reiners Terron, é lido segundo o desvio que estabelece em relação à voga autoficcional do realismo literário corrente no país. Sua fuga, através de entrecho pleno de fantasias inverossímeis, é caracterizada como bovarista, posto que o herói é leitor voraz de relatos de guerra e diários de viagem. No entanto desvendaremos que o bovarismo é sobretudo autoral, com uma influência literária que age tanto no conteúdo quanto na forma do romance analisado: o autor norte-americano Thomas Pynchon, junto a seu clássico dos anos 1970 O arco-íris da gravidade.The contemporary Brazilian novel Noite dentro da noite: uma autobiografia, by Joca Reiners Terron, is analyzed in light of its departure from the current autofictional trend of literary realism in the country. Its escape, through a plot filled with implausible fantasies, is characterized as bovaristic, since the protagonist is a voracious reader of war stories and travel diaries. However, we come to understand that this bovarism is, above all, authorial – stemming from a literary influence that shapes both the content and the form of the novel: the American author Thomas Pynchon and his 1970s classic, Gravity\u27s Rainbow
Investigando patrones de viaje de turistas chinos en Western Australia : generación de rutas
No full textLos visitantes chinos juegan un papel crucial en la industria turística de WA, pero hay un número limitado de publicaciones sobre este tema específico. El sector turístico de Australia Occidental tiene diferencias considerables con el sector de los estados del este (centro de Sydney-Melbourne-Brisbane). Como Australia Occidental ofrece ciertos destinos turísticos específicos, es necesario contrastar lo que se requiere y lo que se puede ofrecer a través de las cadenas de valor locales. Se utilizarán herramientas de la cadena de suministro como el análisis de datos, la generación de rutas prototipo y el análisis de la cadena de valor para reunir más conocimiento sobre los turistas chinos de vacaciones, evaluar sus necesidades cuando viajan por Australia Occidental y proponer soluciones para la cadena de suministro.Chinese visitors play a crucial role in WA’s tourism industry, but there are a limited
number of publications on this specific topic. Western Australia’s tourism sector has
considerable differences to the eastern states’ (Sydney-Melbourne-Brisbane hub)
sector. As Western Australia offers certain specific tourist destinations, it is necessary
to contrast what is required and what can be offered through the local value chains.
Supply chain tools such as data analytics, prototype routes generation and value chain
analysis will be used to gather more knowledge about the Chinese holiday tourists,
evaluate their needs when traveling around Western Australia and propose supply
chain solutions.Perú. Programa Nacional de Becas y Crédito Educativo (Pronabec) : Beca Presidente de la RepúblicaTrabajo de investigació
Supporting Diverse Needs of Learning Groups: Towards Highly Flexible Learning Settings in Collaborative 3D Virtual Environments
No full textThree-dimensional virtual worlds have become popular over the last few years for various application scenarios such as communication and collaboration as well as for learning and training activities. A number of learning environments for various learning and training activities have also been developed. Almost all of these environments have been designed for a specific purpose and the development work in this area is resource intensive and time consuming. There is a strong demand for flexible and easy-to-adjust learning environments according to the specific needs of learning groups in a particular context. The situation has motivated us to initiate research towards a flexible system which supports adaptation and configuration of virtual collaborative learning environment according to the learning communities’ specific needs
Modeling and optimization of production and distribution of drinking water at VMW
No full textWe develop and discuss an operational planning model aiming at minimizing production and distribution costs in large drinking water networks containing buffers with free inflow. Modeling drinking water networks is very challenging due of the presence of complex hydraulic constraints, such as friction losses and pump curves. Non-linear, non-convex constraints result from the relationships between pressure and flow in power terms. Also, binary variables are needed to model the possibility of free inflow or re-injection of water at reservoirs. The resulting model is thus a non-convex Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Program (MINLP). A discrete-time setting is proposed to solve the problem over a finite horizon made of several intervals. A commercial solver, BONMIN, suited for convex MINLP models is used to heuristically solve the problem. We are able to find a good solution for a small part of an existing network operated by the Vlaamse Maatschappij voor Watervoorziening (VMW), a major drinking water company in Flanders
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