The practice of teaching and learning Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design has to develop its own approaches that balance method and technology use with reflective and situated practice. We present our HCI design studio course that makes a combined use of constructivist pedagogies and virtual worlds aiming to aid students reflect on the use of related methods and technologies in design and t...

Technology is transforming the education and practice of architecture and design. The newest form of education is blended learning, which combines personal interaction from live class sessions with online education for greater learning flexibility (Abrams & Haefner, 2002). Reluctant to join the digital era are educators teaching studio courses (Bender & Good, 2003), who may be unaware of the po...

In the last two decades, there has been a significant increase in infrastructure development on slopes of hilly regions world, due to population growth. There are many infrastructures unsaturated expansive slopes, especially semi-arid and arid regions. Rainfall infiltration is one major factors that contributes slope foundations failures with soils. current study, rational approach proposed con...

With the increase in rainfall, landslides occur on many gentle slopes mountainous areas of southeast China. Gentle have a particular dual geological structure, i.e., lower part is gravel soil layer with good water permeability, and surface clay relatively poor permeability. Under conditions heavy slope this structure likely to collect temporary confined water. The intermittent creep upper cause...

The “Algorithms Studio” project explores a novel, studio-based approach to teaching an undergraduate course on computer algorithms. Inspired by the design studio commonly used in architecture education, the approach emphasizes conceptual design activities in which students use sketch-based algorithm visualization technology to create their own visual representations of the algorithms under stud...

The Web Services Modelling Framework (WSMF) and the Web Services Modelling Ontology (WSMO) provide a unique, highly innovative perspective onto the Semantic Web and Web Service technologies. This paper presents the WSMO Studio – a prototype that supports and elaborates this innovative perspective, making the technology easy to use and transparent for the end user. Our previous work on the SWWS ...

RT-Studio (Real Time Studio) is an integrated environment for modeling, simulation and automatic verification of realtime systems modeled as networks of Interpreted Time Petri Nets (ITPNs). The tool allows to construct several abstractions for ITPNs suitable to verify reachability, linear and branching properties, in addition to a TCTL model checker. In this paper we describe the ITPN model as ...

This practice paper explores the intersection of school studio-music pedagogy and positive psychology in order to enhance students' learning and engagement. The paper has a practitioner focus and puts forward a new model of studio teaching, the Positive Instruction in Music Studios (PIMS) model that guides teachers through four key positive psychology processes that can be used in a music lesso...

What’s new and changed during last couple of years at CCRMA, with a special focus on The Knoll, our newly renovated building.