Ignacio Evangelista, Juan A. Farina, M. I. Pozzo, Elsa Dobboletta, G. Alves, J. García-Zubía, U. Hernández-Jayo, S. Marchisio, S. Concari, I. Gustavsson
{"title":"Science education at high school: A VISIR remote lab implementation","authors":"Ignacio Evangelista, Juan A. Farina, M. I. Pozzo, Elsa Dobboletta, G. Alves, J. García-Zubía, U. Hernández-Jayo, S. Marchisio, S. Concari, I. Gustavsson","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984378","url":null,"abstract":"Experimentation is crucial in science teaching at any education level. Students' motivation and collaborative work are also essential in order to achieve positive learning outcomes. This article portrays the implementation of remote experimentation using VISIR in a Physics subject at high-school level. Qualitative and quantitative data were analyzed for this particular case study in order to shed light on the influence of VISIR on students' motivation. Results showed that VISIR remote lab is a powerful tool to arouse interest in electronic circuit topics.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"14 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":"124002655","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":"Puzzle time — VR runner","authors":"Nuno Gouveia, Bruno Patrão, P. Menezes","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984413","url":null,"abstract":"In this demonstration we present a 3-D Virtual Reality Runner Game that serves as a tool for improving visuomotor coordination of young people, in particular children suffering from dyspraxia. To further improve the immersion of the user, the proposed demo was implemented using an instrumented object (a cube). The object's tracking was done through a hybrid system, that fuses inertial sensing with a visionbased marker detector, providing a smoother and bias corrected estimation of the object's pose.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"23 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":"121303181","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}
Mario Alessandro Bochicchio, A. Longo, L. Vaira, M. Zappatore, Lorenzo Cazzella
{"title":"Browser-enabled distributed crowdsensing","authors":"Mario Alessandro Bochicchio, A. Longo, L. Vaira, M. Zappatore, Lorenzo Cazzella","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984394","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile Crowdsensing is often used for involving large number of persons in distributed sensing experiments. In some cases, (e.g., online games, online sensing of sensitive data, etc.) privacy and security issues arise. Peer-to-peer networks can be effectively used to guarantee anonymity and solve the above mentioned issues. In this scenario, we describe an experiment of browser-based peer-to-peer approach for mobile crowdsensing for the specific field of noise pollution monitoring.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"6 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":"125601872","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":"Evaluation of on-line simulation tools to teach Chemical Processes","authors":"M. Rasteiro, Diana Urbano","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984397","url":null,"abstract":"Engineering educators have been driven to develop practical approaches to supplement scientific background to further develop the capacity for autonomous and critical thinking in students, which has to lead to new teaching methodologies. In 2009, the University of Coimbra has made available on-line a virtual platform with a wide scope, directed towards the learning of Chemical Processes. The platform is divided into four different sections: Unit Operations and Separations, Chemical Reaction, Process Systems Engineering and Biological Processes. These sections include simulators, applications and case studies to better understand the chemical/biochemical processes. This paper presents an assessment of the use of that platform by two different groups of students: a group of students from the 3rd year of the 1®· cycle of Chemical Engineering, and another group from a Project Design course (2nd year of the 2nd cycle degree, MSc, of Chemical Engineering), both from the University of Coimbra. The results presented reveal that the students are willing to use and feel positive and interested in using the platform.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"1 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":"131208861","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}
F. Dinis, Ana Sofia Guimarães, B. Carvalho, J. Martins
{"title":"An immersive Virtual Reality interface for Civil Engineering dissemination amongst pre-university students","authors":"F. Dinis, Ana Sofia Guimarães, B. Carvalho, J. Martins","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984423","url":null,"abstract":"Game-based interfaces and Virtual Reality (VR) environments have shown encouraging results regarding Engineering and educational applications. In the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector, several developments have been made regarding the application of games and VR experiences. Simultaneously, Engineering Education is gradually adapting new practises for improvising transferability of knowledge amongst students, which also entail gaming and VR-based applications. This paper includes a description of an immersive VR interface developed under the scope of an ongoing educational programme. The developed VR interface allows participants to explore a 3D model of one of the campus' buildings, simultaneously discovering the different disciplines of Civil Engineering.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"83 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":"122075776","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":"Integration of VGI and sensor data in a Web GIS-based platform to support emergency response","authors":"Diogo Fontes, C. Fonte, A. Cardoso","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984345","url":null,"abstract":"The major goal of this work is to develop a web GIS-based platform integrating geographic information from different sources to provide additional information to civil protection entities. It will integrate official geographic information (GI), Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and physical sensors data. This paper presents an analysis on how the VGI data from multiple sources and with different structures can be acquired and reorganized to be compiled in a single system.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"43 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":"129860534","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}
