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4th IEEE International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games’12)
The fourth IEEE International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (2012) aims to meet the significant challenges of the cross-disciplinary community that work around these serious application areas by bringing the community together to share case studies of practice, to present new frameworks, methodologies and theories and to begin the process of developing shared cross-disciplinary outputs. In order to achieve this main aim the conference will pioneer new methods for bringing together and supporting communities of practice emerging in themed areas beyond the duration of the conference. Using the conference as an ignition to support a wider aspiration to form and sustain a community of practice around the field.
The term 'Serious Games' covers a broad range of applications from flash-based animations to totally immersive and code driven 3D environments where users interface with large volumes of data through sophisticated and interactive digital interfaces. This shift towards immersive world applications being used to support education, health and training activities marks the beginning of new challenges that offer real scope for collaborative and multi-disciplinary research solutions, and real opportunities for innovative development.
We invite researchers, developers, practitioners and decision-makers working with or applying serious games in their communities to present papers in the following two main streams of the conference: games and virtual world applications for serious applications. The conference will explore games and virtual worlds particularly but not exclusively in relation to:
Aims
The conference aims to ask and search for answers to the following questions:
- In what ways are games and virtual world applications effective tools?
- What founding theories and approaches are emerging to support the field?
- What and how can different technologies contribute to build ever better serious games?
- What are the benefits of serious games for end-users and stakeholders? How can benefits be assessed?
- What are the technologies (e.g. applications, platforms, engines) that are most effective in which areas and for what targets?
- What cross-disciplinary approaches are emerging to support design, development and implementation of the technologies?
- How and for what benefits is user generated content supported?
Školiace rozhrania na pedagogickú podporu samostatne regulovaného vzdelávania v PVP
iClass je integrovaný projekt, ktorý čiastočne financuje Rámcový program pre výskum a technologický rozvoj Európskej komisie. Aj keď pôvodne začal s rozvojom inteligentnej platformy orientovanej na používateľa, vzdelávacia vízia projektu sa v treťom roku aktualizovala a cieľom sa stalo priniesť podporu samostatne regulovanej personalizácie v hlavných prostrediach virtuálneho vzdelávania.
V tomto článku vysvetľujeme charakteristiky vytvárania vizuálnych rozhraní RIA iClass ako význam typických regulačných štruktúr. Opíšeme semiotické princípy spočívajúce pod každým významom a úlohu vizualizácie pri uvádzaní do konečného stavu a operačnom posilňovaní.


