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Arquivos de vídeo e a Sociedade de Informação

O património cultural existente nos arquivos de televisão é enorme. A sua exploração e conservação tem estado ao cuidado dos seus produtores, únicas entidades capazes de dispor dos meios técnicos e humanos requeridos para a conservação e que o fazem pois daí retiram conteúdos para exibição nos seus canais generalistas ou temáticos. A chegada da sociedade da informação traz novas possibilidades de acesso que, pa...

How mobile can factor into a location based transmedia storytelling overall str...

Location based transmedia storytelling projects have been recently applied to tourism. They use several communication platforms, each with different objectives and targeting different types of users. These projects have the ability to connect ancient human experiences such as storytelling and games along with locative media, allowing users to explore locations, which are unfamiliar to them. This ...

The role of social media: the TravelPlot Porto case study

Social media plays an essential part on today’s marketing campaigns. It gives brands the opportunity to reach a worldwide audience with few resources, trying to influence the consumer decision-making process. In 2012, Porto became the setting of a pilot location based transmedia storytelling experiment – TravelPlot Porto. During twelve weeks, tourists were invited to physically embark on a treasu...

A talking face for Portuguese

Combination of speech output with animated agents, complete or represented by face alone, has many applications, including in telecommunications. Aiming at contributing to the availability of such technologies for our language, this paper presents the development of the necessary building blocks to have a talking face for Portuguese. Work focused on the adaptation of an available system, named RUTH, the develop...

High Performance Data Communication Switch for LAN interconnection

Local Area Networks are widely accepted and establish on the market. In order to search additional capabilities it is desirable the interconnection of the existing LANs, which can be done by a backbone network that spans distances of a broad site, like a university campus or an industrial site with multiple buildings. (...); As redes locais de transmissão de dados são universalmente aceites como um meio de liga...

Slant path microwave propagation studies using the orbital test satellite : mic...