In the last few years, the University of Aveiro, Portugal, has been offering several distance learning courses over the Web, using e-learning platforms. Experience showed that dif...
Integration systems typically support only a restricted set of queries over the schema they export. The reason is that the participating information sources contribute limited con...
Problem-based learning is a pedagogical strategy that centers learning activities around the investigation and development of solutions to complex and ill-structured authentic pro...
When information services are organized to provide some composed functionality, their interactions can be formally represented as workflows. Traditionally, workflows are executed...
In this paper, we discuss scripting tools that aim at facilitating the design of web-based interactions with animated characters capable of affective communication. Specifically, ...
Helmut Prendinger, Sylvain Descamps, Mitsuru Ishiz...