Connecting Art and Science for Education: Learning through an Advanced Virtual Theater with “Talking Heads”

Adolfo Adamo; Pier Augusto Bertacchini; Eleonora Bilotta; Pietro Pantano; Assunta Tavernise

doi:10.1162/leon_a_00036

Connecting Art and Science for Education: Learning through an Advanced Virtual Theater with “Talking Heads”

Leonardo ◽

10.1162/leon_a_00036 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 43 (5) ◽

pp. 442-448 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Adolfo Adamo ◽

Pier Augusto Bertacchini ◽

Eleonora Bilotta ◽

Pietro Pantano ◽

Assunta Tavernise

Keyword(s):

Emotional Expressions ◽

Educational Goals ◽

Art And Science ◽

Advanced Technologies ◽

Talking Heads ◽

Virtual Theater ◽

Human Actors ◽

Difficult Subjects

The authors present an innovative virtual theater in which the language of performance joins advanced technologies for educational goals. On the stage of this pioneering theatrical environment human actors interact with 3D faces (“talking heads”) on a wide screen. These synthetic characters are endowed with emotional expressions and voices and resemble famous personalities such as Pythagoras and Einstein. The performance aims at the exposition of difficult subjects in various fields and making learning enjoyable and entertaining.

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Slovenian Primary School Teachers' Opinion on Interdisciplinary Approach Between Fine Art and Science Education

European Journal of Educational Research ◽

10.12973/eu-jer.11.1.435 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 435-443

Author(s):

Robert Potočnik ◽

Tanja Košir ◽

Iztok Devetak

Keyword(s):

Science Education ◽

Primary School ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Fine Art ◽

Educational Goals ◽

School Teachers ◽

Art And Science ◽

Primary School Teachers ◽

Teaching Content ◽

Meaningful Connections

<p style="text-align: justify;">In this article we present research on Slovenian primary school teachers' opinion about the interdisciplinary approach between fine art and science education. With the help of questionnaires, interviews, and analysis of lesson plans, we determined how primary school teachers use this type of interdisciplinary approach, how often and what their views are. We included 138 primary school teachers from every region in Slovenia. It turned out that primary school teachers in Slovenia use an interdisciplinary approach between fine art and science teaching quite often and consider it useful to achieve different aspects of pupils' development. The study revealed that most teachers find it difficult to consider the educational goals of both fields (fine art, science). They often use the connection between the subjects only on an associative level - they only mention the teaching content of one subject quickly and carelessly, without making meaningful connections and without achieving the goals of both subjects. Content taught in this way cannot be considered a cross-curricular approach in the subject sense.</p>

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Technoscientific Operations of Statehood: The Media Monopoly

10.33767/osf.io/m9vc7 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Jens Schröter

Keyword(s):

Point Clouds ◽

The State ◽

The Body ◽

Advanced Technologies ◽

The Media ◽

Human Actors

How is the relation of the so-called individual to the state materialized? Normally in an IDCardor something similar. The ID-Card is the technical relay between the body and theabstract orders of addresses that define the citoyen. To ensure the functionality of the state IDCardsare highly protected – as is money. ID-Cards and money are often very advanced andcomplex technoscientific and medial objects. They use very advanced technologies likeholography, kinegrams, unreproducible color schemes, point-clouds etc. The paper describesthe historical emergence of socio-technical arrangements to protect the medial form of thestate. It thereby becomes visible that all modern, even the most democratic, states have a‘media monopoly’ (of protected documents) that is co-constitutive with its monopoly onpower. The ‘media monopoly’ is under constant threat by new technological and socialdevelopments and is constantly defended. And in this process, interestingly enough, newtechnologies are seen as the non-human actors that threaten the state.

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The Museum Maze in Oral Pathology Demystified—Part I

The Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice ◽

10.5005/jp-journals-10024-1401 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 770-776

Author(s):

BS Ganavi

Keyword(s):

Oral Pathology ◽

Student Population ◽

Visitor Experience ◽

Art And Science ◽

Advanced Technologies ◽

Recent Advances ◽

Hands On ◽

Museum Technology

ABSTRACT Museum technologies provide a wide array of choice of museums to those who wish to exploit technology to attract, excite and ensure an unrivalled visitor experience, as well as capture and sustain share of mind and heart. Museum being a combination of both art and science requires skilled workmanship, meticulous planning and execution to exhibit a specimen to its optimal elegance due to its relatively smaller size and fragile nature. A well established oral pathology museum is rarely seen due to negligence of oral specimens, dearth of knowledge in this field and also available data on it. An insight on oral pathology museum, including its establishment, importance and advanced technologies to make it more simple and accessible are discussed in two parts. Part I emphasizes on basics in oral pathology museum, whereas part II highlights the specialized techniques and recent advances in museum technology. Our effort is to present this article as hands on experience for the pathologists, student population and the technicians. How to cite this article Patil S, Rao RS, Ganavi BS. The Museum Maze in Oral Pathology Demystified—Part I. J Contemp Dent Pract 2013;14(4):770-776.

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Estimating the Valence of Single Stimuli: A New Variant of the Affective Simon Task

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1026//1618-3169.50.2.86 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 86-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Andreas Voß ◽

Klaus Rothermund ◽

Dirk Wentura

Keyword(s):

Simon Task ◽

Emotional Expressions ◽

Evaluation Task ◽

New Variant ◽

Game Context

Abstract. In this article, a modified variant of the Affective Simon Task (AST; De Houwer & Eelen, 1998 ) is presented as a measure of implicit evaluations of single stimuli. In the AST, the words “good” or “bad” have to be given as responses depending on the color of the stimuli. The AST was combined with an evaluation task to increase the salience of the valence of the presented stimuli. Experiment 1 investigated evaluations of schematic faces showing emotional expressions. In Experiment 2 we measured the valence of artificial stimuli that acquired valence in a game context during the experiment. Both experiments confirm the validity of the modified AST. The results also revealed a dissociation between explicit and implicit evaluations.

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