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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS —

exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation 3

Conference Topics 4

Sponsors 6

Committees 8

Paper Reviewers 13

Message from the Chairmen 16

General Information 17

Program Sessions 20

Invited Speakers 28

Abstracts 32

Program Overview 97

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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation The Conference

THE 3RD EXPERIMENT@INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE — The Experiment@International Conference 2015 (exp.at'15) is the 3rd event of a conference series which was started at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, in November 2011, followed by the second one hosted by University of Coimbra in September 2013 (http://www.fe.up.pt/exp.at2015).

exp.at'15 is held at University of Azores (Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal) and it is a joint organisation of the University of Porto and the University of Coimbra with the collaboration of the University of Azores and with the technical support of IEEE.

exp.at'15 continues the biannual event series dedicated to online experimentation, contributing to extend the world capabilities in this particular area and to develop collaborative work in emergent technologies, bringing together engineers, researchers and professionals from different areas.

exp.at'15 aims to promote Online Experimentation (OE) which comprises remote and virtual experimentation as identifiable and accessible objects and their virtual representations in the Internet of Things structure. OE is aided by emergent technologies as those supporting remote experiments, 2D or 3D virtual experiments, augmented reality experiments and their interaction with sensorial devices, live videos and other tools, such as interactive videos and serious games, which promote user immersion in virtual environments recreating the real experience.

exp.at’15 provides a three-day (plus pre- and post-conference days) forum of discussion and collaboration between academics, researchers, web designers, K-12 teachers and industry, trying to bridge the gap between academic applications and results as well as real world needs and experiences. It offers to the participants an opportunity to present their recent work and experience reports, and to take part in open discussions, technical sessions, workshops, exhibition sessions, discussion tables and thematic visits in a singular and beautiful region. 

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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation Conference Topics

CONFERENCE TOPICS — • Online Experimentation • Remote Monitoring • Remote Sensing • Remote & Virtual Labs • Online Learning Systems • Serious Games • Haptic Interfaces • Augmented Reality • Virtual Reality • Collaborative Tools • Intelligent Learning Systems • Intelligent Systems • Intelligent Web-based Learning • Web Design • Mobile Computing • Communication Systems • Distance Monitoring of:

• Civil and Mechanical Structures • Structural Health • Marine Research • Volcanology and Seismology • Climatology • Bioengineering

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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation Conference Topics

SPECIAL TRACK OEEE’15 TOPICS “ONLINE EXPERIMENTATION IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION” — • Remote, Virtual, On-Site, Augmented, Smart and Hybrid Laboratory

Experience • Innovative Technologies and Infrastructures for Online Learning with

Labs • Novel Methods, Practices, and Approaches for Laboratory Teaching &

Learning • Developing Knowledge, Skills and Competencies in Engineering

Laboratories • Learning Objectives, Activities and Assessments for Lab Work • Future Capabilities and Constraints of Labs in Engineering Education • Horizontal Issues, Emergent Technologies, Future Impacts  

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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation The Sponsors

MAIN SPONSORS

SPONSORS

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TECHNICAL SPONSORS

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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation Committees

COMMITTEES

Honorary Committee

Fernando Boavida Fernandes Director of CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal

João Gabriel Silva Rector of the University of Coimbra, Portugal

João Luís Gaspar Rector of the University of the Azores, Portugal

Manuel Castro Jr. Past President of IEEE Ed. Soc., Spain

Michael Auer President of IGIP, Austria

Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo Rector of the University of Porto, Portugal

Steering Committee Alberto Cardoso University of Coimbra, Portugal

Maria Teresa Restivo University of Porto, Portugal

Michael Auer Carinthia University, Austria

General Chairs Alberto Cardoso University of Coimbra, Portugal

Maria Teresa Restivo University of Porto, Portugal

Program Chairs Gustavo Alves Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Hélia Guerra University of the Azores, Portugal

Luís Mendes Gomes University of the Azores, Portugal

Manuel Castro UNED, Spain

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Scientific Committee

A. Augusto Sousa, PT Inmaculada Plaza, ES

Alexander Kist, AU James Uhomoibhi, UK

Alexander Zimin, RU James Wolfer, USA

Andreja Rojko, SL Javier Garcia-Zubia, ES

Ana Pavani, BR João Bosco, BR

Andreas Pester, AT José Sanchez Moreno, ES

Anna Friesel, DK Juarez Silva, BR

Antonella Longo, IT Katarina Zakova, SK

António Mendes Lopes, PT Konstantinos Katzis, CY

Armando Preciado Babb, CA Manuel Castro, ES

Carlos Vaz de Carvalho, PT Mário Alves, PT

Christos Dimopoulos, CY Mario Bochicchio, IT

Claudius Terkowsky, DE Mark Schulz, AU

Cornel Samoila, RO Martín Llamas, ES

David Boehringer, DE Mikulas Huba, SK

David Lowe, AU Mohammed Serrhini, MA

Denis Gillet, CH Paulo Menezes, PT

Doru Ursutiu, RO Paulo Abreu, PT

Dragan Seskija, RS Radojka Krneta, RS

Edmundo Tovar, ES Roderval Marcelino, BR

Franz Schauer, CZ Russ Meier, USA

Graça Rasteiro, PT Thomas Richter, DE

Gudrun Klinker, DE Vilson Gruber, BR

Horácio Fernandes, PT Xia Pingjun, CN

Igor Titov, RU Željko Đurović, RS

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Ingvar Gustavsson, SE Zorica Nedic, AU

Program Committee Amélia Loja, PT Katharina Schuster, DE

André Fidalgo, PT Lígia Ribeiro, PT

Andrey Shumov, RU Liliane Machado, BR

Arcelina Marques, PT Luís Brito Palma, PT

Augusto Chioccariello, IT Luis Schlichting, BR

Bogdan Deaky, RO Lukáš Tkáč, SK

Caldas Pinto, PT Maggi Savin-Baden, UK

Carlos Eduardo Pereira, BR Manuel Felgueiras, PT

Celina Pinto Leão, PT Manuel R. Quintas, PT

César Teixeira, PT Marjan Milošević, RS

Christian Kreiter, AT Michael Callaghan, UK

Danijela Milosevic, RS Monika Radtke, DE

Danilo Garbi Zutin, AT Nergiz Ercil Cagiltay, TR

Diana Urbano, PT Olga Dziabenko, ES

Dominik May, DE Onime Clement, IT

Ebba Ossialnilsson, SE Pablo Orduña, ES

Erik de Graaff, DK Paulo Gil, PT

Euan Lindsay, AU Raija Tuohi, FI

Fernão Magalhães, PT Raivo Sell, EE

Filomena Soares, PT Reinhard Langmann, DE

Gustavo Alves, PT Renato Natal Jorge, BR

H. Saliah-Hassane, CA Ronei Moraes, BR

Heinz-Dietrich Wuttke, DE Salaheddin Odeh, PS

Jerzy Moscinski, PL Slobodan Dudic, RS

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João Mota Neto, BR Sonia Concari, AR

Joaquim Gabriel, PT Susan Zvacek, USA

José Carlos Quadrado, PT Susana Marchisío, AR

José Carlos Teixeira, PT Tarek M. Sobh, USA

José Manuel Fonseca, PT Tiia Ruutmann, EE

Karsten Henke, DE Vasco Trigo, PT

Program Committee of Special Track OEEE’15

A. Erman Tekkaya, DE Janusz Zalewski, USA

Abul Azad, USA Javier Garcia Zubia, ES

André Fidalgo, PT Juarez Bento da Silva, BR

Anette Kolmos, DK Katarina Zakova, SK

Anja Richert, DE Katharina Schuster, DE

Arcelina Marques, PT Lyle Feisel, USA

Augusto Chioccariello, IT Maggi Savin-Baden, UK

Carlos Eduardo Pereira, BR Manfred Faßler, DE

Christian Pleul, DE Marcus Petermann, DE

Clara Viegas, PT Michael Callaghan, UK

David Lowe, AU Monika Radtke, DE

Dominik May, DE Olga Dziabenko, ES

Erik de Graaff, DK Pablo Orduña, ES

Euan Lindsay, AU Sabina Jeschke, DE

Gustavo R. Alves, PT Thomas Richter, DE

H. Saliah-Hassane, CA Thorsten Jungmann, DE

Heinz-Dietrich Wuttke, DE Tobias Haertel, DE

Ingvar Gustavsson, SE Tobias Ortelt, DE

Isa Jahnke, SE Uwe Wilkesmann, DE

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Jan Vanvinkenroye, DE Willian Rochadel, BR

