We used field-collected seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae) to simulate a colonization event of plants from diverse locations into a common environment to compare regionally "local" and "foreign" populations of this historically mobile species. Life history varied among regional groups, but most variation was found among populations within regions. While we found significant difference...

In this study, a group of students worked as team to create and cocreate short film in situated learning environment. The presents Chinese Han characters narrative that employs the poetic audio-visual features characters. We used expert interviews verify teaching effects interpret Characters: ‘Trace Back’.

In Africa around 2,500 languages are spoken. Some of these languages have their own indigenous scripts. Accordingly, there is a bulk of printed documents available in libraries, information centers, museums and offices. Digitization of these documents enables to harness already available information technologies to local information needs and developments. This paper presents an Optical Charact...

Soldiers in foreign missions need to be able to interact with local people while taking their cultural and social norms into account. Serious games offer an opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills to act appropriately, provided that the virtual characters behave according to the norms to be learned. This paper presents research on how to model the characteristics of social groups into t...

This paper presents an interactive theatre based on an embodied mixed reality space and wearable computers. Embodied computing mixed reality spaces integrate ubiquitous computing, tangible interaction and social computing within a mixed reality space, which enables intuitive interaction with physical world and virtual world. We believe it has potential advantages to support novel interactive th...