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    Avatar Expression Agent in Virtual Architecture

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    Digital strategies to a local cultural tourism development: Project e-Carnide

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    Digital humanities and smart economy strategies are being seen as an important link between tourism and cultural heritage, as they may contribute to differentiate the audiences and to provide different approaches. Carnide is a peripheral neighbourhood of Lisbon with an elderly population, visible traces of rurality, and strong cultural and religious traditions. The academic project e-Carnide concerns its tangible and intangible cultural heritage and the data dissemination through a website and a mobile app, with textual and visual information. The project aims to analyse the impact of technological solutions on cultural tourism development in a sub-region, involving interdisciplinary research in heritage, history of art, ethnography, design communication and software engineering and the collaboration between the university and local residents in a dynamic and innovative way. Framed by a theoretical approach about the role of smart economy for the cultural tourism development in peripheral areas, this paper focuses on a case study, dealing with documents, interviews and observations, in order to understand how the e-Carnide project evolves. The study comprises an analysis about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis) of the project in view to realize its social and cultural implications and to appreciate how it can be applied in other similar and enlarged projects. Results of the research indicates that the new technological strategies can promote the involvement of the population in the knowledge of its own heritage as a factor of cultural and creative tourism development centred on an authentic and immersive experience of the places

    Using system dynamics for collaborative design: a case study

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    <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In order to facilitate the collaborative design, system dynamics (SD) with a group modelling approach was used in the early stages of planning a new stroke unit. During six workshops a SD model was created in a multiprofessional group.</p> <p>Aim</p> <p>To explore to which extent and how the use of system dynamics contributed to the collaborative design process.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>A case study was conducted using several data sources.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>SD supported a collaborative design, by facilitating an explicit description of stroke care process, a dialogue and a joint understanding. The construction of the model obliged the group to conceptualise the stroke care and experimentation with the model gave the opportunity to reflect on care.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>SD facilitated the collaborative design process and should be integrated in the early stages of the design process as a quality improvement tool.</p

    Grundständige Ausbildung von schulischen Heilpädagoginnen und Heilpädagogen (SHP)

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    Die grundständige Ausbildung von Schulischen Heilpädagog(inn)en ist in Deutschland verbreitet, in der schweizerischen Bildungslandschaft jedoch ein Novum. Im ersten Abschnitt wird eine Begründung für deren Einführung auch in der Schweiz gegeben, bevor in einem weiteren Teil grobe Leitlinien für ein Ausbildungskonzept skizziert werden. Als ein Element dieses Ausbildungskonzeptes wird anschliessend ein Hilfsmittel zur Wahrnehmung von mehr Eigenverantwortung in der Planung und Durchführung persönlich bedeutsamer Lernprozesse vorgestellt

    Low Cost Geometric Modelling System for CAM

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