Publication Committee

Andres A. Nogueiras Melendez University of Vigo, Spain

António Augusto de Sousa University of Porto, Portugal

José Couto Marques University of Porto, Portugal

Luís Gomes New University of Lisbon, Portugal

International Liaison Chairs

Anna Friesel Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

James Uhomoibhi University of Ulster, United Kingdom

José Carlos Quadrado Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal

Radojka Krneta University of Kragujevac, Republic of Serbia

exp.at'15 Exhibition (Demo) Session Chairs

Alexander Zimin Bauman Moscow S. T. Univ, Russia

Danilo Zutin Carinthia University, Austria

Horácio Fernandes Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal

exp.at'15 Special Track OEEE’15 “Online Experimentation in Science and Engineering Education” Chairs

Claudius Terkowsky Technical University of Dortmund, Germany

David Boehringer University of Stuttgart, Germany

Local Organization Chairs

Fátima Chouzal, PT

Tiago Andrade, PT

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Technical Local Organization Chairs

Bruno Mendes, PT

Eduarda Mesquita, PT

Elisabete Freire, PT

Joana Restivo, PT

José Rodrigues, PT

Vítor Sousa, PT

Paper Reviewers A. Augusto Sousa, PT João Santinha, PT

Alberto Cardoso, PT Joaquim Gabriel, PT

Alexander Kist, AU José Carlos Teixeira, PT

Alexander Zimin, RU José Manuel Fonseca, PT

Amélia Loja, PT José Sanchez Moreno, ES

Ana Pavani, BR Juarez Silva, BR

André Fidalgo, PT Karsten Henke, DE

Andreas Pester, AT Katarina Zakova, SK

Andreja Rojko, SI Katharina Schuster, DE

Andrey Shumov, RU Konstantinos Katzis, CY

Anna Friesel, DK Liliane Machado, BR

Antonella Longo, IT Luís Brito Palma, PT

António Mendes Lopes, PT Luis Schlichting, BR

Arcelina Marques, PT Lukas Tkac, SK

Armando Preciado Babb, CA Maggi Savin-Baden, UK

Bogdan Deaky, RO Manuel Castro, ES

Carlos Vaz de Carvalho, PT Manuel Felgueiras, PT

Celina Pinto Leão, PT Maria Teresa Restivo, PT

César Teixeira, PT Mário Alves, PT

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Christian Kreiter, AT Mario Bochicchio, IT

Christos Dimopoulos, CY Marjan Milosevic, RS

Claudius Terkowsky, DE Mark Schulz, AU

Cornel Samoila, RO Martin Llamas, ES

Danijela Milosevic, RS Michael Callaghan, UK

Danilo Garbi Zutin, AT Mohammed Serrhini, MA

David Boehringer, DE Monika Radtke, DE

David Lowe, AU Nergiz Ercil Cagiltay, TR

Denis Gillet, CH Olga Dziabenko, ES

Diana Urbano, PT Onime Clement, IT

Dominik May, DE Pablo Orduña, ES

Doru Ursutiu, RO Paulo Abreu, PT

Dragan Seslija, RS Paulo Gil, PT

Ebba Ossialnilsson, SE Paulo Menezes, PT

Erik de Graaff, DK Radojka Krneta, RS

Euan Lindsay, AU Reinhard Langmann, DE

Fernão Magalhães, PT Renato Natal Jorge, PT

Filomena Soares, PT Roderval Marcelino, BR

Graça Rasteiro, PT Ronei Moraes, BR

Gudrun Klinker, DE Salaheddin Odeh, PS

Gustavo Alves, PT Sonia Concari, AR

H. Saliah-Hassane, CA Susan Zvacek, USA

Heinz-Dietrich Wuttke, DE Susana Marchisío, AR

Horácio Fernandes, PT Tarek M. Sobh, USA

Igor Titov, RU Thomas Richter, DE

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Ingvar Gustavsson, SE Vilson Gruber, BR

Inmaculada Plaza, ES Willian Rochadel, BR

James Uhomoibhi, UK Xia Pingjun, CN

James Wolfer, USA Zeljko Durovic, RS

Javier Garcia Zubia, ES Zorica Nedic, AU

Jerzy Moscinski, PL

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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation Message from the Chairmen

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMEN — Welcome to the 3rd Experiment@ International Conference (exp.at’15) at University of the Azores, June 2-4, 2015, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Portugal.

exp.at’15 is a biannual event devoted to online experimentation, also exploring innovative technologies, as virtual reality, augmented reality, serious games and sensorial devices.

Its evocative name, Experiment@, is adequate to turn it into an itinerant forum to foster the expansion and association of online experimentation in order to enlarge the world capabilities in this particular area, contributing to collaborative work in emergent technologies.

Online experimentation comprises remote and virtual experimentation aided by virtual reality components, augmented reality, sensorial devices, live videos and other tools as interactive videos and serious games which promote user immersion in virtual environments recreating the real experience.

exp.at’15 will provide a three-day (with additional pre- and a post-conference days) forum of discussion and collaboration between academics, researchers, STEM and industry, highlighting engineering and medical applications as well as industrial training and lifelong learning.

The island environment is the ideal venue for a conference in online experimentation.

Enjoy exp.at’15!

Alberto Cardoso Maria Teresa Restivo 

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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation General Information

GENERAL INFORMATION — exp.at’15 conference will take place on the campus of Ponta Delgada Campus of the University of the Azores, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal.

The university campus is located at a convenient distance from hotels, restaurants and diverse cultural sites. Being close to the center of Ponta Delgada, University of the Azores is within walking distance of any location in town and only about 10 minutes by taxi from the airport.

The best way to get to the Azores is by plane. There are daily flights leaving from Lisbon and Porto to the Azores and also from other European cities (for example: Munich, Frankfurt, Paris, London and Amsterdam). It is also possible to fly directly from Canada (for example: Toronto) and USA (for example: Boston) to the Azores. Within Azores archipelago, it is possible to travel by boat or by plane.

Situated in the middle of the Atlantic, off the coast of Europe, the nine islands of the Azores is home to a variety of landscapes and spectacular volcanic scenery. Discovered by the Portuguese in 1427, these islands became one of the axes of navigation between Europe, Asia, and America during the 16th and 17th centuries. Christopher Columbus, returning from his momentous 1492 voyage to the New World, first stopped in the island of Santa Maria before reaching mainland Europe in Lisbon. The name Azores was given by Gonçalo Velho Cabral who, with Diogo Silves, landed in Santa Maria in 1427. They mistook the many buzzards there for hawks, which are called "açores" in Portuguese.

São Miguel is the largest of the nine islands, known for an enchanting natural wonder, the “Sete Cidades” twin lakes. In the sunlight, one lake is blue and the other is green, best seen from a vantage point called "Vista do Rei" south of the crater. Another curiosity in the island is the food prepared in hot volcanic rock. A favorite dish is "Cozido das Furnas", in which meat and vegetables are stewed in pits in the heat of the volcanic earth. “Furnas” itself is a popular whitewashed town with hot springs used in the treatment of respiratory ailments and rheumatism. Nearby is the beautiful “Parque

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Terra Nostra”, a garden with a remarkable collection of trees and plants, as well as an odd swimming pool with warm yellow water.

Ponta Delgada, in São Miguel, is the capital of the entire archipelago of Azores and the tourist heart of the island. Its arcades and 18th century city gates, fine baroque churches, and volcanic cones rising on distant hills are its main sights. To the north of the city gates stands the Church of São Sebastião, founded in 1533 with a fine Manueline portal intricately carved in limestone. The sacristy is decorated with tile panels and 17th century furniture.

In the center of the island is a majestically beautiful spot, “Lagoa do Fogo”, a crater lake formed by a volcanic eruption in the 16th century. An activity that takes place in São Miguel that doesn't happen anywhere else in Europe is tea production, and you may visit the Gorreana Tea Factory and Plantation.

Some useful links with Information about Azores

• Official Tourism Website of Azores (http://www.visitazores.com/en) • Discover Azores (http://www.azores.com/) • Destinazores (http://www.destinazores.com/en/) • Azores Government (http://www.azores.gov.pt/Portal/en/)

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① – Univ. of the Azores, Ponta Delgada (Atrium, Aud. N., Aud. S., A. M., CVARG Lab, Expos., Park N.) ② – Lagoa das Sete Cidades ③ – Lagoa do Fogo ④ – Ribeira Grande (Rib. Theater, Rib. G. Atrium) ⑤ – Lagoa das Furnas ⑥ – Furnas

① – Univ. of the Azores, Ponta Delgada (Atrium, Aud. N., Aud. S., A. M., CVARG Lab, Expos., Park N.) ② – LREC (Room2, Aud.) ③ – Câmara Municipal de Ponta Delgada (CMPD) ④ – Coliseu Micaelense

Registration Desk Contacts Alberto Cardoso, [email protected] Maria Teresa Restivo, [email protected]  

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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation Program Sessions

PROGRAM SESSIONS —

Monday, June 1, 2015 (Pre-Conference)

