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The author assumes that the curiosity is a type of human expression. It can manifest in various languages and people’s behaviors, e.g.: verbal, mimic, gestural, costume and also by props, hairstyles, makeup etc. Regardless of differences between particular manifestations of the curiosity it is always semiotic. Freaks, eccentrics and weirdos disturb human community’s order and call into question established...
Dissemination of art online is nowadays a global practice adopted by many museums and galleries. While the reasons behind it may be diverse, one of them is to provide access to works of art and art spaces to people with disabilities. The article analyzes the legitimacy of using modern technologies in communication with people with disabilities, and presents examples of solutions implemented in Polish...
Acquiring stories and narratives about past periods is a challenge for cultural heritage preservation. In this context, we present a method to obtain from the web a corpus of texts related to the period of 1945-1975 in Luxembourg. Extracted texts are accompanied by meta-data that facilitate their integration by tier applications. As a use-case, this corpus will be used in a software that aims at helping...
In recent years, the number of foreign tourists who come to fruit picking in Japan is increasing. Japanese fruits are sweet and tasty. Especially strawberry picking is popular. However, there are few sources of information on strawberry picking in Japan, and there are no portal sites and apps. To improve this, we develop the portal smartphone app of strawberry picking that has English version. Information...
State of the art network intrusion detection systems are heavily influenced by signature based techniques for detecting threats which are extracted from raw packet captures and firewall logs. With the recent emergence of cloud computing and big data analytics, supervised machine learning is also being used to detect deviations of the network traffic patterns from already-known normal patterns. Subsequently,...
Social media constitute nowadays one of the most common communication mediums. Millions of users exploit them daily to share information with their community in the network via messages, referred as posts. The massive volume of information shared is extremely diverse and covers a vast spectrum of topics and interests. Automatically identifying the topics of the posts is of particular interest as this...
This paper is based on two main theses. The first one, according to a research of Gustav Fechner, people have sustainable preferences to forms with proportions, close to Golden ratio. The second these is that human perception and aesthetical criteria can be developed and trained. Having mind the fact, that in this moment the lifestyle and especially dynamic presentation and perception of the information...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the results of the integrated implementation into the Nuri curriculum of Internet-based intercultural exchange to shed light on the significance of global education for young children. The subjects in this study were teachers and 52 preschoolers in South Korea. They participated in an intercultural exchange with a teacher each and preschoolers from Puerto Rico,...
The innovative brand “The internet of Me” is a recent research area that highlight the prevalence of personalization across the internet and focuses on the user habits and actions tracked from his interaction with the web content. This paradigm presents an efficient way to define the user experience, preferences useful in e-commerce, marketing, social and search purpose. In this paper we are interested...
Museum libraries came late to the digitization party — primarily because of perceived copyright issues. Since 2010 the three libraries of the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) have embarked on a series of niche, boutique digitization projects, pushing the boundaries of fair use, but they have also embraced the born-digital, establishing a program to capture art-history-rich websites and to...
Nodos is a new project with the main goal to promote and build a comprehensive knowledge base of performing arts, artists, cultural groups & spaces, plays and festivals. The work of recording and preservation this kind of artistic expressions contributes to the preservation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, as has been defined by UNESCO. One of the biggest challenges related to the recording...
Currently, the issues for the time being have become complex and diverse in the region, such as the disappearance of the local government by the super aging population is feared. Therefore from being considered as a tool for problem-solving is ICT to progress rapidly, among the information and communication technology such as IOT(internet of things), CPS(cyber physical system), AI(Artificial intelligence),...
This article aims at presenting and summarizing the main concepts of citizenship, digital citizenship and digital inclusion, within the concept of citizenship construction. The methodological approach is essentially explicative, bibliographical and documental. We begin with a state-of-the art of the topic, which is necessary to prepare the well-documented empirical investigation that will be carried...
Micro-course, as an emerging education model based on the Internet, is a useful supplement to classroom teaching, and also the needs of times development, which can better meet the diverse learning needs of students in the new era. In this paper, with the professional art courses in colleges as the research object, a study is carried out from the application angle, application advantages, integration...
In order to assist the international popularization of Chinese traditional furniture culture, digital technology is introduced into cultural inheritance of traditional furniture. In this paper, it analyzes the database construction hierarchy of Chinese traditional furniture culture, and the digital conversion means, and thus to build modules of digital platform for Chinese traditional furniture culture...
The purpose of this study was to examine the procedure and meaning of creative art curriculum for young children through virtual intercultural exchange. The participants were 5 years old children in Korea, Puerto Rico, Thailand, Africa and teachers. According to the research result, first, the application process was consisted of planning, implementation and assessment. Second, meanings of the creative...
The paper presents an online application that enables to follow citations of own scientific publication resources. The application cooperates with Web of Science database, Scopus, Google Scholar and ResearchGate. Its main aim is to eliminate duplicates of resources and to enable to track own scientific progress. It also enables to prepare BibTeX file of publications for later use in other papers.
Policies of engineering education system, learning styles of most engineering students, and teaching practices of engineering professors are incompatible in several dimensions. These mismatches lead to poor student performance, professorial frustration, and the society looses many potentially talented engineers. Most of the students focus on the results and recruitments. Unfortunately, focus towards...
To support and popularize Science and Technology (ST) to the Macao students and to train their interest are important. Since there were less than 7% of the higher educational students majored in ST in 2013. Therefore, the author, who is a guide of a telecommunication gallery in Macao, also has the duty to increase students' interest in ST. For this purpose, some science workshops, courses and demonstrations...
Clickjacking is an attack that tricks victims into clicking on invisible elements of a web page to perform unin- tended actions that might be advantageous for the attacker. To defend against clickjacking, many techniques have been proposed, but it is still questionable whether they are effectively deployed in practice. We investigated how vulnerable Korean websites are to clickjacking attacks by performing...
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