Online Interaction

A Web-based Geographic Information System (WebGIS) is a powerful tool that facilitates geospatial data dissemination and provides data at the client level with ease. Unlike conventional GIS services, WebGIS can disseminate geodata from different branches like Geotechnical, Geoengineering and Remote Sensing, with the assistance of internet services in a dynamic manner. WebGIS has further advantages, including cloud-based storage, real-time data updates and iterative mapping in dynamic ways. Moreover, it facilitates data accessibility and can lead to a more straightforward decision-making process at the policy-making level. Hence, Geo-Information for the Implementation of a Climate Change-Resilient Urbanisation (GICU) project takes the initiative to host a WebGIS that contributes to the development of a proper linkage between research, government and the public, which ultimately leads to sustainable geodata development in Bangladesh.

A Web-based Geographic Information System (WebGIS) is a powerful tool that facilitates geospatial data dissemination and provides data at the client level with ease. Unlike conventional GIS services, WebGIS can disseminate geodata from different branches like Geotechnical, Geoengineering and Remote Sensing, with the assistance of internet services in a dynamic manner. WebGIS has further advantages, including cloud-based storage, real-time data updates and iterative mapping in dynamic ways. Moreover, it facilitates data accessibility and can lead to a more straightforward decision-making process at the policy-making level. Hence, Geo-Information for the Implementation of a Climate Change-Resilient Urbanisation (GICU) project takes the initiative to host a WebGIS that contributes to the development of a proper linkage between research, government and the public, which ultimately leads to sustainable geodata development in Bangladesh.

Este artigo discute as transformações trazidas pela comunicação mediada por computadores, e, mais especificamente, os serviços de redes sociais na internet, para a expressão subjetiva, o relato cotidiano e a escrita de si. Mais tarde, a partir de resultados quantitativos obtidos através de uma survey que alcançou 810 respondentes, discute-se os usos mais prevalentes do Facebook: manter-se informado sobre temas atuais; divertir-se com piadas, vídeos e fotos engraçados; participarde campanhas de conscientização; falar sobre trabalho e saber do crescimento profissional de outros; e saber o que amigos, inimigos e desafetos estão fazendo.This article discusses the transformations brought about by computer-mediated communication, and more specifically online social networking services, for subjective expression, journaling and self writing. Later, based on quantitative results obtained through a survey that reached 810 respondents, this paper discusses the most prevalent uses of Facebook:...

Various methods allow people to share artifacts, such as photos, messages, and web pages, with their online community. However, a person interested in an artifact currently has no sense of whether other people in the community have interacted with it. Our goal was to make these artifact interactions explicit. To do this, we designed a compact, artifact-centered visualization that shows the artifact's past and present interaction history. This visualization was used to facilitate the analysis of interaction data collected from an ...

The 50 th anniversary of WSC provides a good opportunity to reflect on how widely simulation is used in the business world to support problem solving and decision making. This paper posits that, despite the success of the WSC, simulation is not as widely used as it should be and that a major cause is a general lack of understanding of the value of simulation outside of the simulation-specialist community. However, this paper suggests that one way to increase the use of simulation is through changes in education. As part of the review and development of suggested changes, the paper examines the activities related to education at the WSC. It then offers a variety of suggestions for how the simulation education community -including academics, practitioners, and vendors -can help to address this issue.

Nearpod is an all-encompassing Edtech tool that can be used for language teaching and learning in multiple modalities. The comprehensive and interactive online platform allows instructors to carry out lesson plans for a variety of subject areas. It is a web-based and synchronous platform (and a Mobile App) that allows for the immediate sharing of lessons by pushing out content to the learners via their devices. It also allows for the collection of feedback from the students' answers and engages students in activities by allowing them to scroll through and interact with the different types of content. The instructor can create and use live lessons on the device to instantly share media with the student or choose a saved lesson to present. Nearpod is easy to use for collaboration, assessment, and virtual reality and live streaming activities and tasks. Nearpod is a real-time assessment tool that facilitates interaction with the students and forges meaningful content collaboration amongst all the students. It encourages content integration for language instructors for classroom success since it easily integrates with other content delivery applications and systems (i.e., Google Drive, Dropbox, YouTube, LMSs like Blackboard, Canvass, etc.). This review will evaluate and review the Nearpod tool and describe how its design and use is connected to second language acquisition theory for foreign language pedagogy.

