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Using VisTrails and Provenance for Teaching Scientific Visualization
(The Eurographics Association, 2010)Over the last 20 years, visualization courses have been developed and offered at universities around the world. Many of these courses use established visualization libraries and tools (e.g., VTK, ParaView, AVS, VisIt) as ... -
Computer Graphics for Information System Programmers
(The Eurographics Association, 2010)An introductory computer graphics course is always a challenge. It is even more so if computer graphics is an additional component to a general computer science degree. In this instance, it is really important to discuss ... -
Educating Students in Official Statistics using Embedded Geovisual Analytics Storytelling Methods
(The Eurographics Association, 2010)Official statistics such as demographics, environment, health, social-economy and education from national and sub-national sources are a rich and important source of information for many important aspects of life and should ... -
No More Reinventing the Virtual Wheel: Middleware for Use in Computer Games and Interactive Computer Graphics Education
(The Eurographics Association, 2010)The creation of application frameworks for teaching computer graphics has always been a time-consuming task, alleviated by the use of graphics API s that allow students more scope in investigating and creating graphics ... -
Experimental Feedback on Prog and Play, a Serious Game for Programming Practice
(The Eurographics Association, 2010)This paper presents an experimental feedback on a serious game dedicated to strengthening programming skills. This serious game called Prog&Play is built on an open source realtime strategy game. Its goal is to be compatible ... -
Intelligent Games for Education - An Intention Monitoring Approach based on Dynamic Bayesian Network
(The Eurographics Association, 2010)Computer games have become one of the preferred choices for entertainment in our society primarily because they are interactive, have appealing multimedia content, and provide an immersive and rewarding environment for ... -
Digitizing Data: Computational Thinking for Middle School Students through Computer Graphics
(The Eurographics Association, 2010)The concept of digitized data is fundamental to computer science, yet for many students, there is a disconnect between objects they encounter outside the computer and the data they interact with in the computer. A ... -
Using Augmented Reality as a Medium to Assist Teaching in Higher Education
(The Eurographics Association, 2010)In this paper we describe the use of a high-level augmented reality (AR) interface for the construction of collabo- rative educational applications that can be used in practice to enhance current teaching methods. A ... -
A Computer Animation System for Creating Deaf-Accessible Math and Science Curriculum Materials
(The Eurographics Association, 2010)In this paper we report the development and initial evaluation of the ASL system. The ASL system is an innovative software tool that allows educators of the Deaf to add sign language translation, in the form of 3D character ...