Mon1A – Parallel Activity Go-Lab Project Workshop

(LREC, Room 2) 10:30 - 12:30

Mon1B - Parallel Activity NeReLa Tempus Project Workshop

(UAc, Aud. N.) 10:30 - 12:30

Registration (UAc, Atrium) 13:00 - 17:00

Mon2A – Parallel Activity Visits to the Laboratory of CVARG/CIVISA

(CVARG, Lab) 13:30 - 17:00

Mon2B – Parallel Activity Remote Labs Project Meeting (IEEE Standardization committee P1876)

(LREC, Room 2) 13:30 - 15:00

Mon2C – Parallel Activity VISIR Project Workshop

(UAc, Aud. N.) 13:30 - 15:00

Mon2D – Parallel Activity Chairs: Diana Urbano and Hélia Guerra

Workshop “Using Online Experimentation in Education” (Susan Zvacek, USA)

(UAc, Aud. S.) 15:30 - 17:00

Departure to the Social Programme Activity

Visit to Sete Cidades and Welcome Dinner

(UAc, Park N.) 17:00

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015 (Conference)


Tue1 - Opening Session João Luís Gaspar, Rector of University of the Azores Fausto Brito e Abreu, Regional Secretary for the Sea, Science and Technology José Manuel Bolieiro, Mayor of Ponta Delgada Maria Teresa Restivo, exp.at’15 General Chair, University of Porto Alberto Cardoso, exp.at’15 General Chair, University of Coimbra

(UAc, A. M.) 09:00 - 09:40

Tue2 - Plenary Session Chairs: Gabriela Queiroz and Teresa Ferreira

“From Local Natural Events to Global Catastrophes: New challenges for risk mitigation” Keynote Speaker: João Luís Gaspar (Rector of the University of the Azores, PT)

(UAc, A. M.) 09:40 - 10:30

Coffee break (UAc, Atrium) 10:30 - 11:00

Tue3A - Parallel Session Chairs: Paulo Menezes and Jorge Henriques

Medical Applications I Papers:#29, #62, #77

(UAc, Aud. N.) 11:00 - 12:30

Tue3B - Parallel Session Chairs: Paulo Abreu and Aleksandar Peulic

Online Experimentation in Automation Papers: #07, #23, #35, #89

(UAc, Aud. S.) 11:00 - 12:30

Lunch break (UAc, Atrium) 12:30 - 14:00

Tue4A - Parallel Session Chairs: Zorica Nedic and Rui Calçada

Remote Monitoring Papers: #08, #40, #83, #93, #101

(UAc, Aud. N.) 14:00 - 15:45

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Tue4B - Parallel OEEE'15 Special Track Chairs: Claudius Terkowsky and David Boehringer

Online Experimentation in Science and Engineering Education I Papers: #01, #52, #63, #70

(UAc, Aud. S.) 14:00 - 15:45


Move to LREC (Laboratório Regional de Engenharia Civil) 16:15 - 16:30

Tue5 - Plenary Session Chairs: José C. Marques and Mikulas Huba

Online Experimentation as a Tool for Research Elsa Caetano, UP, #108 Rui Calçada, UP, #109 Ed. Azevedo, UAc, #115 Miguel Motos, Ingevideo Doru Ursutiu, IAOE Manuel Castro, IEEE Edu Soc.

(LREC, Aud.) 16:30 - 18:30

Welcome Reception at City Hall of Ponta Delgada with “Pico de Honra”

(CMPD) 19:00

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015 (Conference)


Wed1-Exhibition Session (Demos) Chairs: Alexander Zimin, Danilo Zutin and Horácio Fernandes

Applications and Contributions in Online Experimentation I Demos: #02, #06, #10, #13, #14, #15, #19, #25, #28, #30, #36, #37, #42, #50, #65, #71, #74, #98, #111, #112, #113

(UAc, Expos.) 09:00 - 10:30


Wed2-Exhibition Session (Demos) Chairs: Alexander Zimin, Danilo Zutin and Horácio Fernandes

Applications and Contributions in Online Experimentation II Demos: #12, #26, #27, #33, #51, #55, #57, #75, #76, #79, #82, #84, #87, #88, #99, #100, #102, #104, #105

(UAc, Expos.) 11:00 - 12:30

Departure to Ribeira Grande (including Lunch and view of Lagoa do Fogo)

(UAc, Park N.) 12:30

Wed3-Plenary Session Chairs: Mark Schulz and Gustavo Alves

"Know-How and Know-Why: Lab-Created Learning” Keynote Speaker: Susan Zvacek (USA)

Ribeira Grande (Rib. Theater)

15:00 - 15:50

Coffee break (Rib. T. Atrium)

15:50 - 16:20

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Wed4-Plenary Session Chairs: Elsa Caetano and Javier Garcia-Zubia

Online Experimentation as a Tool for Research and Education Mário Pinho, UAc, #114 Ed. Ferreira, ATSEP, #56 Nuno Guarda, CISCO Denis Gillet, Go-Lab Radojka Krneta, NeReLa Anna Friesel, PELARS Mario Bochicchio, EDOC

Ribeira Grande (Rib. Theater)

16:20 - 18:20

Social Programme Activity (visit to Ribeira Grande)

(Rib.G.) 18:30

Reception at ”Museu do Franciscanismo” with “Maracujá de Honra”

(Rib. G.) 19:30

Return to Ponta Delgada (Rib. G.) 20:30

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Thursday, June 4, 2015 (Conference)


Thu1A - Parallel Session Chairs: Katarina Zakova and Heinz-Dietrich Wuttke

Solutions for Remote and Virtual Laboratories Papers: #18, #20, #34, #69, #73

(UAc, Aud. N.) 08:45 - 10:30

Thu1B - Parallel Activity Chairs: Radojka Krneta and Ricardo Vardasca

Workshop “Developing and Deploying LabVIEW-based Remote Lab on Labicom Platform: steps, tools and skills”, Igor Titov, Labicom LCC

(UAc, Aud. S.) 08:45 - 10:30


Thu2A - Parallel Session Chairs: Susan Zvacek and Diana Urbano

Collaborative Resources and Gamification for Educational Purposes Papers: #92, #94, #80, #106

(UAc, Aud. N.) 11:00 - 12:30

Thu2B - Parallel OEEE'15 Special Track Chairs: David Boehringer and Claudius Terkowsky

Online Experimentation in Science and Engineering Education II Papers: #16, #67, #78, #90

(UAc, Aud. S.) 11:00 - 12:30

Lunch break (UAc, Atrium) 12:30 - 14:00

Thu3 - Plenary Session Chairs: Denis Gillet and Doru Ursutiu

"Living and Working with the Internet of Things” Keynote Speaker: Mark Schulz (AU)

(UAc, Aud. N.) 14:00 - 14:50

Thu4A - Parallel Session Chairs: Andreja Rojko and Anna Friesel

Remote Experimentation Papers: #31, #49, #53, #58

(UAc, Aud. N.) 15:00 - 16:30

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Thu4B - Parallel Session Chairs: Mario Bochicchio and Christian Gütl

OE Applications for Education I Papers: #45, #60, #86, #96

(UAc, Aud. S.) 15:00 - 16:30


Thu5A - Parallel Session Chairs: James Wolfer and Luciano Andreatta

Medical Applications II Papers: #09, #38, #47, #97

(UAc, Aud. N.) 17:00 - 18:30

Thu5B - Parallel Session Chairs: Alexander Kist and Amélia Loja

OE Applications for Education II Papers: #44, #48, #68, #81

(UAc, Aud. S.) 17:00 - 18:30

Thu6 - Closing Session Luís Mendes Gomes, Pro-Rector of UAc Manuel Castro, IEEE Ed. Soc. Alberto Cardoso, exp.at’15 General Chair, UC Maria Teresa Restivo, exp.at’15 General Chair, UP

(UAc, Aud. N.) 18:30 - 19:00

Gala Dinner and Awards (Coliseu) 19:30

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Friday, June 5, 2015 (Post-Conference)

Departure from Ponta Delgada (UAc, Park N.) 08:30

Fri1 – Technical Visit I Visit to the “Central geotérmica da Lagoa do Fogo”

Tea break at Fábrica do Chá da Gorreana

Fri2 – Technical Visit II Visit to the remote monitoring system of natural phenomena of volcanology and geothermal energy

Visit to "Parque Terra Nostra" at Furnas (optional)

Lunch break at Furnas 14:00 - 16:00

Fri3 – Technical Visit III Visit to geothermal systems at Caldeiras-Furnas

Return to Ponta Delgada 18:00

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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation Invited Speakers

INVITED SPEAKERS —

João Luís Gaspar is Associate Professor with Aggregation from the Geosciences Department of the University of the Azores and researcher in the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment. He has a doctorate in Volcanology, from the University of the Azores, and a graduation in Geology, from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He was elected Rector of the University of the Azores in February 2014, a position he currently holds. He was Director of the Geosciences Department of the University of the Azores and Director of the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment, a research unit aimed at the development of science and technology in the domain of Volcanology and related fields, in order to understand the volcanological phenomena and to assess the risks directly or indirectly associated. He was, as well, Executive Director of the Centre for Information and Seismovolcanic Surveillance of the Azores (CIVISA) and is currently the coordinator of its unit for Crisis Management and Response Mechanisms to Emergency Situations, which advises the Civil Protection Agency in the Azores. In this context, he has dealt with various crisis situations related to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, degassing processes, landslides and floods, in the Azores, in Portugal and overseas. Between 2004 and 2008 he occupied the positions of Regional Director for Science and Technology in the 9th Regional Government of the Azores and of President of the Regional Science and Technology Fund. He was then responsible for the technological infrastructure and the communication and data system of the Regional Government of the Azores. He also created the Regional Scientific and Technological System, launched the first Integrated Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation, chaired the Installation Committee for the Azorean Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, and designed the project for the construction of the Technological Park of S. Miguel, meant to foster companies that work in the fields of Information, Communication and Monitoring Technologies. In 2001 he was awarded the degree of Commendator of the Order of Merit by the President of the Portuguese Republic for his work in geological risk assessment and civil protection advice. In that same year he received Praise from the Institute of Meteorology. In 2011 he received the SIG Personality of the Year award, granted by ESRI Portugal for his role in the development of projects based on geographic information systems in the fields of volcanology, seismology, civil protection, land use planning and water resources.

