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Search results for: INTERNET VOTING, ONLINE PARTICIPATION, DIGITAL PLATFORMS, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, AGGREGATIVE DEMOCRACY, DIRECT DEMOCRACY, DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY, ESTONIA, CATALONIA, DECIDIM

  • Informal projects management with volunteers participation

    The article briefly presents some experiences and results of research which has been conducted in order to identify key elements influencing the success of projects managed in informal way with volunteers’ participation. These experiences were collected during the realization of several “soft” projects. The general aims of these projects were sports competitions’ organisation, cultural events and charity projects for...

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  • Massive Open Online Courses: strategies and research areas

    Publication
    • J. Murphy
    • N. Sabatini
    • A. Williams
    • P. Ryan
    • L. Cantoni
    • L. Horton-tognazzini

    - Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education - Year 2014

    The latest education revolution, the massive open online courses (MOOCs), is gaining momentum, accolades, and participation across industry and academia. These learning laboratory behemoths host and assess tens to hundreds of thousands of students in a single class, for free. Similar to their scope, MOOCs’ short- and long-term educational implications seem massive. Immediate MOOC educational outcomes vary widely from roaring successes...

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  • Internet Technologies in Infosystems - lecture 2022/23

    e-Learning Courses
    • A. Szewczyk

    The aim of the course "Internet technologies in infosystems" is to familiarize students with issues related to the use of Internet technologies in the implementation of infosystems, including languages and web development tools, as well as application and transmission protocols.

  • Affective reactions to playing digital games

    Publication

    - Year 2015

    The paper presents a study of emotional states during a gameplay. An experiment of two-player Tetris game is reported, followed by the analysis of the results - self-reported emotional states as well as physiological signals measurements interpretation. The study reveals the diversity of emotional reactions and concludes, that a representative player's emotional model is hard to define. Instead, an adaptive approach to emotion...

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  • Digital government evolution: From transformation to contextualization

    Publication

    The Digital Government landscape is continuously changing to reflect how governments are trying to find innovative digital solutions to social, economic, political and other pressures, and how they transform themselves in the process. Understanding and predicting such changes is important for policymakers, government executives, researchers and all those who prepare, make, implement or evaluate Digital Government decisions. This...

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  • ANALYSIS OF THE PUNCHING FAILURE MECHANISM IN WORKING PLATFORMS

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    - Year 2013

    Paper presents an analysis of the shear failure mechanism which occurs from the punching of a working platform layer in relation to its thickness, grain size arrangement and mechanical properties, taking into consideration the interaction with soft subgrade. The study is based on the observations of performance of natural scale structures (Streefkerk) and the results of model investigations numerically represented with the use...

  • CIVILIZING THE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PRACTICE IN POST-TRANSITION COUNTRIES

    The phenomenon of public participation is not so new to both planning theory and practice. In fact, involving local community in the decision-making process regarding local urban development directions is widely discussed and a number of various forms of these are being introduced. This paper deals with a number of

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  • A new pitch shifter based on complex instantaneous frequency rescaling and direct digital synthesis

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    - Year 2005

    Zaproponowano nową metodę zmiany wysokości dźwięku za pośrednictwem skalowania zespolonej częstotliwości chwilowej i na podstawie cyfrowej syntezy bezpośredniej. Zaprezentowano schematy blokowe opracowanych algorytmów. Pracę zilustrowano przykładem syntezy sygnału wywoławczego (''dzwonka'' telefonicznego), gdzie dźwięki poszczególnych nut generowanej melodii uzyskano na podstawie naturalnego sygnału - pojedynczego świergotu o widmie...

  • Hybrid Laboratory of Radio Communication With Online Simulators and Remote Access

    Contribution: Two toolsets for the remote teaching of radio communication laboratory classes: 1) online simulators for individual work of students and 2) a remote access system to laboratory workstations for group work. Initial assumptions and method of implementation of both tools are presented. Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a change in teaching at all levels of education. The specificity of practical classes, such...