S. Pinto, P. Santos, Polyana Bezerra da Costa, P. Jansen, Daniela Costa, A. Paiva, M. Parente, Renato M. Natal Jorge
{"title":"Application of virtual reality techniques to a birth simulation","authors":"S. Pinto, P. Santos, Polyana Bezerra da Costa, P. Jansen, Daniela Costa, A. Paiva, M. Parente, Renato M. Natal Jorge","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984344","url":null,"abstract":"This project arises from the need of developing an immersive method to visualize and interact with biomechanical simulations, using virtual reality, namely with online and remote applications. This particular case illustrates a human birth through the vaginal canal. The present research refers the process used to achieve the tridimensional object, in order to create in future projects a tool with training purposes for professionals in the medical area.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"1 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":"130169388","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}
M. Felgueiras, A. Fidalgo, R. Costa, G. Alves, C. Pertry, Luis C. M. Schlichting
{"title":"A demonstration circuit to support (e-)learning on control systems engineering","authors":"M. Felgueiras, A. Fidalgo, R. Costa, G. Alves, C. Pertry, Luis C. M. Schlichting","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984380","url":null,"abstract":"Concepts of Control Systems are important as they are present in the operation of a broad set of systems in all engineering branches. Sustainability issues have led to an intensive use of these concepts on systems. However teaching / learning of Control Systems Engineering has always been a difficult subject not only for the underlying theoretical part, but also for the few examples that are traditionally possible to illustrate in laboratory classes. Shortcomings are revealed at a later time when students have to understand subjects that include stabilization mechanisms or even when they need to develop control solutions based on digital technology, such microcontrollers. The present work presents a circuit based on analog electronics that was designed to carry out local laboratory experiments. The circuit is designed to create evidence for the student and allows the comparison of the values obtained experimentally with those expected theoretically. The requirements were included in the project to allow experiments to be performed remotely when integrated into an appropriate platform.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"1 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":"131064111","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}
Rogerio Dionisio, P. Marques, Hugo Marques, Tiago Alves, Luis Pereira, F. Silva, J. Ribeiro
{"title":"Affordable LTE network benchmarking based on transport fleets","authors":"Rogerio Dionisio, P. Marques, Hugo Marques, Tiago Alves, Luis Pereira, F. Silva, J. Ribeiro","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984387","url":null,"abstract":"To gain competitive advantage in today's mobile market, cellular network testing, monitoring and improving customer experience is crucial. Today independent benchmarking companies are hired by mobile operators to run drive tests in a certain geographical areas. The high cost for running these tests results in a low frequency of execution, typically this benchmarking is executed no more than two or three times per year, which is not sufficient to follow the dynamics of an LTE network in a dense urban area. The majority of the drive testing costs come from the car, driver, and the in-car technician. Another approach is to take advantage of existing transportation companies to carry on network benchmarking services to Mobile Network Operators. Unattended measurement nodes can be deployed in existing transportation fleets without the need for dedicated field personnel, reducing the cost of testing up to 70%. This demo uses nodes placed in buses, available in several cities in Europe, to create and validate an automatic LTE network benchmark. The tool allows an easy comparative analyses of mobile network quality of Service and quality of experience parameters based on the operators raw data.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"21 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":"127883900","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":"Web physics ontology: Online interactive symbolic computation in physics","authors":"V. Cvjetkovic","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984405","url":null,"abstract":"Relationships among physical quantities (PQs) express fundamental laws of the Universe. Physics equations represent relationships among PQs and therefore encode the basic knowledge of physics. System of PQs is the natural framework of physics and can be used as a guideline for informational modelling of various scientific aspects of physics. Relationships among PQs can be used for creation of semantic web ontologies that model the knowledge of physics. Leading semantic web ontologies in physics today are based on system of units which directly relies on system of PQs. This paper describes interactive online web application based on symbolic computational ontology (SCO) that models knowledge of physics and which is based on system of PQs primarily, not units. Main SCO design principles can also be applied to other existing physics ontologies and for ontologies in other sciences using formulas. Interactive SCO based web application (SCO-BWA) illustrates dynamic generation of physics equations and numerical calculations.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"10 13","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120891931","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}