“From Local Natural Events to Global Catastrophes: New

challenges for risk mitigation” The Azores archipelago is located in the North Atlantic Ocean and is formed by nine volcanic islands and a few islets dispersed along a 600 km NW-SE direction axis. Due

Professor João Luís Gaspar University of Azores, Portugal

Tuesday, 2 June, 2015 Tue2 – Plenary Session 09:40 - 10:30

(UAc Aula Magna)

Chairs: Gabriela Queiroz and Teresa Ferreira

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to their geodynamic and meteorological context, the islands are exposed to different natural hazards that were already responsible for thousands of deaths and severe damages. The main natural hazards which occur at the Azores are described and a brief reference is made to the nature, intensity and magnitude of major historical events, considering its importance for risk evaluation, land use and emergency planning. Geological phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, degassing processes and landslides, and extreme meteorological events frequently occur associated at different scales in time and space implying a multi-hazard analysis. Using independent monitoring techniques scientists try to understand the source parameters and the trigger conditions that precede such events to establish and develop alert and warning systems for civil protection actions. The Azores University, through the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment (CVARG) and the Centre for Information and Seismovolcanic Surveillance of the Azores (CIVISA), is the scientific advisory of the civil protection regional and local authorities for geological risk evaluation and seismovolcanic monitoring, respectively. In this scope the CVARG/CIVISA assures the implementation, development and maintenance of a multiparametric monitoring program for the Azorean region based on geophysical, geodetic, geochemical and meteorological continuous real-time data acquisition networks and discrete data sampling campaigns. This implies the daily collection of a huge amount of data whose storage, treatment, interpretation, visualization and publication pose particular problems due to the short-term response needed for decision making. Recent events all over the world have shown that even a well localized phenomenon can have a social and economic impact that goes far beyond the area where it occurs. Moreover, the Earth´s History shows that under certain geological conditions natural events can occur at a global scale causing dramatic environmental changes with direct impact on life. Such observations imply that risk mitigation needs to move to a larger scale involving the definition and acquisition of general critical information, widespread metadata, higher storage capability and faster data processing systems. — 

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Susan Zvacek is Associate Provost for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Denver, where she oversees the Office of Teaching and Learning and works closely with academic divisions, support centers, and administrative offices. Her background in educational technology and teaching help her to provide leadership in the areas of technology adoption and implementation, while ensuring that teaching and learning remain the focus of these decisions. Dr. Zvacek has worked in higher education as a faculty member, dissertation advisor, and administrator and her publications are in the areas of distance education, instructional design, and faculty development. Susan has been a Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic and a Fulbright Specialist appointed to the University of Porto (Portugal) where she led several short-courses for faculty members in the School of Engineering. Dr. Zvacek authored the preface to the online text “Using Remote Labs in Education” (2012, Universidad de Deusto) and continues to study and speak on topics related to designing effective learning strategies, whether online, face-to-face, or hybrid. She has been a keynote speaker at conferences in the UK, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Estonia, Cyprus, Portugal, and the United States.

“Know-How and Know-Why: Lab-Created Learning” Why do some programs of study build lab work into the curriculum? Although courses across a wide variety of disciplines traditionally include lab work, there is little consistency in how those labs (even within the same discipline) are configured and even less conversation about the value of lab work to student learning. Generally speaking, labs are typically intended to help students develop procedural skills (manipulate tools, for example), explore the processes of scientific experimentation, and link theory to practice (see, for example, ABET, 2013 and ENAEE, 2012). While most educators would agree that these goals - procedural skills, experimentation, and theoretical understanding – are listed from least-to-most important, the unfortunate truth is that they are also listed in order of easiest-to-most-difficult for both teaching and learning. In this session, we’ll discuss how the learning activities and the technological configurations of labs can be re-thought to address challenges for learning and for access. —

Professor Susan Zvacek University of Denver, USA

Wed3 – Plenary Session Wednesday, 3 June, 2015 15:00 - 15:50

(Rib. Theater)

Chairs: Mark Schulz and Gustavo Alves

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Dr Schulz has worked as a computer consultant in both the UK and in Australia; also for a short time, as a research scientist for the then Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights. Dr Schulz has been on the staff of the University of Essex (UK), the University of New South Wales, and finally The University of Queensland where he has worked since 1987. Until 2008 he was an academic teaching computer engineering in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE). He then took on the role of Associate Director in the research Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology (CEIT) at the University of Queensland until mid 2014. Since 2014 he has been a member of the UQx project (UQx is a member of the edX consortium) developing MOOCs for The University of Queensland. He has also continued to supervise about 20 two-semester final year electrical and computer engineering student thesis projects each year since 2008. His current research interests are in the areas of remote laboratories, sensor networks, real-time messaging, and UX design for distributed collaborative real-time user interfaces.

"Living and Working with the Internet of Things" We are living in the time when we see ever increasing instrumentation of our world. Data is being collected at an ever increasing rate, data to monitor performance and to control aspects of our daily experiences. This talk examines a few of the applications and looks at where these online “experiments” are leading us. Journalists are frequently referring to “The Internet of Things”, a term that is overloaded in its interpretation but which in part describes some of the data collection and interpretation we are witnessing. “Things” have existed since the early days of the Internet. The difference now is that there are many more and varied “things” on the Internet than ever before, and their number and variety is growing at an ever increasing rate. What will the future look like? We can never predict the future from the present as we are locked in our current frame of reference (we can’t foresee what will be invented), but we might have a guess at a future direction. This talk will examine some examples of Things on the Internet and look at how these “things” are being used to solve existing problems. How these things might be linked together is then discussed. The focus then moves to the relationship between the Internet of Things and real and virtual experiments and discusses some new aspects of these online experiments that, if addressed, may improve not only learning outcomes but may allow the operation of remote and virtual experiments to more closely approximate approaches used in real world environments.  

Professor Mark Schulz University of Queensland, Australia

Thu3 –Plenary Session Thursday, 4 June, 2015 14:00 - 14:50

(UAc Aud. North)

Chairs: Denis Gillet and Doru Ursutiu

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http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/332

exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation Abstracts — Tue3A

ABSTRACTS — Tuesday, June 2, 2015 Medical Applications I Papers: #29, #62, #77 Chairs: Paulo Menezes and Jorge Henriques —

#29 Remote Sensing Lab for Medical Thermal Physiological Assessment

Medical thermal imaging (MTI) has been used for over five decades, more in medical research than in daily clinical practice. However MTI can provide significant information about the peripheral physiology and thus be of a great help on clinic. Since it was firstly used in medicine, thermal image equipment has evolved, computers have been introduced, and guidelines and standards have been drawn. Even being the third oldest medical imaging modality, further developments are needed to achieve the level of other medical imaging methods, which are wider accepted. In addition, more significant technological development and the integration with the medical information systems still to be done. Other obstacles for the method adoption are the disregard of health professionals, the difficulty on getting adequate training and the large sources of error in a MTI examination. Based in this flaw, this document intends to describe the required developments to address MTI wider adoption and integration. In order to reduce the human factor and the examination environmental errors, the technological improvements needed to allow a remote automated assisted MTI laboratory are outlined. With the adoption and implementation of such suggestion, it will be possible, a wider acceptance of MTI among health professionals, a significant reduction of error sources, appropriate MTI operators training and consequent increase in the credibility and its application in clinical daily practice.

Tue3A UAc, Aud. N.

