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“Learning from real life and not books”: A gamified approach to Business English task design in transatlantic telecollaboration
2017
This paper deals with task design in the context of a telecollaboration project which was carried out in a Business English course among students from Spain and the United States. The goal was to provide students with opportunities to develop linguistic, intercultural and digital competences by interacting and collaborating online with native speakers of the target language. A task-based approach was adopted and enriched by gamification, the different tasks being designed with a view towards engaging students intrinsically in the learning process. This was achieved by means of the adoption of gamification strategies and techniques such as the use of points, performance graphs, quests, avata…
Testing audiovisual comprehension tasks with questions embedded in videos as subtitles: a pilot multimethod study
2017
<p>Listening, watching, reading and writing simultaneously in a foreign language is very complex. This paper is part of wider research which explores the use of audiovisual comprehension questions imprinted in the video image in the form of subtitles and synchronized with the relevant fragments for the purpose of language learning and testing. Compared to viewings where the comprehension activity is available only on paper, this innovative methodology may provide some benefits. Among them, it could reduce the conflict in visual attention between watching the video and completing the task, by spatially and temporally approximating the questions and the relevant fragments. The technique…
A focused ultrasound treatment system for moving targets (part I): generic system design and in-silico first-stage evaluation
2017
Abstract Background Focused ultrasound (FUS) is entering clinical routine as a treatment option. Currently, no clinically available FUS treatment system features automated respiratory motion compensation. The required quality standards make developing such a system challenging. Methods A novel FUS treatment system with motion compensation is described, developed with the goal of clinical use. The system comprises a clinically available MR device and FUS transducer system. The controller is very generic and could use any suitable MR or FUS device. MR image sequences (echo planar imaging) are acquired for both motion observation and thermometry. Based on anatomical feature tracking, motion pr…
Nuevas formas de llevar una ópera al teatro. Un caso de estudio. La flauta mágica de la compañía 1927 y de Kosky: animación 2d, nuevas tecnologías di…
2017
La ópera, un género que a menudo se asocia al pasado, está más viva que nunca. Gracias a la aportación de directores y experimentadores provenientes del teatro, la ópera se ha convertido en uno de los campos por excelencia para la experimentación contemporánea, sobre todo en relación con el uso de nuevas tecnologías. Una verdadera paradoja. Un ejemplo es la puesta en escena de La flauta mágica de Mozart de la Komische Oper de Berlín, concebida y realizada por la compañía británica 1927 y por el director australiano Barrie Kosky en 2012. Es una representación atípica y extraña que utiliza las nuevas tecnologías del “video project mapping” y, al mismo tiempo, las técnicas de animación 2D —dib…
Desanimado, un corto de Emilio Martí López
2012
<p><em>Desanimado</em> es un cortometraje de 7 minutos, realizado durante 2010 y 2011, que reflexiona con tono cómico sobre la diferencia, apoyándose en el subtexto de la diversidad sexual, y sobre el propio medio animado. Además, está realizado en la Universitat Politècnica, pues su autor, Emilio Martí López, ideó el cortometraje mientras cursaba el Máster en Producción Artística, tutorizado por el profesor Miquel Guillem. En este artículo, escrito por alguien muy cercano al director, destacamos sus características principales, y algunos puntos clave de su exitosa trayectoria una vez que ha empezado a rodar por festivales y certámenes bien variados.</p>
El carnaval de los animales: Animar (el sexo) en pareja. Una revisión del imaginario sexual a partir del humor irreverente
2012
<p>Ahora que el Movimiento Feminista ya está mucho más asumido en la sociedad y las mujeres se van apropiando del medio animado como autoras, se están empezando a mostrar otras visiones que hacen burla de los arquetipos, reinventando lo que se cuenta y cómo se cuenta. <em>El carnaval de los animales </em>(Michaela Pavlátová, 2006) es una muestra de esta nueva dinámica en la que se reivindica el deseo sexual de manera divertida e irreverente. Es un <em>contradiscurso </em>además realizado en pareja, pues su marido Vratislav Hlavatý, ilustrador de exquisito humor obsceno, participó en esta producción animada. De esta manera, no tratamos de apuntar que la mujer po…
La figurazione dello spazio architettonico di Gaspare De Fiore
2017
Dal 1967, anno in cui Gaspare De Fiore pubblicò La figurazione dello spazio architettonico, ad oggi sono trascorsi esattamente 50 anni, eppure l’opera conserva la medesima fresca attualità che fu possibile rilevare leggendola per la prima volta durante gli anni della nostra formazione. Nell’affrontare il problema dello spazio architettonico De Fiore distingue tra la sua ideazione e la sua rappresentazione, segnatamente affrontando il secondo argomento da molteplici punti di vista e lungo un arco temporale che abbraccia l’intera storia dell’uomo, dalla pittura preclassica all’arte contemporanea, passando attraverso la rappresentazione dell’architettura in epoca romana, le dinamiche concettua…
Immagini? Transdisciplinarità del Disegno.
2018
La disciplina del Disegno affronta, da sempre, innumerevoli questioni che riguardano vasti ambiti del sapere; la rappresentazione nei suoi aspetti meramente scientifici, la storia della disciplina stessa, l’ambiente costruito/naturale o prefigurato e, più in generale, i Beni Culturali, le nuove e sempre più avanzate tecnologie digitali e, in ultimo, gli aspetti della cultura visuale. Da qualche tempo gli studiosi del Disegno hanno richiesto opinioni, contributi, “punti di vista” ad altri studiosi che, pur non apparte- nendo allo specifico settore scientifico disciplinare del Disegno, incrementano il sapere su temi e questioni che il Disegno pone. The discipline of Drawing has always dealt w…
Design and Culture of the Territory: Ecomuseo del Grano e del Pane in the Salemi Museum System
2019
The article deals with design experimentation in the complex and composite field of design for the culture of the territory, aimed at enhancing the particular resources common to the Mediterranean areas, through an incremental and collaborative design methodology. The town of Salemi (TP) inherited an extraordinary concentration of cultural heritage from its history; in particular the preparation and display of the decorated breads for the Festivity of San Giuseppe, occurring on March 19th, which expresses a profound religiosity and a complex rituality, shared, handed down and recognized as an intan- gible cultural asset to be protected. In this territorial context, a vision aimed at encour-…
Implementering av PICC-line – en kvalitativ studie av anestesisykepleieres erfaringer
2019
PICC-line, a peripherally inserted central venous catheter has been implemented by several Norwegian hospitals in recent years. Nurse Anesthetists play an important role in this process, and have been given new tasks as a result of PICC-line implementation. This study aimed to describe Nurse Anesthetists’ experiences with implementation of PICC-line in hospital. A qualitative design, the data are based on three focus groups interviews with fifteen nurse anesthetists. The interviews were analyzed using a hermeneutic approach. Being a PICC-line nurse led to a feeling of competence, independence, motivation and meaningfulness. The implementation required good structure and organization, as wel…