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  • Internet payment methods in Poland

    Publication

    In this chapter authors intended to describe wide range of aspects of the Internet payment systems. At the beginning there is briefly shown their evolution and features required for the effective payment system. Data on the popularity of different payment systems in Internet transactions links this section with description of the current state of payment systems available in Poland.

  • Borders of Digital Art in the Context of the Information Society

    Publication

    The article shows the relationship between the development of information technologies, the characteristics of the information society and digital art. The broad possibilities of the digital world related to recording, storing and processing data (cyber text, big data, smart services) and the creation of virtual worlds are pointed out. The influence of the development of information technologies on the character of the works of...

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  • 2022/2023 Global Digital Transformation-Spring semester-Online

    e-Learning Courses
    • N. Sabatini

  • Participatory Budgeting in Poland – Missing Link in Urban Regeneration Process

    In last thirty years Poland has gone a long way toward democracy and decentralization. Role of public participation in planning is increasing rapidly and recently many new instruments of empowering the community is being introduced, participatory budgeting is one of the most important. On the other hand, urban regeneration is one of the most important challenges of polish cities are facing. Technical and transport infrastructure...

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  • The need for new transport protocols on the INTERNET

    The TCP/IP protocol suite is widely used in IP networks, regardless of diverse environments and usage scenarios. Due to the fact of being the basic concept of organizing the work of the Internet, it is the subject of interest and constant analysis of operators, users, network researchers, and designers. The Internet is a "living" organism in which new needs appear all the time. This is particularly important due to the emerging...

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  • Electron attachment to representative cations composing ionic liquids

    Publication

    - JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS - Year 2021

    Using ab initio electronic structure methods with flexible atomic orbital basis sets, we investigated the electronic structure and stability of reduction products of selected representative cations (C+) constituting ionic liquids. We found that an electron attachment to such cations leads to the neutral radicals, whereas a subsequent attachment of another (i.e., excess) electron leads to adiabatically stable anions only in two...

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  • Application development for Android, iOS and BlackBerry mobile platforms

    Mobile devices, along with dedicated operating systems, have become a substantial and rising trend in software development. Computer industry has significantly changed in order to fulfil the needs of this new segment of the market. Authors have participated in projects, which involved programming on Android, iOS and BlackBerry operating systems. In this paper the most popular mobile platforms (and multiplatform Unity3D environment)...

  • The Effect of Online Reviews on Consumer-Based Brand Equity: Case-Study of the Polish Restaurant Sector

    Publication

    Purpose: This paper focuses on the effects of positive and negative online reviews (eWOM) on the metrics of consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) in the context of the Polish restaurant sector. Methodology: The dedicated online survey was completed by 777 consumers, which we then analyzed with structural equation modeling. Each catering outlet was to allow to order meals online. We used descriptive analysis, confirmatory factor analysis,...

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  • TEARING THE SPACE APART. RESPONSIBLE PARTICIPATION OR SELF-SERVING PARTICIPATION

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  • Efecto contagio en el uso del voto electrónico en Estonia: de las elecciones a otros niveles de la administración pública y la sociedad

    Publication

    - Year 2019

    Estonia, cuarto país más pequeño de la Unión Europea tras Luxemburgo, Chipre y Malta, con una población que no alcanza el millón y medio de habitantes, ha sido en los últimos años objeto de atención mediática internacional por considerarlo the World’s more digital country (GREENWALD, 2018) , the first “Digital” Country (LUFKIN, 2017) o the Digital Republic (HELLER, 2017); así como uno de los referentes en el mundo académico en...

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  • DECISION - MAKING IN VIRTUAL SOFTWARE TEAMS USING CLOUD PLATFORMS

    Publication

    Software development projects are usually realized by traditional or virtual IT teams using computing clouds. Team collaboration requires decision - making regarding essential aspects of a project progress. The article concerns methods of decision – making process in the case of traditional and virtual teams’ work. The research results conducted in a group of IT specialists are presented, and to analyze their preferences in decision-making...