11:00 — 12:30

Ricardo Vardasca Rui Correia Joaquim Gabriel

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#62 Acoustic Cardiac Signal Analysis: a Toolbox

We present a Matlab framework for heart sound processing

and analysis. This framework includes algorithms developed

for segmentation of the main heart sound components

capable of handling situations with high-grade murmur, and

for measuring systolic time intervals (STI). Methods for

cardiac function parameter extraction based on STI are also

included. Currently, the proposed algorithms are being

extended for multi- channel applications. The algorithms

outlined in the paper have been extensively evaluated using

data collected from patients with several types of

cardiovascular diseases under real-life conditions.

Tue3A UAc, Aud. N.

11:00 — 12:30

Paulo Carvalho Rui Paiva Jorge Henrique D. Kumar R. Couceiro T. Sapata I.Quintal R. Baptista M. Antunes

#77 Development of a Portable System for Online EMG Monitoring

This article describes the development of a portable system

for online monitoring of EMG signals in the lower limbs. The

system is composed of a pair of lycra shorts with built-in

textile EMG electrodes and a belt-attached box with a

Raspberry Pi mini-computer with Wi-Fi connection, a set of

batteries with power regulators and a custom signal

acquisition board. The computer runs a Linux distribution

and connects to the Internet through an access point

nearby, such as a smartphone using the "HotSpot"

functionality. The EMG signals and other factors can be

observed through a Python program designed to run in

console mode through a SSH connection. Experimental

results with the first prototype of the system are shown in

the article.

Tue3A UAc, Aud. N.

11:00 — 12:30

Daniel Sá Pina António Augusto Fernandes Renato Natal Jorge Joaquim Gabriel Mendes

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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation Abstracts — Tue3B

Tuesday, June 2, 2015 Online Experimentation in Automation Papers: #07, #23, #35, #89 Chairs: Paulo Abreu and Aleksandar Peulic —

#7 Education in Industrial Automation Control by Using Remote Workplaces

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are widely used in

industrial production automation. A complex laboratory

equipment, which resembles an industrial process

respectively industrial work cell, is necessary for education

in this topic. Possibility of remote access and sharing of such

equipment is therefore a big advantage. Setting up such

remote workplace requires advanced technical solutions

that enable the learner to configure, program and test all

elements and overall operation of the workplace. The

remotely accessible workplace in here presented solution is

composed of four conveyor belts and two different PLCs.

Eight such, equivalent workplaces are geographically located

in Biel, Switzerland and used for education at Höhere

Fachschule für Technik Mittell, Switzerland; at University of

Maribor, Slovenia and for the in-company training in

Siemens Schweiz AG. The adopted pedagogical approach is

based on conventional in-the-classroom sessions during

which the learners execute exercises on remote workplaces.

This allows flexible training locations and, if necessary, also

access to the workplaces outside the laboratory hours while

keeping the advantages of conventional laboratory sessions.

The remote access to the workplaces is realized and

managed with Integrated Service Real-time Remote Network

(ISRRN) CEyeClon. The workplaces, ISRRN, laboratory

exercises and the students’ feedback are presented in this

paper.

Tue3B UAc, Aud. S.

11:00 — 12:30

Thomas Zürcher Andreja Rojko Darko Hercog

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#23 Feasibility Study of a Control System Based on PLC and EPICS for the ESTHER Combustion Gas Injection

The ESTHER laboratory will simulate spacecraft atmosphere

re-entry conditions by generating a shock wave through the

deflagration of a hydrogen, oxygen and helium gas mixture.

The gas injection sequence into the combustion chamber

must be precisely and safely controlled in order to prescribe

the initial pressure in the two-stage shock tube and to avoid

accidental detonations in any part of the system. In this

work, a prototype control system setup using a Siemens PLC

in an EPICS and CSS software environment is presented. An

example application was developed, where a simple control

sequence implemented on the PLC was remotely monitored

and controlled by an operator interface. This setup was able

to meet the control system requirements and the prototype

served as the starting point for the development of the

complete ESTHER gas injection controller.

Tue3B UAc, Aud. S.

11:00 — 12:30

Diogo Elói Aguiam Bernardo Brotas de Carvalho Mário Lino da Silva

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#35 Web Application to the Simplest Robust Controller Design

The paper discusses online course materials used in the

training for the simplest robust controller. It has been

proposed for the plant that can be represented by simple

gain and dead time. The controller design is realized by

choosing appropriate model parameters and and by

specifying the disturbance observer filter characterized by

its order and by the time constant. All parameters have to

be estimated in such a way that the loop will offer the

fastest possible dynamics of the set-point and disturbance

responses in a considered range of the plant parameter

values.

In order to help practitioners, engineers or other interested

users to set the controller parameters optimally, a web

application has been created. The interactive design

procedure is required to see impact of an estimate of the

uncertainty intervals for the dominant uncertain plant

parameter on the controller parameter values. The user can

e.g. choose the order of considered filters and then, by

using slider, the analyzed plant parameter (gain or dead

time) and to see the consequence of this choice (measured

e.g. by integral criteria). This approach enables to better

understand the controller influence on the loop

performance.

Tue3B UAc, Aud. S.

11:00 — 12:30

Mikuláš Huba Katarína Žáková

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#89 Online Laboratory for Research of Automatic Control Systems

The article describes an online laboratory for a wide range

of automated control systems researches with video stream

in real time. The online laboratory, based on a DC motor, is

an open source, suitable for modern mobile devices and it

also does not require additional client software.

Tue3B UAc, Aud. S.

11:00 — 12:30

Yurii Kuchirka Lidia Vytvytska Doru Ursutiu

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015 Remote Monitoring Papers: #08, #40, #83, #93, #101 Chairs: Zorica Nedic and Rui Calçada —

#8 Prototype of a GIS Web-Based Platform Integrating Sensor Data Geoprocessing for Disaster Management

This paper focuses on the interoperable Sensor Web and

Web Processing standards defined by the Open Geospatial

Consortium. Special attention will be given to the

combination of Sensor Web and the Web Processing Service,

which opens up new outlooks in the field of disaster

management, by having near real-time sensor data flows

linked on-demand to different geoprocessing services.

Though in an early stage, a web- based prototype will be

introduced as a proof of concept of the integration of those

two concepts.

Tue4A UAc, Aud. N.

14:00 — 15:45

Alexandra Ribeiro Alberto Cardoso

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#40 Using Embedded Instruments to Design Weblabs An FPGA-embedded Oscilloscope Based on the IEEE1451.0 Std.

The existence of digital instruments able to be remotely

accessed justifies the appearance of weblabs in engineering

education. Currently, weblabs adopt digital stand- alone and/

or modular instruments to enable the conduction of remote

experiments. Although, the evolution of digital processing

techniques and the dissemination of reconfigurable devices,

such as FPGAs, can be seen as an opportunity to reduce costs

and to increase the flexibility in the design of digital

instruments and, therefore, in the development of weblabs’

infrastructures. This paper explores the use of other type of

digital instruments to create weblabs, named embedded

instruments. It starts contextualizing those instruments, and

suggests some architectures for their adoption in weblabs’

infrastructures. Latter, it points out the importance of

following the IEEE1451.0 Std. to design embedded

instruments able to be reconfigured in FPGAs, which can be

the main elements of a reconfigurable weblab infrastructure.

An example of an embedded oscilloscope implemented in a

FPGA and described according to an architecture based on

the IEEE1451.0 Std. finishes the paper.

Tue4A UAc, Aud. N.

14:00 — 15:45

Ricardo J. Costa Diogo Eloi Pinho Gustavo R. Alves

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#83 Collaborative and Flexible Processing Infrastructure for Coastal Monitoring

Coastline Watch aims to assess the best practices to continuously monitor changes caused by natural processes (such as waves, tides and currents) and strengthen by human intervention or global climate changes. The current solution processes coastal information from Satellite open data for monitoring and makes insitu measurements using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for impact analysis. It uses a collaborative infrastructure to make processing requests, analyze and share the resulting outcomes with a project team. The first experimental processing service implements a shoreline monitoring chain to detect changes, to establish trends and indicators and to identify potential risks and critical areas. The service uses Landsat program data and it is prepared to support other open or commercial satellites, such as the Sentinel program. After identifying critical areas, the solution uses a methodology to determine impact of changes by making aerial data acquisitions and then estimating surface volumes changes. A cloud infrastructure, based on Amazon AWS technology, provides a distributed environment solution composed by a web portal, processing resources and an OGC database. The portal allows the users to generate new coastal products based on automated scripts, to share the results with the team and to view/download the final products. The service is being demonstrated on the coastal areas of Figueira da Foz and Óbidos lagoon over specific timeframes, being iteratively fine-tuned with users/researchers feedback. The current infrastructure is still under consolidation, with the final goal to provide automated processing tools and a methodology that could be collaboratively and continuously updated by researchers and professionals to generate data from new areas and update existing ones.

Tue4A UAc, Aud. N.

