The Striso is a new expressive music instrument with an acoustic feel, which is designed to be intuitive to play and playable everywhere. The sound of every note can be precisely controlled using the direction and pressure sensitive buttons, combined with instrument motion like tilting or shaking. It works standalone, with an internal speaker and battery, and is meant as a self contained instru...

In order to design a tool which really suit to work situations, we have to know them. Therefore, we analyse nominal, “usual”, situations in order to know the work processes of the forecasters. Nevertheless, the SIGOONS tool will be used during critical thunderstorm phenomenon. Thus, we also analyse critical situations, that means extreme situation, emergency, crisis and disaster. Since the earl...

In this paper we investigate the periodic structure of rich words (i.e., words having the highest possible number of palindromic factors), giving new results relating them with periodic-like words. In particular, some new characterizations of rich words and rich palindromes are given. We also prove that a periodic-like word is rich if and only if the square of its fractional root is also rich.

This chapter summarizes the experience collected after years of researching and experiencing on teaching and learning online in the form of an eLearning pattern-architecture. In this architecture, based upon the leading role of the human factor (according to the vision of the eLearning by GRIAL Group), the whole processes occurring within any training activity is represented, from the instituti...

This paper will present observations on the design, artistic, and human factors of creating digital music controllers. Specific projects will be presented, and a set of design principles will be supported from those examples.

Previous studies have examined human-to-human dialogue in expert tutoring on the speech act level, but these analyses fail to provide the context necessary for understanding how a series of speech acts relate to each other. This research examined tutorial dialogue in terms of sustained, pedagogically distinct phases, referred to as tutoring “modes”, which gives context to the finer-grained anal...

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