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- Centro de Computação Gráfica: the new mission and the futurePublication . Marcos, Adérito; Amaral, Luís; Rodrigues, António GuimarãesThis article reports on the refoundation process of CCG. With a new constitutional member(the University of Minho), new constitution and bylaws, and a new management, and also due to the process of national expansion, the CCG and the University of Minho (UM), one of the most prestigious contemporary universities in Portugal, initiated a careful process of transformation and restructuring in October 1999.
- Xue Han Zi: using multimedia to teach chinesePublication . Lam, Sun; Oliveira, Alexandre Rocha; Lavender, Tony; Cabral, Luís; Marcos, AdéritoAs the Chinese-speaking areas are becoming the focus of the world economy, more and more people are attracted by their language and culture. The number of beginners in Chinese language is growing rapidly. Although the Chinese language has unique characteristics, there are still very few teaching and learning materials which serve the basic needs for starting the acquisition of Han Zi. A multimedia application, both in CD-ROM and on-line, can provide a virtual teacher for understanding and learning Chinese writing at an elementary level and, without doubt, can attract more learners.
- PROSSEIA-VR: training in the virtual environmentsPublication . Grave, Luís; Escaleira, Cristina; Marcos, AdéritoThe Virtual Reality (VR) field can provide a wide variety of industrial applications. We can find several examples in the automobile industry, where VR is used for tasks like design, wind tunnel simulators, assemble/disassemble, etc. However, all these applications are designed to be used by VR experts,or well trained personnel. This happens because the VR devices and the VR interaction metaphors are not yet well developed to fulfil the needs of an inexperienced user, like robustness, failure recovery, easiness of use. All these aspects have to be resolved before an inexperienced user can effectively use such a system. The article reports about a two years CCG's industrial project aimet at solving, at least partially, this problem, targeting the training on wire twist assembly for the automobile industry.