14:00 — 15:45

Nuno Duro Gil Gonçalves Ricardo Martins A. Alves da Silva

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#93 HeliosLab: a Remote Photovoltaic Laboratory

This paper presents a project dedicated to the development of an open access remote PV laboratory for educational purposes. The remote PV laboratory will be installed outdoors at the facilities of the TEI of Athens - Greece, which is in a geographical region characterized by a large number of annual sunshine hours, allowing the users to perform real-world tests and experiments with photovoltaic panels over the internet, in real time. At the same time, the student can have a live view of the systems through a web camera, offering him/her a sense of personal presence in the place where the experiment takes place. The system will be accessible by everyone on the planet with an internet access and will be offered in at least five different languages. It also will be accompanied by appropriate educational material, for several target groups, such as students, postgraduates, professionals and educators, allowing it to be used by a broad variety of users directly. Moreover, the remote laboratory will help students with disabilities, to increase their participation in a laboratory environment.

Tue4A UAc, Aud. N.

14:00 — 15:45

Thomas Zimmer Michel Billaud Emmanouil D. Fylladitakis Petros Axaopoulos

#101 Real Time Web Publishing of Environmental Noise Monitoring Data

This paper summarizes the steps that were followed in the

creation of a dynamic webpage for publishing, in real time,

the data from the Environmental Noise Monitoring station

installed at the Association for the Development of Industrial

Aerodynamics (ADAI), at the University of Coimbra. The

webpage has been used as part of a remote laboratory

activity in a distance learning course about indoor

environment comfort in buildings, organized by the University

of Coimbra.

Tue4A UAc, Aud. N.

14:00 — 15:45

João Dias Carrilho Mário Mateus Manuel Gameiro da Silva

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015 OEEE'15 Special Track OE in Science and Engineering Education I Papers: #01, #52, #63, #70 Chairs: Claudius Terkowsky and David Boehringer —

#1 Archimedes Remote Lab for Secondary Schools

This paper presents a remote lab designed for teaching the

Archimedes’ principle to secondary school students, as well

as an online virtual lab on the general domain of buoyancy.

The Archimedes remote lab is integrated into WebLab-

Deusto. Both labs are promoted for usage in frame of the

Go-Lab European project.

Tue4B UAc, Aud. S. 14:00 — 15:45 Javier García-Zubía Ignacio Angulo G. Martínez-Pieper Diego López de Ipiña Unai Hernández Pablo Orduna Olga Dziabenko Luis Rodríguez-Gil Siswa A.N. van Riesen Anjo Anjewierden Ellen T. Kamp Ton de Jong

#52 Remote Experiments and 3D Virtual World in Education

This paper discusses aspects of Information and Communications Technologies and how they have influenced our daily lives, especially our educational models. Despite the technological advances, the lack of interest of young people for science and technology careers increases and it is even more worsened by the fact that an extremely small number of schools have science and computer labs in Brazil. Moreover, some educational models have emerged in last decades contributing to teaching and learning process, and we discuss especially those which include remote experimentation and 3D virtual worlds, whose goal is to provide immersive learning environment with real experiments for students.

Tue4B UAc, Aud. S. 14:00 — 15:45

Caroline Porto Antonio J. P.Cardoso de Lima J. Bosco da Mota Alves Roderval Marcelino Juarez Bento da Silva J. P. Schardosim Simão

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#63 Interactive Online Tools for Control Engineering

The paper points to small number of university graduates in technical areas. It suggests to use interactive educational tools that are very popular among young people to attract more students for this very interesting direction. The attention is dedicated mainly to Control Engineering area. In spite of the fact that the number of online applications is step by step growing this field is not sufficiently covered, yet. The paper presents a set of online tools that are available for students of Control Engineering. They include web interface to some free computational environments such as Octave, Maxima or SciLab; web services to Octave, Maxima, OpenModelica software environments and set of developed online applications that use the introduced web services.

Tue4B UAc, Aud. S. 14:00 — 15:45

Katarína Žáková

#70 Remote Experimentation in Basic Education Using an Architecture with Raspberry Pi

This ar t i c le presents an a l ternat ive arch i techture implementation with the purpose of provide real experiments of remote access and expand teaching practices focused on experimentation toward physics education. The research uses a low cost open hardware and an available multiplatform with open source applications. With this initiative, lab resources can be accessed from schools, as many of them have not appropriate science lab for practical activities. This research have been applied in two public schools from Araranguá/SC that also face difficulties when using the computer lab. As a solution, the students use their own mobile devices to do science and physics experiments accessing, controlling and observing real experiments installed in the Remote Experimentation Lab (RExLab). Making new experiments is a collaborative work with the teachers of these schools and with the lab staff to adapt their idea to a low cost system with the Raspberry Pi. The study presented here intends to facilitate the experiments adaptation and motivate other research labs to make their experiments available.

Tue4B UAc, Aud. S. 14:00 — 15:45

M. Rocha Daros João Paulo Cardoso de Lima Willian Rochadel Juarez Bento Silva José Pedro Schardosim Simão

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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation Abstracts — Tue5

Tuesday June 2, 2015 Online Experimentation as a Tool for Research Papers: #108, #109, #115 Chairs: José Couto Marques and Mikulas Huba —

#108 Dynamic Monitoring of Civil Engineering Structures

The paper describes two dynamic monitoring systems

installed in civil engineering structures, a footbridge and a

suspended stadium roof. These systems are used for

characterization of environmental and operational effects

and, in the limit, for the early detection of damage. Some

examples of collected data and results are presented.

Tue5 LREC Aud. 16:30 - 18:30

Elsa Caetano Álvaro Cunha Carlos Moutinho Weihua Hu

#109 Weighing in Motion and Wheel Defect Detection of Rolling Stock

The primary goal of this project is the development of a low

cost track side system able to detect wheel defect impacts

and to weigh the train in motion. Such a monitoring system

may facilitate the infrastructure manager task of evaluating

if the load applied to the tracks caused by passing trains,

complies with the regulations. In this paper, the main

technical aspects of this system are presented.

Tue5 LREC Aud. 16:30 - 18:30

Andreia Meixedo André Gonçalves Rui Calçada Joaquim Gabriel Hélder Fonseca Rodolfo Martins

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#115 3D Atmosphere Column Evaluation and Clouds Tomography at Eastern North Atlantic

One source of uncertainty that thwarts accurate and comprehensive representation of present and future climate processes in models is the role of marine stratocumulus clouds. In particular, clouds that prevail over the eastern subtropical oceans have proven to play a critical role in boundary layer dynamics and in the global climate. Azores have been identified as having the mix condition for research on the life cycle and characteristics of marine startocumulos clouds and for a better understanding of the complex ocean atmosphere interactions.

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Program from the Department of Energy (DOE), with 20 years of operations, has been providing data to advance research from atmospheric observations at diverse climatic regimes around the world. Since 2009 Azores has been included in this global program. The campaign of the ARM Mobile Facility at Graciosa Island, Azores, in the context of the Clouds, Aerosol and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer (CAP-MBL) project, added the most extensive and comprehensive dataset of marine boundary layer (MBL) clouds to date. Solid preliminary findings a valuable data sets have been used since that to promote a true climatology of marine cloud structure over the north Atlantic. As a result, the facility becomes a fixed site on the 1st of October of 2013 and has joined the fixed network of the ARM Climate Research Facilities around the world. Identified broadly as the Eastern North Atlantic (ENA), this user facility has augmented the measurement capability with the addition of a Ka-/W-Band scanning cloud radar, a X-Band precipitation radar, Doppler lidar and an extensive set of radiometric measurements and routine radiosonde soundings, which, taken together, provide a three-dimensional view of the atmospheric phenomena, some of them poorly understood until now.

Tue5 LREC Aud. 16:30 - 18:30

Kim Nitschke Eduardo Azevedo

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Off-line/on-line? Why not both?

I will talk about the fact that in my opinion we try to make all

the experimental applications available on-line assuming

that everybody has the same access possibilities. I think this

is a big mistake and we should make experimental

applications available both on-line, so that (almost) no

download is required, and also on a repository server from

where they can be downloaded for use in local devices,

without internet access speed constraints.

Also I will talk about some tools, like WorldViz Vizard, that

include some AR libraries and most importantly are based

on Python scripting and royalties free creation of

executables.

