Nowadays information systems play a vital role for organizations and individuals, which is why their protection is becoming increasingly important. Often, solutions are developed for very similar problems over and over again. An exchange of knowledge ...

Articulated character animation is typically performed by manually creating and rigging a skeleton into an unfolded 3D object. However, such tasks are not trivial, as they require a substantial amount of training and practices. Although automatic ...

Dialogue can facilitate active engagement and critical thinking in learning in many situations, such as when a learner's ideas are challenged with conflicting viewpoints in a debate. Nowadays group communications in online learning processes are being ...

This paper describes the iterative design of a web-based collaborative workspace used in educational practice, called WebReports. The system's unique feature is that it allows participants to discuss mathematical and scientific concepts using programmed ...

Technology can play an important role in enabling people to interact with each other. The Web is one such technology with the affordances for sharing information and for connecting people to people. In this paper, we describe the design of two social ...

Multimedia systems design generally requires a collaborative effort from a group of designers with a variety of backgrounds and tasks, such as content experts, instructional designers, media specialists, users, and so forth. However, currently available ...