Historical farm ponds have been designed, maintained, and established as heritage sites or cultural landscapes. Has their gradually evolving function resulted in changes to the landscape influenced by their degenerated nature and the new urban fabric...
Although digital twins have been established in manufacturing for a long time, they are only more recently making their way into the urban environment and present a relatively new concept for the construction industry. The concept of a digital twin&m...
Currently, the gamification of virtual reality for training miners, especially for emergencies, and designing the extraction of minerals in difficult technological conditions has been embodied in the Virtual Mine software and hardware. From a softwar...
This paper introduces a Python framework for developing Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in an open-source Godot game engine to tackle sim-to-real research. A framework was designed to communicate and interface with the Godot game engine to perform...
With the growth of artificial intelligence and deep learning technology, we have many active research works to apply the related techniques in various fields. To test and apply the latest machine learning techniques in gaming, it will be very useful...
Teaching software engineering in its many different forms using traditional teaching methods is difficult. Serious games can help overcome these challenges because they allow real situations to be simulated. However, the development of serious games...
Spatial thinking and spatial orientation skills are involved in tasks related to the recognition of landforms, mapping, spatial interpretation, and landscape analysis, and can be developed with specific training. Game engines can facilitate the creat...
Extended Reality (XR) is an emerging technology that enables enhanced interaction between the real world and virtual environments. In this study, we conduct a scoping review of XR engines for developing gamified apps and serious games. Our study revo...
Increasing interest has recently been shown towards the digital twins of cities. These urban digital twins utilize 3D city models together with other data sources, such as open data, which can be accessed, e.g., through application programming interf...
Developers have long used game engines for visualizing virtual worlds for players to explore. However, using real-world data in a game engine is always a challenging task, since most game engines have very little support for geospatial data. This pap...
The project involved applying gamification methodology in the teaching of engineering and materials science through the creation of a board game. This game facilitated the active study of the subject, encouraged self-assessment, and developed general...
Technological advances have been the main driver of enhancing human–computer interaction and interactive simulations have experienced exponential growth in recent years. However, visual and auditory channels are usually the only ones considered...
Today, students are accustomed to visual information and need engaging, stimulating, and fun teaching in logic and engineering methods for learning purposes. Traditional presentations and the transfer of memory information cannot arouse students&rsqu...
Many game-based instructional designs have demonstrated effectiveness for a variety of educational outcomes, although typically in limited contexts. In this article, we report the results of a four-year study testing the extent to which a game-based...
This paper presents a software engineering case study on designing a reusable architecture for interactive 2D card games using Godot 4 and GDScript. Rather than focusing only on a specific game implementation, the study investigates generalizable eng...
Realistic 3D geovisualization is necessary to facilitate the perception of a landscape designer in relation to the environment, which is a determining factor in decision-making in landscape planning and management. In the field of landscape design te...
As educational tools continue to evolve technologically, game-based learning (GBL) has emerged for its ability to improve specific learning outcomes such as motivation, engagement, and knowledge acquisition and retention. Despite recent advances with...
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The innovation of the biomedical engineering (BME) industry is inseparable from its cooperation with medical institutions. China has considerable medical institutions. Although private hospitals account for more than half of Chinese medical instituti...
Engineering ethics education faces the challenge of moving students from abstract principles toward context-sensitive decision-making. This exploratory mixed-methods study examined associations between participation in a board-game-based strategy and...
This study explores the reuse of high-resolution 3D spatial datasets for multiple urban analyses within a game engine environment, aligning with circular economy principles in sustainable urban planning. The work is situated in two residential test a...
The variable cycle engine selects the appropriate working mode through mode switch to meet the requirements of low specific fuel consumption and high unit thrust. When the variable cycle engine switches between different modes, it should ensure the s...
For the purpose of the conservation and representation of cultural heritage, the development of a visual interactive environment to provide an integrated application suitable for collecting a wide range of big data information from historic blocks is...
In this article, the intended purpose is to show an innovative technique for estimating the MIMO channel at millimeter wave bands, candidates for mobile 5G technology, by using hardware acceleration, game engines and heuristic algorithms applied to o...
Construction simulation has been widely used in academia for research purposes. However, it has been neglected by the industry for various reasons, including the amount of data, skills, effort, and time required to develop complex simulation models,...
Existing moving target defense (MTD) and decoy systems are conceptually limited in avoiding and preventing attackers’ social-engineering real-time attacks by organization through either structural mutations or induction and isolation only using...
