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A integração da realidade virtual na educação: necessidades e desafios

É desafiante a implementação na educação da Realidade Virtual com recurso a headsets, que designo por Realidade Virtual Imersiva (iVR, immersive virtual reality), especialmente quanto à sua integração no currículo e práticas pedagógicas do ensino superior online. Entre os principais obstáculos estão a falta de orientações práticas e modelos pedagógicos claros, como modelos de design instrucional específicos. Os...

Frontiers of the past in the digital world: multidisciplinary collaboration in ...

The virtual reconstitution of Castelo de Vide, Portugal, within the FRONTOWNS project, highlights the challenges and successes of multidisciplinary collaboration in heritage preservation through 3D modeling. The goal was to reconstruct the town’s urban evolution, focusing on its role as a border settlement from the 13th to 16th centuries. The project combined archaeological evidence, historical sources, and dig...

É bué fixe ser fixe online: discutindo o desenvolvimento de um jogo educativo/f...

Perfil tendencial de comportamento dos ocupantes em caso de incêndio

A importância do comportamento humano em situações de evacuação é reconhecida por todos os que de algum modo estão relacionados com a segurança contra incêndios em edifícios, como é comprovado pelo elevado número de estudos e projetos de investigação que têm sido desenvolvidos. Nesta comunicação apresentam-se os resultados de um projeto de investigação, que deu origem a uma tese de doutoramento, cujo objetivo f...

Affective Landscapes: navigating the emotional impact of Multisensory Stimuli i...

In this study we explore the impact of multisensory stimuli in virtual reality on users’ emotional responses, addressing a knowledge gap in this rapidly evolving field. Utilizing a range of sensory inputs, including taste, haptics, and smell, in addition to audiovisual cues, this study aims to understand how different combinations of these stimuli affect the users’ emotional experience. Two immersive virtual ex...

Interdisciplinary co-creation of a multiplayer gamified mobile app to address h...

Guiding evacuees to Improve fire building evacuation efficiency: hazard and con...

Fires in large buildings can have tragic consequences, including the loss of human lives. Despite the advancements in building construction and fire safety technologies, the unpredictable nature of fires, particularly in large buildings, remains an enormous challenge. Acknowledging the paramount importance of prioritising human safety, the academic community has been focusing consistently on enhancing the effic...

Inven!RA Architecture for sustainable deployment of immersive learning environm...

The objective of this work was to support the sustainable deployment of immersive learning environments, which face varied obstacles, including the lack of support infrastructures for active learning pedagogies. Sustainability from the perspective of the integration of these environments in educational practice entails situational awareness, workload, and the informed assessment ability of participants, which m...

Measuring users’ emotional responses in multisensory virtual reality: a systema...

Virtual reality and emotions have become inseparable concepts over the past few years, supported by the increasing number of studies relating them. However, these studies' methodologies are often poorly justified or dependent on the authors' subjective definition of emotion and its classification. Moreover, frequently, these studies only consider two stimuli, specifically audiovisual, despite being known the re...

Inovação sustentável e aprendizagem integrada com o laboratório aberto de exper...

The Open Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Experimentation (LAEI) had its 1st edition as UC "lnovPed" in the academic year 2018/2019, resulting from a proposal presented by professors from the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Engineering and collaborators of the U. Porto. Imp1ementing the U.OpenLah concept and involving students from different degrees and scientific areas, LAEI has sought to develop basic skills and a...