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  • RES - % share in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia

    Open Research Data
    open access

    The "RES in percentages" file shows the share of energy productionelectricity by source in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the years 2000 – 2022.

  • Feminidad online:¿ ni feminista ni auténtica?

    Publication

    - Year 2021

    Mucho se ha escrito sobre internet y sus múltiples y diversos impactos sobre la vida de las personas, la economía, la política o cualquier otro ámbito de la sociedad. Evidentemente, lo relacionado con los modos de expresar las relaciones de género en entornos digitales no ha quedado al margen de esta espiral analítica. De hecho, ha generado una abundante literatura que cubre múltiples subtemas, incluyendo aspectos tan diversos...

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  • Credibility of Business Operations via Internet: Customer Perspective

    Publication

    - Year 2012

    Tourism plays an important role in economy of Mediterranean countries. Year after year, more and more people spend or like to spend their vacations (and money) in the Mediterranean region. Hiring private apartments or houses by individual persons for themselves and their families becomes more and more popular way of vacation arrangement and, in the result, constitutes an important factor of the countries' incomes. Versatile and...

  • Litwa, Łotwa, Estonia wobec wyzwań globalnych

    Publication

    - Year 2005

    Obraz społeczno-politycznej i ekonomicznej aktywności Litwy, Łotwy i Estonii ujawnia dążenie państw do uniwersalizacji stosunków ekonomicznych, tj. globalnego i regionalnego zasięgu transportu, komunikacji, tworzenia międzynarodowych organizacji, współpracy naukowo-technicznej. Związane jest to, m.in. z postawami polityków, którzy dużą wagę przywiązują do spraw dotyczących zjawisk globalnych, zainteresowani są uczestnictwem w strukturach...

  • Au–Si plasmonic platforms: synthesis, structure and FDTD simulations

    Plasmonic platforms based on Au nanostructures have been successfully synthesized by directional solidification of a eutectic from Au and the substrate. In order to determine homogeneous shape and space distribution, the influence of annealing conditions and the initial thickness of the Au film on the nanostructures was analyzed. For the surface morphology studies, SEM and AFM measurements were performed. The structure of platforms...

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  • Do online reviews reveal mobile application usability and user experience? The case of WhatsApp

    The variety of hardware devices and the diversity of their users imposes new requirements and expectations on designers and developers of mobile applications (apps). While the Internet has enabled new forms of communication platform, online stores provide the ability to review apps. These informal online app reviews have become a viral form of electronic wordof-mouth (eWOM), covering a plethora of issues. In our study, we set ourselves...

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  • Internet Rzeczy - rozwiązania modelowe

    W pracy omówiono problemy projektowania i realizacji sieci typu internet rzeczy (IoT). Scharakteryzowano podstawowe cechy systemów, które pozwalają na zakwalifikowanie ich do kategorii internet rzeczy. Przedstawiono wyniki testowania małej sieci typu „zrób to sam” zaprojektowanej i wykonanej w duchu idei internetu rzeczy. Oceniono, czy udało się osiągnąć nową jakość i synergiczny efekt wynikający z wykorzystania wielu źródeł danych...

  • Literature Review on Conceptualisation of Online Consumer Engagement

    Publication

    - Handel Wewnętrzny - Year 2017

    The purpose of the current study is to develop a literature review on “online consumer engagement” (OCE). Articles from 2006 to 2016 published in the marketing journals and other related journals have been reviewed to summarise the OCE concept. Although there is not an agreed definition and conceptualisation of OCE, this study classified the concept as either behavioural or psychological within the dimensions of cognitive, emotional,...

