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Ati the Etruscan is a 3D character developed in Blender at VisitLab Cineca. It can be considered as a versatile mascot of the Etruscan civilization, part of the recent efforts sustained in Italy by different cultural institutions to promote knowledge ...

This article discusses the design and implementation of a holistic game development curriculum. We focus on a technical degree centred around game engineering/technologies with transferable skills, problem solving, mathematics, software engineering, ...

Collaborations and partnerships between academia and government agencies are common, especially when it comes to research and development in the fields of science, engineering and technology. However, collaboration between a government agency and an art ...

Educational spaces within a university campus have traditionally been seen as a lecture theatre with an area set aside for tutorials. In the case of a computer-based teaching programme, this has been a computer lab, with projector, screen and lecturer ...

We present an approach for achieving scalable authoring of digital learning activities, without sacrificing delivery eloquence. A computer animation character serves as an instructor avatar that not only speaks but also makes deictic, iconic and ...

In order to recognize the human daily activity more easily and accurately, an activity recognition method based on functional features is proposed in this article. Firstly, we transform the data series which collected by the wearable motion capture ...

A MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) study shortens the distance between students and educators, and surpasses time and space, but it also creates barriers of true emotion interaction in the study process. This research demonstrated the feasibility of ...

In the context of today's ubiquitous digital revolution, the mundane product, ranging from toys to watches to entire architectures, is slowly ceasing to exist. They are being replaced by networked and environmentally-reactive objects that, though trying ...

Design thinking is a catalyst that uncovers innovations. From realistic products, services, and business models, it seeks a creative approach to defining challenges and problem solving. This paper follows the documentation process behind an ...