2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)最新文献

{"title":"Cloud ecosystem for supporting inquiry learning with online labs: Creation, personalization, and exploitation","authors":"D. Gillet, M. Rodríguez-Triana, T. Jong, L. Bollen, D. Dikke","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984406","url":null,"abstract":"To effectively and efficiently implement blended science and technology education, teachers should be able to find educational resources that suit their need, fit with their curricula, and that can be easily exploited in their classroom. The European Union has supported the FP7 Go-Lab Integrated Project (2012–2016) and then the H2020 Next-Lab Innovation Action (2017–2019) to develop and disseminate inquiry learning spaces as open educational resources integrating online labs. This paper presents the technical ecosystem supporting these initiatives and combining loosely-coupled cloud services and platforms. The golabz.eu sharing platform is a repository offering online labs, scaffolding apps, and inquiry learning spaces created by teachers for teachers. The graasp.eu authoring platform is a social media enabling collaborative creation, agile personalization and secure exploitation at school, as well as exchange of best practices between teachers.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":" 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113950502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using marker based augmented reality and natural user interface for interactive remote experiments","authors":"Ananda Maiti, Andrew D. Maxwell, A. Kist","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984396","url":null,"abstract":"Remote Access Laboratories (RALs) use computer-based platforms to deliver educational goals for engineering and scientific laboratories. To pursue more effective user interfaces, RAL can now be integrated with Augmented and Virtual Reality features to enhance users' interactions and control features. A Natural User Interface (NUI) is one way to implement advanced input methods to capture data from users' natural movement. These methods aim to enable interactions with greater options and flexibility. This paper introduces a method to use augmented reality and a natural user interface to create interactive laboratory experiments. In this case, experiments have a virtual object which is download at the users' location. The users use a NUI device to interact with the virtual object. Interaction with this object is translated to operational commands which are performed on the real hardware in a remote location through the Internet. The paper presents both, an overall architecture to support such environments and an example RAL experiment using this method, in form of a Gearbox, to show the practical relevance of the approach within RAL. The new system permits hands-on-experience with virtual objects as a part of the RAL activity.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116403829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collaborative BIM environment as a support to conflict analysis in building design","authors":"A. Sampaio, E. Berdeja","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984348","url":null,"abstract":"The reference to Building Information Modelling (BIM) methodology includes the combination of a set of technologies related to the generation of the model and with the handling of a large amount of data. BIM supports the ability to promote a high level of interdisciplinary collaboration, desirable in the development and analysis of the project, contributing to achieve better productivity and quality in the design, construction and maintenance of buildings. BIM tools support the process of geometric modeling based on parametric objects and advanced levels of 3D realistic visualization abilities, but additionally incorporate other capabilities, namely, conflict detection features. Created a 3D/BIM model, with information considered relevant, generated and added throughout the development of the project, an analysis of conflict detections concerning the overlap and the proximity of elements (inconsistency between specialty projects) can be applied. Current BIM tools admit the overlap of three disciplines, architecture, structures and systems and support the definition of each component by direct analysis of conflicts identified by the BIM-based tool with the issue of inconsistency. The modeler adjusts the modelling process to every conflict situation. The analyses of conflict detections concerning inconsistency between specialty projects, is described in the present text.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125908886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Usefulness of remote experiments","authors":"Diana Urbano, F. Chouzal, M. T. Restivo","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984404","url":null,"abstract":"Online experimentation available through web collaborative platforms is a valuable tool for students in science and engineering courses looking for skills to be part of the driving force behind Industry 4.0. However, the user's virtual presence on this type of tools demands that their educational value be carefully assessed. This work presents a case study in which students of a Mechanical Engineering program evaluated Remote Experimentation resources. For this purpose, a questionnaire to measure latent variables such as Interest and Perceived Importance was used. The results were analyzed using multiple regression models and causal effects of some motivational factors on others are hypothesized and tested. One of the conclusions that can be drawn is that the interest students have for Remote Experimentation and the importance they attribute to it depend on the interest they have for the contents of the course and on the importance they think the course has on their engineering training. Moreover, ease of use and help provided also play a significant role in the interest and perceived importance of Remote Experimentation.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134364661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Communication model of open government data gamification based on Ukrainian websites","authors":"O. Blazhko, Tetiana Luhova, S. Melnik, Viktoriia Ruvinska","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984367","url":null,"abstract":"The article defines and characterizes the information-communicative model of gamification of the governmental open data web portals as well as defines the factors that contribute to the effective functioning of an open database in computer games of various types. The integration of Ukrainian governmental websites, containing open statistics data, into a public open data portal is described. The article provides the rules for selecting the data suitable for gamification and gives an example of the design of arcade-type games with open data sets.