The world is continually changing: the emergence of new technology and new demands for pertinent information pose new challenges and possibilities for forest management. Are forest growth models keeping up with client needs? To remain relevant, modelers need to anticipate client needs, gauge the data needed to satisfy these demands, develop the tools to collect and analyze these data efficientl...

Teaching Methodology for 3D Animation The integration of computing, telecommunication, visualization and new interaction techniques will change and expand the paradigm of teacher-student interaction. The role of a teacher in this century will be different and will be based on traditional teaching techniques with technology and its implementation. The use of advanced visualization tools will pla...

Virtual communities have become significant applications for the Internet. Previous studies usually treated virtual communities as places for people to share and exchange information and did not explain the social value of communities well. This study treated a virtual community as a stage on which people can present themselves to other users while others can see the shows of people to satisfy ...

A goal for the creation and improvement of music recommendation is to retrieve users’ preferences and select the music adapting to the preferences. Although the existing researches achieved a certain degree of success and inspired future researches to get more progress, problem of the cold start recommendation and the limitation to the similar music have been pointed out. Hence we incorporate c...

Abstract Police recruits undertake mandatory training programmes to prepare for conflict situations. To motivate engage in what is called “police training” (“Polizeitraining” or “Einsatztraining”) Germany, police trainers should design activities that align with the want from training. As such, current study investigated wants and subjective needs of by asking twenty-seven a German force identi...

In the present days the search engines return the same results for the same query, regardless of the user’s interest. So in order to avoid that we introduce new concept called personalization. The Personalized Search aims to customize search results according to each individual user for him to find the most relevant documents to him on the top by considering his idiosyncrasies. This could possi...

Current search engines with arrays of servers can provide efficient web content services. However, as their returned results are usually enormous mass, finding target information is still time-consuming. To increase the correctness of returned results, different page ranking methods were introduced. Some of them also try to use users’ feedback to increase their precision in ranking. However, as...

This article presents a concept of distance sound source sonification for virtual auditory displays in the context of the creation of an assistive device for the visually impaired. In order to respond to user needs, three sonification metaphors of distance based on sound effects were designed. These metaphors can be applied to any type of sound and thereby satisfy all aesthetic desires of users...