By judiciously selecting topics and reading materials, one can teach a full semester course on medical physics appropriate for college students not majoring in the natural sciences. This interdisciplinary field offers an opportunity to teach a great deal of basic physics at the freshman level in the context of explaining modern medical technologies such as ultrasound imaging, laser surgery, and...

Electronic response systems known as “clickers” can enrich interactions in large audiences and have demonstrated educational benefits in well-resourced classrooms, but are cost-prohibitive in most environments. In an accompanying paper [1], we propose a new, low-cost technique that utilizes computer vision for real-time polling of large audiences. Our approach allows a presenter to ask a multip...

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used to describe a system that needed to interface with many external systems, at various levels of detail appropriate for a variety of user, developer, and tester audiences. Rational’s Rose CASE tool was used to produce a variety of UML-based products for these audiences.

We performed the musical work “Sense of Space” which uses the sound ID with high frequency sound DTMF. The IDs are embedded into the music, audiences' smartphones and tablets at the venue reacted to the IDs and then they play music pieces. We considered the possibility for novel music experiences brought about through the participation of audiences and spreading sound at the music venue.

this article is based on findings of research in the field of audiences of iranian modern and popular paintings which examines the problem of difference or indifference of the personal and social characteristics of iranian modern and popular paintings’ audiences and their artistic taste. moreover, factors effective on shaping these differences are examined. the general finding of the research s...

Popular communication research can benefit from a historical approach. Consistent with current approaches, historical research is contextual (e.g., looking at actual audiences in natural settings). It is also comparative. Comparing radio to television helps to highlight by contrast features not otherwise noticed, including assumptions we have made unawares. Historical research is developmental,...

This paper presents our first experience teaching WebGL in a master's degree for a class of students with very different backgrounds. The main challenge was to prepare a course that would be engaging for students with computer graphics experience, and yet interesting and non-frustrating for those students unfamiliar with OpenGL. In this paper we explain how we prepared this course, and the proj...