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  • Manufacturing Data Analysis in Internet of Things/Internet of Data (IoT/IoD) Scenario

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Year 2018

    Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) has enormous benefits as it increases the rate of production, reduces errors and production waste, and streamlines manufacturing sub-systems. However, there are some new challenges related to CIM operating in the Internet of Things/Internet of Data (IoT/IoD) scenarios associated with Industry 4.0 and cyber-physical systems. The main challenge is to deal with the massive volume of data flowing...

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  • Some Security Features of Selected IoT Platforms

    Publication

    - TASK Quarterly - Year 2020

    IoT (Internet of Things) is certainly one of the leading current and future trends for processing in the current distributed world. It is changing our life and society. IoT allows new ubiquitous applications and processing, but, on the other hand, it introduces potentially serious security threats. Nowadays researchers in IoT areas should, without a doubt, consider and focus on security aspects. This paper is aimed at a high-level...

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  • Digital transformation and economic growth - DESI improvement and implementation

    The paper aims to improve the methodology of the Digital Economic and Society Index (DESI), the European Commission’s newest index to assess the development of the digital economy. In particular, we investigate whether methodological changes to the structure of DESI improve its ability to capture the digital transformation of EU economies. Using the sensitivity- based analysis, we check whether the selection of weights of individual...

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  • Why is IPv6 Deployment Important for the Internet Evolution?

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    - Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology - Year 2011

    Abstract-Replacing the IPv4 protocol with IPv6 on the Internet is currently one of the aims of the European Union policy. The main reason for this replacement is the effeteness of the addresses pool in the IPv4 protocol, which can cause serious complications in the evolution of the Internet and its adaptation in new areas, e.g., in next generation mobile telephony or the so called Internet of Things. Simultaneously, the addressing...

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  • A comprehensive review of open data platforms, prevalent technologies, and functionalities

    Publication

    - Year 2022

    Open data can play a crucial role in different sectors of the world,such as government, science, research, technology, culture, andfinance. There are several necessary measures that every organiza-tion needs to consider before opening data. There are three majorsteps to opening the data: (1) Preparation stage, and (2) launchingthe open data initiative (3) In this case, the feedback mechanismstudy such as expand and sustain stage,...

  • Application of unmanned USV surface and AUV underwater maritime platforms for the monitoring of offshore structures at sea

    The operation of offshore structures at sea requires the implementation of advanced systems for their permanent monitoring. There is a set of novel technologies that could be implemented to deliver a higher level of effective and safe operation of these systems. A possible novel solution may be the application of a new maritime unmanned (USV) surface and underwater vehicles/platforms (AUV). Application of such vehicles/platforms...

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  • Quality negotiation mechanism for e-learning platforms

    Publication

    - Year 2007

    Zarządzanie jakością w aplikacjach działających w środowiskach sieci WEB opiera się na zadaniach związanych z wykrywaniem jakości połączenia klient - serwer oraz na optymalnym przydziale zasobów wedle jakości takowego połączenia. Optymalne zarządzanie jakością zależy od wypracowanego kompromisu pomiędzy jakością łącza a jakości transportowanego łączem zasobu. Artykuł opisuje możliwy do implementacji mechanizm odpowiedzialny za...

  • Wykonanie badań wymalowań (w szczególności badań przyczepności) na konstrukcji w Narvie (Estonia) i wyjaśnienie przyczyn obserwowanych uszkodzeń

    Publication

    Dokonano oglądu wizualnego i wykonano badania normowe na wymalowaniach na obiekcie budowanej elektrowni w Narvie (Estonia). Pobrano również próbki farb stosowanych do wymalowań oraz fragment elementu konstrukcji do badań.

  • Practical Evaluation of Internet Systems' Security Mechanisms

    Publication

    A proposed Internet systems security layer with context-oriented security mechanisms reduces the risk associated with possible vulnerabilities. A metric of the system trust level is proposed, and then evaluated according to a university Internet system.

