While the university has traditionally been our primary centre for the management of knowledge, a variety of factors are changing the processes associated with this function. This paper discusses the university’s ...

This paper presents a study of the effect of the level of perceptual realism of the game world’s dimensionality, graphics, and physics on learning outcomes and motivation. An evaluation of two versions of an educational ...

Although Music is considered the field of emotions and moods, every composition has a structure: beginning, development, climax and conclusion. In classical music, there are many genres, but each piece always tells a ...

This document describes results of an exploration of ways to use formal methods and tech- niques to assist with the qualification of Time-Space Partitioning (TSP) kernels. It is being written as part of ESTEC Contract ...

Providing enough information to allow the VR player to self-identify is an important factor in their immersion into a virtual world. The sensory information being provided to the player’s eyes and ears through the headset ...

We propose an extension to the event-based programming model for sensor-driven ubiquitous computing applications. The extension consists of three abstractions: Multi-Event Handlers, Event Streams and Execution Policies. ...

The design and adoption of socio-culturally appropriate technologies are critical to addressing the environmental sustainability crisis in the Global South. However, implementing technology-based sustainability initiatives ...

A binary classification of laughter according to a functional dimension of venting mirth vs. moving discourse along is considered in relation to a three-way social classification of any instance of laughter as solo, ...