Tue5 LREC Aud. 16:30 - 18:30

Miguel Motos

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exp.at’15 — Online Experimentation Abstracts — Wed1

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 Online Experimentation I Demos: #02, #06, #10, #13, #14, #15, #19, #25, #28, #30, #36, #37, #42, #50, #65, #71, #74, #98, #111, #112, #113 Chairs: Alexander Zimin, Danilo Zutin and Horácio Fernandes —

#2 Archimedes Remote Lab

The paper presents a remote lab for teaching the

Archimedes’ Principle. The Archimedes Lab is designed and

implemented using sensors, electronic board, test tubes,

high definition cameras, motors and objects. It is integrated

into the WebLab-Deusto platform.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30 Javier García-Zubía Ignacio Angulo G. Martínez-Pieper D. López de Ipiña Unai Hernández Pablo Orduna Olga Dziabenko Luis Rodríguez-Gil

#6 Remote Real Laboratories in Massive Open On-line Laboratories (MOOLs) A Live Demonstration at experimenta@2015

Attempts to build MOOLs over major remote laboratories

lead to disappointing results in terms of scalability to large

student target audience. Nevertheless e-lab framework

developed at IST was designed from scratch to serve many

simultaneous users attached at the same time to the same

remote experiment. Whereas as an alternative many MOOLs

infrastructure rely on deferred batch execution or data-base

mining on previous recorded data, e-lab always rely on real-

time data taken from online running experiments. In this

demonstration we shall address this two complementary

paradigms and point out how a compromise can be

achieved in the case the “massive” is assumed in moderated

terms.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Horácio Fernandes Samuel Balula Rafael Marques Ruben Henriques Tiago Pereira

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#10 Demonstration of Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems Using a Remote Lab

Engineering courses can benefit of the use of remote labs to support teaching and online learning. A remote control system could be an effective tool to be used in practical classes and to enhance the students' experimental skills. Online experimentation represents also a very important support in engineering teaching and can be used to improve the students learning process, for example in Electrical Engineering courses, on topics such as identification and control systems. This paper describes the demonstration of an online experiment, supported by a lab system, to identify a model and to control a nonlinear electrical system. An experimental setup, based on a Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network (WSAN), is used to interact with the remote lab through a Web platform, where students can visualize and obtain data in real time from the remote system.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Alberto Cardoso Vitor Sousa Joaquim Leitão Vitor Graveto Paulo Gil

#13 Next-Generation Experimental Lab #1

This work describes a Demo to be presented at exp.at’15 Demo Session based in the use of an Oculus Rift Development Kit 2, and a set of virtual reality (VR) applications developed to be interacted by using a haptic device. The system pretends to be an experimental room where four basic experiments are available. The use of the Oculus VR, a type of a head-mounted display, offering a stereoscopic 3D View, combined with the haptic device interacting with the VR applications, is an example of Next-Generation Virtual Reality Technology. The system has been developed to be used in “Life Sciences Centers” and which can be entitled Next-Generation Experimental Lab. This tool can also be online available.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

M. Teresa Restivo Manuel Rodrigues Quintas José Rodrigues Alberto Cardoso

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#14 Demonstration of Programming in Python Using a Remote Lab with Raspberry Pi

The development of programming skills in computer science

students, namely algorithm thinking and logical reasoning, is

an important challenge to overcome their difficulties in CS1

and CS2 courses. With the advent of Internet of Things, the

actual approaches based on project-oriented learning

processes can be extended to use experimental setups with

low cost microcomputers. In this paper, we provide a

demonstration of online experiences with Raspberry Pi,

connected to a wireless sensor network, in order to give CS2

students the ability to interact to physical world through

practical examples in the context of online experimentation.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Hélia Guerra Alberto Cardoso Vitor Sousa Joaquim Leitão Vitor Graveto L. Mendes Gomes

#15 Demonstration of Modeling and Simulation of Physiological Processes Using a Remote Lab

Remote and virtual labs represent a very important support

in engineering teaching and can be used to improve the

students learning process, for example of Biomedical

Engineering courses, on topics such as the identification of

models and control systems. This paper describes the

demonstration of an online experiment, supported by a

three-tank lab system, to model, simulate and monitoring a

physiological process as the system of ingestion and

excretion of a drug. A Web platform is used to interact with

the remote and virtual lab, where students can visualize and

obtain data in real time from the remote system.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Alberto Cardoso Daniel Osório Joaquim Leitão Vitor Sousa Vitor Graveto César Teixeira

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#19 A Remote Experiment vs. Hands-on

This work describes a Demo to be presented in the Demo Session at exp.at’15, related with an experiment that can be used either as hands-on or as a remote setup. In this way, after lab sessions students may use a totally familiar experiment any time they need to go back to the experimental topic. The electronics and the web server functionality are based on microcontrollers’ capabilities and the sensing system is based on simple and homemade sensing devices. The prototype allows students to compare the mechanical properties of two different materials or offers a more complete investigation by analyzing and comparing results from distinct specimens – materials and/or beam geometries. It also permits to understand easily the concept of stiffness and its relation with Young Modulus and the specimen dimensions.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

T. Faustino Andrade M. Teresa Restivo Manuel Rodrigues Quintas Bruno Filipe Santos

#25 Instrumented Glove for Rehabilitation Exercises

This work describes an instrumented glove suitable for the rehabilitation of patients that show movement limitations after suffering a stroke. This instrumented glove uses angular position sensors to measure rotation of each joint of each finger and pressure sensors to monitor the pressure applied on each fingertip. Each finger also has a vibration motor and an indicator LED to provide a stimulus during rehabilitation exercises. The glove communicates via Serial Peripheral Interface protocol (SPI) with an HMI module where a graphical application was developed in order to monitor each finger and to implement rehabilitation game-like exercises. Nonetheless, this device has the capability to monitor and record the sensor data during the implemented exercises for further data analysis.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Rafael Tavares Paulo Abreu Manuel Quintas

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#28 GOLDi – Grid of Online Lab Devices Ilmenau Demonstration of Online Experimentation

Based on a grid concept of an interactive hybrid online

laboratory we will describe different fields of applications in

different learning scenarios. This infrastructure guaranties a

reliable, flexible as well as robust usage of this online lab. By

using GOLDi, students are able to design control algorithms

with different specification techniques to control electro-

mechanical hardware models in the online lab. Additionally,

the reconfigurable rapid prototyping platform of the GOLDi

system can be used to test all the taught topics of a given

lectures in the field of digital system design. Finally, a special

demonstration platform (a ball in a labyrinth on a balance

plate) can be used to give the students a better feeling

about the possibilities and limitations of remote control and

observation via Internet and to evaluate these technologies

critically.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Karsten Henke Tobias Vietzke Heinz-Dietrich Wuttke Steffen Ostendorff

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#30 Remote Laboratories: Development and Implementation of a Remote Experience in Physics

Remote laboratory technologies can be considered as a new

paradigm for experimentation for students and researchers.

Remote laboratories are distributed computing environment

which allows learners to perform experiments by interacting

with real devices, real instruments, and remote

mechanisms, through an appropriate platform of

telecommunications. The development of remote

laboratories is a promising direction for the future of

engineering education because they provide means for

students to design and conduct experiments without the

need for physical laboratory equipment on site. To achieve

this objective, we first designed an experimental setup and

put it online. We then made the management system for the

environment we created. In this paper, we describe our

methodology for creating a remote laboratory. Specifically,

we provide details of the implementation via the web.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Yassine Khazri Ahmed Fahli Mohammed Moussetad Abdelatif Khaldouni

#36 A Model Supercomputer for Instructional Support

Designed to visually illustrate the impact of internode

communication on high performance computing, this model

supercomputer integrates the major architectural

components of modern heterogeneous machines. Using

inexpensive compute nodes the machine supports major

supercomputing development tools including OpenMP, MPI,

and Nvidia’s CUDA. These capabilities make it an accessible

tool for illustrating parallel computing to a variety of classes.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

James Wolfer

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#37 Haptic Palpation of Aortic Pressure Waveforms

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death

worldwide. According to the World Health Organization,

cardiovascular disease was responsible for 17.5 million

deaths in 2012, or 30% of all deaths. Recent research

suggests that, in addition to pulse rate, the pulse

waveform itself contains useful diagnostic information. To

explore tactile representation of these waveforms, this

demonstration deploys a haptic representation of the

aortic pressure profile synchronized to a synthetic

electrocardiogram using a consumer grade haptic

interface.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Alexander LeClair James Wolfer

#42 The Smart Wind Turbine Lab

Remote experimentation is at the core of Science

Technology Engineering and Mathematics education

supported by e-learning. The development and integration

of remote laboratories in online learning activities is

hindered by the inherited supporting infrastructure’s

architecture and implementation. In this paper we present a

remote experiment (The Smart Wind Turbine) built following

the Smart Device Paradigm and integrated in an Inquiry

Learning Space: the rich open educational resource defined

in the EU project Go-Lab. Graasp- an educational social

media platform, is the authoring and hosting tool. The

Golabz platform is the dissemination medium among

teachers and students.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Wissam Halimi Christophe Salzmann Denis Gillet

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#50 A Mobile Remote Experimentation Environment for Basic Education

In this work, we present a brief report on a pilot project based on the concepts of Mobile Remote Experimentation (MRE). The project aims to provide an environment and a model using open source tools that can be replicated, since these are likely to re-use and have low cost, essential factors when it comes to public education. When proposing a model that favors replication, it is being created an opportunity to students’ access, especially in the public Basic Education system, a technological platform that allows them to perform laboratory practices remotely via mobile devices, and without restrictions of time and space. In this way, students acquire a more complete view of the physical phenomena and the different models that describe them. Furthermore, the project provides an opportunity for teachers to develop plans lessons, including the curricular integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Juarez Bento Silva Priscila Cadorin Nicolete Marta Silva Cristiano José Schardosim Simão Willian Rochadel Marina Rocha Daros João Mota Alves Simone Sommer Bilessimo