Mikros – (meaning for micro in Latin) is a compact flush spacecraft toilet designed to operate in microgravity and lunar gravity environments. This toilet is designed to provide improved comfort and convenience levels for the astronaut crew members in NASA’s deep space missions. The concept is focussed on offering improved ergonomics, easy maintenance and impedance of burping issues. Since the focus of this toilet design is on odor elimination and flush maintenance, the design and the ergonomics of the toilet bowl were given importance during conceptualization. The toilet bowl consists of porous holes drilled along it’s lateral surface, made from Carbon Fiber. A current of compressed air of desirable baric pressure is fed into these holes to create a two-pressure difference region, with a vacuum pump to pull down the solid waste into the collection chamber via suction. The design thus ensures that the waste particle will not adhere to the toilet bowl surface. The project scope is substantially focused on compact sizing and control of power consumption, noise decibel levels within competition limits, as a submission for NASA’s Lunar Loo Challenge in August 2020.

Web accessibility remains a critical challenge for individuals with dyslexia, who often experience difficulties in reading, navigation, and information processing in digital environments. Although international standards such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) exist, many websites fail to incorporate design features that support users with dyslexia. The present study employed a quantitative within-subject design to examine the impact of accessibility-enhanced web interfaces on usability and cognitive strain among users with dyslexia in Pakistan. The final sample (N = 100) were individuals with a formal diagnosis of dyslexia confirmed by a certified psychologist (M = 21.8 years, SD = 3.5) completed structured web-based tasks under two conditions: conventional web design and enhanced accessibility design. Usability outcomes included task completion time, error rate, and perceived readability, while cognitive strain outcomes included scores on the NASA Task Load Index (NASA-TLX). Paired-sample t-tests indicated that participants completed tasks faster on accessibility-enhanced interfaces (M = 9.1 min, SD = 2.6) than on conventional websites (M = 13.2 min, SD = 3.1), p < .001, with fewer errors and higher readability ratings. Cognitive strain scores across all NASA-TLX dimensions were significantly lower under the accessibility condition (p < .001). These findings demonstrate that dyslexia-friendly design features, including readable fonts, optimized contrast, and simplified layouts, substantially improve usability and reduce cognitive burden. The study provides evidence-based recommendations for inclusive web design and highlights the need for greater adoption of accessibility focused digital practices in Pakistan.

Virtual illustration of a human face is essential to enhance the mutual interaction in a cyber community. In this paper we propose a solution to solve two bottlenecks in facial analysis and synthesis for an interactive system of human face cloning for non-expert users of computer games. Tactical maneuvers of the gamer make single camera acquisition system unsuitable to analyze and track the face due to its large lateral movements. For an improved facial analysis system, we propose to acquire the facial images from multiple cameras and analyze them by multiobjective 2.5D Active Appearance Model (MOAAM). Facial morphological dissimilarities between a human face and an avatar make the facial synthesis quite complex. To successfully clone or retarget the gamer facial expressions and gestures on to an avatar, we introduce a simple mathematical link between their appearances. Results obtained validate the efficiency, accuracy and robustness achieved.

El rapido desarrollo de la ensenanza y aprendizaje a distancia ha llevado realizarcomparaciones entre los ambientes virtuales y presenciales. Aunque loscursos dados electronicamente difieren, de alguna forma, de aquellos ensenadosen una clase tradicional, el docente en ambos ambientes puede motivar elaprendizaje activo y puede estar accesible y disponible a todos los alumnos. Elfomentar las interacciones y relaciones significativas, no solo entre el estudiantey el profesor, sino tambien entre los mismos estudiantes, se puede lograr en sumayoria segun el diseno del curso y las actividades que contenga. Los profesoresque establecen inmediacion y los que demuestran valorar tanto la calidad delcontenido, como la calidad de las relaciones en sus clases podran ser exitososen un curso virtual o en uno a distancia.