Virtual Reality technologies have been successfully incorporated into the learning processes and potential new applications in education are explored continuously. We found that one of the difficulties to popularize its use in the educational context, in countries with emerging and developing economies, is the cost of hardware required to generate satisfactory immersive experience. In this work...

the current research tries to offer a conceptual model in order to create trust among people for choosing virtual universities. to this end, the conceptual model of research has been designed with nine factors. the relationship among factors tested by using statistical methods such as factor analysis and path analysis. in the end, five components were established from among the affecting factor...

We measure the predictive accuracy of Internet-based product concept testing that incorporates virtual prototypes of new products. The method employs a two-factor conjoint analysis of prototypes and prices to enable a design team to select the best of several new concepts within a product category. Our results indicate that virtual prototypes on the Web provide nearly the same results as physic...

Interactive dissection simulation is an important research topic in the virtual reality (VR) community. There are many efforts on this topic; however, most of them focus on building a realistic simulation system regardless of the cost, and they often require expensive workstations and specialized haptic devices which prevent broader adoption. We show how to build a realistic dissection simulati...

The Virtual Enterprise model relies on dynamically reconfigurable collaborative networks, with extremely high performances, strongly timeoriented while highly focused on cost and quality, in permanent alignment with the market, and strongly supported by information and communication technology. Networking and reconfiguration dynamics are the main characteristics of this model, which claim for e...

In coastal water monitoring, abrupt pH changes might indicate different pollution sources. Existing sensors for monitoring in waters at low cost are mainly based on a glass membrane and reference electrode. Virtual elements capable of measuring certain parameters data from other or variables. The aim this paper is to propose the use virtual sensor physical effects H+ electromagnetic field gener...