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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Virtual Simulations"”.
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Developing effective virtual simulations and serious games: the effect of background sound cues on visual quality perception
Virtual simulations and serious games (video game-based technologies applied to teaching and learning) have been incorporated in the teaching and training curricula of a large number of professions including medicine/surgery. Despite their benefits, there are open, fundamental issues regarding …
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The Effectiveness of Virtual Simulations Impacting Conceptual Knowledge and Proficiency of Laboratory Techniques in an Undergraduate Microbiology Laboratory Course
… parental guidance, exposure and unpreparedness. Virtual labs were designed to enhance users’ knowledge on basic scientific techniques and promote career awareness in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics related to food safety. An insufficient amount of research has studied the …
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A Common Component-based Software Architecture For Military And Commercial Pc-based Virtual Simulation
<p>Commercially available military-themed virtual simulations have been developed and sold for entertainment since the beginning of the personal computing era. There exists an intense interest by various branches of the military to leverage the technological advances of the personal computing and …
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Interdisciplinary collaboration towards developing platforms for simulation-based learning: Moirai - no-code virtual serious game authoring platform - and the GEN – Gamified Educational Network
The adoption of technology, including virtual simulation and serious gaming, has facilitated the adoption of experiential (“hands-on”) learning as an additional method of healthcare education, in lieu of face-to-face instructions, healthcare placements, or in the case of unavailability of …
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A comparison of seated and room-scale virtual reality on medical-based serious games and virtual simulation
… a primary purpose other than entertainment, are virtual simulations which can address many of these issues while remaining proven tools for effective skills transfer to the real world. This thesis presents two serious games for anesthesia training, one dealing with anesthesia crisis resource …
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Topobo : a gestural design tool with kinetic memory
… kinetic systems, both in physical materials and virtual simulations, provides a methodology to better understand and explore the forces and dynamics of our physical environment. The need to experiment, prototype and model with programmable kinetic forms is becoming increasingly important as …
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Development of an Electronic Stability Control for Improved Vehicle Handling using Co-Simulation
… dynamics (MBD) software for full vehicle simulations. Among various control strategies for ESC, the sliding mode control (SMC) method is proposed to develop these algorithms, as it is proven to be excellent at overcoming the effect of uncertainties and disturbances. The ESC model …
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A graph-based real-time spatial sound framework
… the real world, incorporating spatial sound in virtual environments can help increase realism, improve the sense of “presence”, or “immersion”, improve task performance, and improve navigation speed and accuracy. However, despite advancements in the real-time simulation of spatial sound, current …
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The Effectiveness of Science Instruction with Digital Simulations in Elementary Settings for Quantitative Sensemaking
… best practices in sensemaking approaches with virtual simulations to determine whether these practices would provide effective intervention and improve students’ blended math and science sensemaking abilities at the qualitative and quantitative levels, as well as a general outcome of how this …
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Extending the Reach of Educational Research: Applying Product Commercialization Processes to Communities of Practice
… to create tangible educational products; such as virtual simulations, instructional videos, and printed materials; which can be easily and widely distributed. In order to transform research into products, members of the research community must adopt and implement certain product commercialization …
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Biomechanical simulation of virtual physiological humans : modeling of musculoskeletal kinematic and dynamic redundancy using coordinate projection methods
… planning problem and the process of synthesizing virtual simulations. This is of great importance, since simulations can be arranged effortlessly and intuitively. Joint space representation is the de facto standard for formulating the underlying equations of motion and dynamics simulation methods. …
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Modelling approaches for the low-frequency analysis of built-up structures with non-deterministic properties
Virtual simulations of the behaviour of mechanical systems are of widespread use in academia and industry. Mechanical structures are often analysed using the finite element method, where deterministic models with one particular set of physical parameters are employed. However, the underlying …
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Investigation of Novel Displacement-Controlled Hydraulic Architectures for Railway Construction and Maintenance Machines
… analyses are conducted via high-fidelity virtual simulations involving accurate modeling of the rail/wheel interface. The performance of the propulsion systems is proven by acceptable velocity tracking, accurate stopping position, achieving regenerative braking, and the expected behavior …
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Total knee replacement serious game for surgical education and training
Traditionally, orthopaedic surgical training has primarily taken place in the operating room. Given the growing trend of decreasing resident work hours in North America and globally due to political mandate, training time in the operating room has generally been decreased. This has led to less …
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Design and Implementation of Articulated Robotic Tails to Augment the Performance of Reduced Degree-of-Freedom Legged Robots
… The tail prototypes, in conjunction with virtual simulations of the quadruped and biped robot, were used in experiments and simulations to implement and analyze the methods for maneuvering and stabilizing the proposed legged robots. Results successfully demonstrate the tails' ability to …
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File to Factory: Design for Assembly Workflows in Architecture
… testing will be prototyped through the use of virtual simulations and rapid digitally prototyped mock-ups. If deficiencies are found during the evaluation process, amendments can be quickly made to the digital model for successive iterative tests. The four creative schemes have been produced …
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Development of dynamic computational model for an integrated farming system
… IFS and applies that model to several computer simulations based on different scenarios. This dynamic system model for IFS integrates swine production, swine barn energy requirements, anaerobic digestion (AD) processes, anaerobic digester heat requirements, combined heat and power (CHP) …