Companies operating in today’s global economy are increasingly expected to manage the entire lifecycle of their products, and are Vnding advantage in a distributed, collaborative working style. Existing 3D CAD systems are not well adapted to this way of working, however. This paper highlights some limitations in the current applications, and presents a framework for overcoming them based on thr...

Introduction Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) have emerged in recent years as an increasingly popular form of entertainment. They offer persistent, richly detailed 3D universes in which players cooperate or compete with each other, trade, and socialize. In this, they share characteristics with the more broadly-defined virtual worlds (VWs), their distinguishing feature being a more obj...

Museums must assess visitors’ experience to understand them and their needs. TripAdvisor provides an accessible source of user-generated data about the visit experience, but there is limited empirical evidence on value automated elaboration this for museum management. This paper uses topic modeling identify latent dimensions 30 most-visited Italian museums in 2019 using online reviews. Differen...

Due to their nested structure, double emulsions have the potential encapsulate value-adding substances until application, making them of interest various industries. However, complex, structure negatively affects stability emulsions. Still, there is a lack suitable measurement technology fundamentally understand cause instability mechanisms taking place. This study presents novel method continu...

In recent years, games and learning researchers have increasingly become interested in the "affinity spaces" (Gee, 2004) around popular videogames, identifying them as instructional spaces (Squire and Giovanetto, 2008) and contexts in which sophisticated reasoning practices are enacted (Steinkuehler and Duncan, 2008). However, the motivation for participation in these communities as well as the...

AudioSapiana is a listening and walking robot designed by the audio group at the 2005 Neuromorphic Workshop. We added ears to a RoboSapien robot from Wow-Wee Entertainment to help it navigate in a difficult, obstacle-strewn environment. Previously, robots that oriented themselves towards a target beacon were designed to work in quiet environments. Audiosapiana, however, was designed so she coul...

Once supporting the electrical and mechanical functionality, software today became the main competitive advantage in products. However, in the companies that we study, the way in which software features are developed still reflects the traditional ‘requirements over the wall’ approach. As a consequence, individual departments prioritize what they believe is the most important and are unable to ...

In our ongoing research and development project, called “In the Web of Words” (WoW), funded by the National R+D Program in Hungary, we aim to create a complex search interface that incorporates— beside the usual keyword-based search functionality—(1) deep web search, (2) Hungarian natural language question processing, (3) image search support by visual thesaurus. This paper focuses on a particu...