#65 A Tool for ECG Analysis as a Module of a Tele-Monitoring System

This work briefly describes a Matlab tool originally developed in the HeartCycle European project and updated during the cardioRisk project. It addresses the analysis of the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal in the context of the management of heart failure (HF) patients. The toolbox is composed of six modules, focusing on the major clinical aspects relevant to HF diagnosis: signal delineation, detection of auricular and ventricular arrhythmias, ST segment deviation and heart rate variability analysis. The last module was the main focus of the cardioRisk project.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Teresa Rocha Simão Paredes Ramona Cabiddu Ricardo Couceiro Paulo Carvalho Jorge Henriques

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#71 Introducing RALfie – Remote Access Laboratories for Fun, Innovation and Education

Remote Access laboratories are online platform for performing experiments from remote locations. Usually these systems follow a centralised client-server paradigm. This demo will present RALfie - Remote Access Laboratories for Fun, Innovation and Education that is a peer-to-peer remote access laboratory architecture where participants are both users of experiments as well as makers. The system is built upon a VPN service that allows direct access between learner and makers’ experiential rigs. A graphical programming language SNAP is the basis of programming and interfacing with the experimental rig. Apart from experiment and interfaces, quest-based learning strategy is used that presents the experiments as a set of hierarchical groups of activities or quests. This distributed design of RAL allows more hands-on experience to build any experimental setup and provides opt unities to collaborate with fellow students.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Alexander Kist Ananda Maiti Andrew D. Maxwell

#74 Enhancing the Usability of the Blackbody Radiation Remote Lab

This paper presents a remote lab for secondary level students and how it can be made available for a wider range of students. Therefore an HTML5 client is developed and the iLab Shared Architecture is used to connect the client with the lab server. Further, the lab has been added to the Go-Lab ecosystem via the Smart Gateway.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Christian Kreiter Danilo Garbi Zutin

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#98 Demonstration of the Influence of Human Emotions in Physiological Signals

In this demonstration we present a VR-based laboratory experience that enables K12 students to understand the effect that emotions play in our bodies. For attaining this purpose, a VR based system is proposed where three different virtual scenarios aim at inducing specific sensations and emotions on the students.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Bruno Patrão João Seabra Samuel Pedro Paulo Menezes

#111 Development of an Application for Remote Syringe Pump Control in Anesthesia Infusion

Anesthesia induction is a high risk step in every surgical procedure. However, monitoring and control of anesthesia depth is not fully developed, due to the lack of constant correlation between vital signs and drug infusion. This work proposes a LabVIEW user-friendly application tool to control syringe pumps using serial communication protocol, to enable a better control of the drug infusion process. This application adds several new functionalities, such as alarm detection and handling, faster modification of the infusion rate during anesthetic procedures, data logging, etc. in a simpler way than using the controls on the pump syringe. To make it more flexible, in order to fulfill the requirements of a research application, modular programming was used. This application combines in a single output file, synchronized signals from drug infusion and commands that have been sent. This way it will allow a much faster post-processing of the obtained data, like correlations between induction and depth of anesthesia. For future developments, this application should offer a virtual TCI option towards the control of anesthesia depth. Considering the programming method used, it will be possible to include PK-PD algorithms and link their output to the stored data, while controlling drug infusion process.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Rui Correia Joaquim Gabriel Catarina S. Nunes Pedro Amorim David A. Ferreira

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#112 On-line Monitoring System for Tracks

Rolling stock wheels eventually show, soon or later,

geometry defects, cracks, fatigue, flaking, wear, etc. These

defects induce an additional stress in both, wheels and rail

tracks which in turn tend to decrease the infrastructure life

time.

This paper presents an on-line monitoring system installed

at Estarreja (Portugal north rail track network) able to detect

the approximation to the measure zone, identify the vehicle

(through a RFID tag), measure the dynamic strain of the

tracks, the environment temperature, the speed and

direction of the wind. Based on these data, it is estimated

the weight (at a stop) applied to each wheel and the

asymmetry of the weight distribution. This demo will show

how to access remotely to the system to get the data, and

how to process/presenting it.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Andreia Meixedo André Gonçalves Rui Calçada Joaquim Gabriel Hélder Fonseca Rodolfo Martins

#113 Dynamic Monitoring of Lively Footbridges

The demo will focus on two dynamic monitoring systems

installed in footbridges with the purpose of characterizing

the dynamic behavior and response of these structures and

possibly detecting damage at early stages.

Wed1 UAc, Expos. 09:00 — 10:30

Elsa Caetano Álvaro Cunha Carlos Moutinho Weihua Hu

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015 Online Experimentation II Demos: #12, #26, #27, #33, #51, #55, #57, #75, #76, #79, #82, #84, #87, #88, #99, #100, #102, #104, #105 Chairs: Alexander Zimin, Danilo Zutin and Horácio Fernandes —

#12 Demonstration of GIS Web-Based Platform for Experimentation Supported by Geosensors in a WSN

In this work we present a GIS web-based open source

platform for wireless in situ geosensor data visualization

and distributed geoprocessing. Emphasis is put on: i)

visualization of sensor measurements and sensor location

on a map; ii) geoprocessing of these data; iii) and,

visualization of geoprocessing results on a map. The

platform combines the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards, in particular the

Sensor Observation Service (SOS), and the OGC Web

Processing Service (WPS).

Wed2 UAc, Expos. 11:00 — 12:30

Alexandra Ribeiro Jorge Vieira Vitor Sousa Alberto Cardoso

#26 Monitoring System for Cold Storages

This work describes a monitoring system for cold storages

that includes: temperature, relative humidity, electric power

and the state of the access door. It is compliant with ISO

12830 Class 1: capable of measuring temperature from -20

to 60◦C and humidity up to 100%RH. This system is a complete monitoring, logging and alarm generation solution

whose capability was tested in real-life applications.

Wed2 UAc, Expos. 11:00 — 12:30

Pedro Sousa Manuel Quintas Paulo Abreu

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#27 Wireless Control and Network Management of Door Locks

This demo exemplifies the use of different wireless

protocols, such as BLE and NFC, to manage and control

multiple door locks. Each lock is able to transfer data to a

router through a wireless protocol, MiWiTM. The latter is

connected trough an Ethernet network to a computer that

manages the permissions for each lock, logging all the

events.

Wed2 UAc, Expos. 11:00 — 12:30

Pedro Sousa Rafael Tavares Paulo Abreu Manuel Quintas Ana Reis Maria Teresa Restivo

#33 1 DOF Haptic Device for Online Experimentation

This work describes a Demo to be presented in the Demo

Session at exp.at’15, related to a DIY Kit system of 1 Degree

Of Freedom (DOF) to be used for interacting with virtual

reality (VR) applications of simple models. The DIY Kit system

and the VR applications to be downloaded by the user are

available at the web page: http://onlinelab.fe.up.pt/

vr_exp.html.

Wed2 UAc, Expos. 11:00 — 12:30

Fernando Carneiro Jorge Silva Manuel Quintas Paulo Abreu Maria Teresa Restivo

#51 Labicom Labs: RLL, GNSS, Oscilloscope and Generator Remote and Virtual Labs Interactive Demonstration of Labicom Labs in Spring 2015

This paper outlines a demonstration of a few remote and

virtual laboratories at Labicom platform. The interactive

Labicom demo session during ExpAT’15 conference will

show a general user workflow as well as examples of lab

sessions in remote and virtual laboratories.

Wed2 UAc, Expos. 11:00 — 12:30

Igor Titov Alexander Glotov Igor Vlasov Jakov Mikolnikov

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http://onlinelab.fe.up.pt/vr


#55 Monitoring of Coal Waste Piles with Fiber Optic Sensing Technology

Coal has been for centuries a central energy source to

fulfill industrial and domestic needs. Its large scale

extraction produced huge amount of debris that were

piled in the neighboring of the mines, quite often going

into combustion triggered by events like forest fires or

lightning. When in this state it can continue for years,

releasing substantial emissions of toxic and greenhouse

gases with recognized impact in the environment and,

more serious in the short term, in the life quality of the

populations located nearby. Continuous monitoring of

combustion temperature and emission levels of certain

gases opens the possibility to plan corrective actions to

minimize their negative impact. Optical fiber technology is

well- suited to this purpose and here it is described the

main attributes of a fiber optic sensing system projected

to gather data on distributed temperature and gas

emission in these harsh environments.

Wed2 UAc, Expos. 11:00 — 12:30

Jose Luis Santos Duarte Viveiros Joana Ribeiro João Ferreira Ana M. R.

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