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"4 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129416870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Starting the study of electronic circuits with VISIR: Viewpoints of college students in a pilot test in Argentina","authors":"S. Marchisio, F. Lerro, Claudio Merendino, M. Plano, S. Concari, G. S. D. Arregui, J. García-Zubía, U. Hernández-Jayo, G. Alves, I. Gustavsson","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984385","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims at introducing the first intensive use of a remote lab named as VISIR by lecturers and students from Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. The research was carried under the VISIR + project. It is a pilot test in which 17 students from the third year of an Electronic Engineering degree took part. The pilot test was developed in order to bring forward possible difficulties, assess successes and failures and eventually suggest other possible ways of curricular incorporation of VISIR in the teaching of the Physics of Electronic Devices subject. VISIR was used as a complement to hands-on lab, after the last experimental design activity of basic circuits with bipolar transistor. The students carried out an individual lab work. Then, they were asked to answer an opinion poll made up of 20 items, 1–4 Likert scale. Descriptive statistical analysis and summary of cases were carried out in order to conclude about four dimensions of analysis linked to the students' viewpoint. They are: perceived learnings, VISIR acceptance, perceived teachers' guidance and time and technical restrictions.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134407200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The remote lab “Nexys 2 FPGA platform” aimed for learning design of digital circuits","authors":"Vanja Luković, R. Krneta, Dorde Damnjanovic, A. Peulić","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984350","url":null,"abstract":"The application of remote lab “Nexys 2 FPGA platform” for learning digital circuits design is described in this paper. The experiment requires installation of Xilinx ISE Design Suite software on students' PCs for designing digital circuits and generating .bit file. There are three ways of designing digital circuits in Xilinx ISE Design Suite software: by programming in VHDL language, by programming in Verilog language or by using schematic diagrams. Working environment of the remote lab consists of Digilent Nexys 2 FPGA platform that is connected with PC. Students connect with the remote lab PC through CEyeClon viewer which also needs to be installed on their PCs together with .Net Framework 4.5. Generated .bit file is loaded through Digilent Adept2 software that is installed on the remote lab PC and used for the FPGA programming. The usage of this experiment enable engineering students to achieve practical experiences and skills for designing and simulating digital circuits using FPGA and to better understand and learn theory of designing digital circuits.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134377261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mixed reality voice training for lecturers","authors":"Laura Lenz, Daniël Janssen, V. Stehling","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984370","url":null,"abstract":"An often underestimated challenge for lecturers is a considerate use of their voice in teaching auditoriums. Even experienced lecturers are challenged by speaking in front of large classes or in new surroundings for the first time. Universities therefore often offer special voice trainings in which lecturers can be trained to use their voice correctly by a professional voice coach. Those trainings, however, often do not offer a realistic simulation of the lecturers' everyday teaching life. The project “ELLI” (Excellent Teaching and Learning in Engineering Sciences), funded by the federal ministry of education and research in Germany, aims at solving exactly this problem: It will give teachers the opportunity to practice their vocal capabilities in a special Mixed Reality Voice Lab. Within this lab, lecturers are able to participate in immersive voice trainings. Those trainings are adaptable to the lecturers' specific needs and environments and can therefore differ in terms of class size, stereoscopic vision and sonic interaction. The trainings are guided by professional vocal coaches. Currently, a first prototype of the Voice Lab that offers two different settings has been developed. The scenarios will be continuously improved based on user feedback and serve as a basis for the development of a wide range of adjustable settings. In order to generate the specific settings, that match the individual needs of the lecturers, real-life auditoriums have been acoustically measured by using specific professional microphones. The visual representation has been realized by using 360° cameras. In the long run, the immersive Mixed Reality Voice Lab will be deployable to other universities and contexts where it will offer lecturers the opportunity to practice their voice in environments that represent a realistic simulation of their actual teaching scenarios in terms of sound and vision. Additionally, lecturers will also be able to experience their own teaching in replay out of a students' perspective. This allows for a deeper self-reflection of their own vocal performance and serves to foster the learning process.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121437001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adding augmented reality to laboratory experimentation","authors":"José Rodrigues, T. Andrade, Paulo Abreu, M. T. Restivo","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984401","url":null,"abstract":"This work proposes the use of augmented reality (AR) in laboratory experiments as a way to enrich the user experience in conducting the required procedures as well as reinforcing students' skills in the use of emerging technologies. Three examples of implementing an AR application, running on an Android smartphone, dealing with one haptic device and with two remote operated laboratory experiments are described. The first AR application, allows direct access to a video showing how the haptic device is assembled. The second AR application, ARNsensor, uses a marker to access in real time the data provided by a wireless sensor network used to monitor the laboratory indoor environment. The third application can, not only to access the data from an online experiment, but also to interact with the experiment. In this case, as the experiment involves controlling the level of a water tank, the user can control the water pump through a virtual command provided by the AR application. The three AR applications developed for an android smartphone are fully functional and are available for trial.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122258533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An internet of laboratory things","authors":"T. Drysdale, N. Braithwaite","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984362","url":null,"abstract":"By creating “an Internet of Laboratory Things” we have built a blend of real and virtual laboratory spaces that enables students to gain practical skills necessary for their professional science and engineering careers. All our students are distance learners. This provides them by default with the proving ground needed to develop their skills in remotely operating equipment, and collaborating with peers despite not being co-located. Our laboratories accommodate state of the art research grade equipment, as well as large-class sets of off-the-shelf work stations and bespoke teaching apparatus. Distance to the student is no object and the facilities are open all hours. This approach is essential for STEM qualifications requiring development of practical skills, with higher efficiency and greater accessibility than achievable in a solely residential programme.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124895871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}