Under the ‘PPP + EPC + whole-process engineering consultation’ mode, this article constructs a replication dynamic evolutionary game model of the main participants, namely, the government, social capital, and the whole-process engineering...
We live in an era characterized by Society 4.0 and Industry 4.0 where successive innovations that are more or less disruptive are occurring. Within this context, the modeling and simulation of dynamic supervisory and control systems require dealing w...
The rapid evolution of deep learning and computer vision has transformed markerless motion capture (MoCap) from specialized biomechanical tools into a key technology for real-time interactive systems, video game engines, and virtual production. This...
The Hunger Games Search (HGS) is an innovative optimizer that operates without relying on gradients and utilizes a population-based approach. It draws inspiration from the collaborative foraging activities observed in social animals in their natural...
Floods are among the most destructive natural disasters and can devastate human life, infrastructure, and mobility in urban areas. It is necessary to develop a simulation model suitable for disaster management to prepare for flooding and facilitate r...
This article identifies and summarizes software tools and frameworks proposed in the Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) literature for developing extended reality (XR) experiences using game engines. This review includes primary studies proposing Vi...
Active learning strategies are increasingly implemented in chemical engineering education, yet challenges persist in stimulating student participation and motivation. The rigorous demands placed on students in this field, from complex practical requi...
In this paper, we present a novel implementation of an ecosystem simulation. In our previous work, we implemented a 3D environment based on a predator–prey model, but we found that in most cases, regardless of the choice of starting parameters,...
(1) At present, it is important to bring the latest technologies from industrial practice into the teaching process of educational institutions, including universities. The presented case study addresses the application of educational games in virtua...
Using version control tools is an indispensable skill for engineers in the software industry. This study introduces a gamification approach together with a serious game called the Git Education Game (GEG) to teach Git concepts and usage, intending to...
Procedural approaches have long been used in game development to reduce authoring costs and increase content diversity; however, traditional rule-based systems struggle to scale narrative complexity, whereas recent large language model (LLM)-based me...
This article explores the potential of the Unreal Engine as a tool for creating realistic 3D visualizations of large-scale areas (1000 km2 and more) using GIS datasets. Unlike small-scale visualizations, large-scale visualizations are rare and often...
This research focuses on applying Game Theory to teach the PERT scheduling method to civil engineering students. The work was carried out with students from the Construction Planning and Scheduling course, who were given face-to-face classes on Game...
In recent decades, simulation has emerged as a pivotal educational tool, bolstering scientific knowledge and honing decision-making skills across diverse disciplines. Surgery and flight simulators are well-known tools used to practice and train safel...
Targeted nature-based small-scale interventions is an approach commonly adopted by urban developers. The public acceptance of their implementation could be improved by participation, emphasizing residents or shopkeepers located close to the areas of...
Immersive tools are being adopted as an alternative to traditional education methods, especially in engineering curricula, where it is common to integrate various disciplines such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This syst...
Floating-point arithmetic is a common computational method, used to represent large or infinite space in software, such as game engines. This paper explores floating-point arithmetic in the game engine Unity, as it renders an infinitely falling objec...
Displaying search results in a vertical list, existing academic search engines do not reveal deeper insight into searched topics such as their connections with other topics. To address this issue, this paper proposes two interactive information visua...
Game commentary enhances viewer immersion and understanding, particularly in football video games, where dynamic gameplay offers ideal conditions for automated commentary. The existing methods often rely on predefined templates and game state inputs...
The rapid proliferation of misinformation on social media underscores the urgent need for scalable digital-literacy instruction. This study presents the design and evaluation of a Generative AI-enhanced serious game system that integrates Large Langu...
To improve requirement specification skills, it is vital to detect ambiguous requirements in order to correct them later. Thus, to help software engineering students improve their capacity to identify ambiguous user requirements (requirements that do...
Lean philosophy introduces a new approach for maximizing value while minimizing waste, facilitating sustainable practices at the same time. Companies have become aware of these improvements and are demanding students well formed in Lean concepts. How...
Have you ever thought what would happen if a ransomware infected your laptop? This type of virus kidnaps files and encrypts them, and the only way to recover the data is by paying in bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency. This situation is undoubtedly...
Public landscape impact assessment of renewable energy installations is crucial for their acceptance. Thus, a sound assessment basis is crucial in the implementation process. For valuing landscape perception, the visual sense is the dominant human se...
Unsupervised image-to-image translation techniques have been used in many applications, including visible-to-Long-Wave Infrared (visible-to-LWIR) image translation, but very few papers have explored visible-to-Mid-Wave Infrared (visible-to-MWIR) imag...
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