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  • Next Generation Digital

    The paper outlines the major objectives of the MENAID research project, eimed at novel architectures of digital documents. Such documents will enable reduction of information overflow and strain, a major threat to the growth of a digital society. They will be forward compatible, technology neutral and lightweight, allowing workers of network organizations to use personal devices of any type.

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  • State of the Art in Open Platforms for Collaborative Urban Design and Sharing of Resources in Districts and Cities

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    - Sustainability - Year 2021

    This work discusses recent developments in sharing economy concepts and collaborative co-design technology platforms applied in districts and cities. These developments are being driven both by new technological advances and by increased environmental awareness. The paper begins by outlining the state of the art in smart technology platforms for collaborative urban design, highlighting a number of recent examples. The case of peer-to-peer...

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  • Model of the Internet mortgage market optimization

    Publication

    The Internet mortgages are currently a fast growing market, allowing selling mortgages cheaper andfaster than in the traditional methods such as in bank departments.Given the specificity of selling mortgages in the Internet, banks try to sell more mortgages by spendingmore money on advertising and paying higher commission to the brokers selling their products. It is important tooptimise the amounts of money in both sectors (the...

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  • Audio Content and Crowdsourcing: A Subjective Quality Evaluation of Radio Programs Streamed Online

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    - Year 2023

    Radio broadcasting has been present in our lives for over 100 years. The transmission of speech and music signals accompanies us from an early age. Broadcasts provide the latest information from home and abroad. They also shape musical tastes and allow many artists to share their creativity. Modern distribution involves transmission over a number of terrestrial systems. The most popular are analog FM (Frequency Modulation) and...

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  • Youth Civic Participation in the South Baltic Region. Example of Lithuania, Poland and Sweden

    Publication

    - Year 2020

    The aim of this study was to show youth civic participation as a social inclusion element in the Southern Baltic region in need of reinforcement, based on the examples of selected municipalities from Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The authors focused on the diagnosis of key elements of youth civic engagement at local and cross-border level, taking into account the context of national youth policies and the European Union policy....

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  • Public Participation practice versus economic pressure: transformation of the Gdansk Coastal Strip

    The paper focuses on the issue of public participation in the areas that are particularly sensitive to the transformation processes based on the case study of Gdańsk Coastal Strip. Moreover the article presents the outcome of an innovative attempt at promotion of public participation introduced in university education that was built on the experiences gathered during elaboration of the pro publico bono project of the Coastal Strip...

  • Internet photogrammetry as a tool for e-learning

    Publication

    - Year 2015

    Along with Internet development, there were interactive applications which allow for remote sensing and photogrammetric analysis. An example of an application that can provide Earth images and make it possible to measure distances in these images is Google Earth. The authors, who have experience from 2001-2015 argue that it is possible and it is important to create more advanced photogrammetric network applications. In this there...

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  • Digital Gaps and Economic Inequalities in MENA Countries: An Empirical Investigation

    Publication

    - Year 2022

    This research contributes to the present state of the art by examining changes in cross-country inequalities in digital technologies deployment and economic performance. Our empirical target builds on the hypothesis that rapid global diffusion of digital technologies unequivocally leads to gradual eradication of cross-country digital gaps and cross-country inequalities in terms of deployment of ICT; the technology convergence occurs....

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  • Digital Transformation and Its Influence on Sustainable Manufacturing and Business Practices

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    - Sustainability - Year 2023

    The paper focuses on the relationship between businesses and digital transformation, and how digital transformation has changed manufacturing in several ways. Aspects like Cloud Computing, vertical and horizontal integration, data communication, and the internet have contributed to sustainable manufacturing by decentralizing supply chains. In addition, digital transformation inventions such as predictive analysis and big data analytics...

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  • The role of urban movements in the process of local spatial planning and the development of participation mechanism

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    - Miscellanea Geographica - Year 2018

    In civil societies, urban movements are one of the tools in the process of spatial governance. In Poland, urban activism is beginning to develop together with a budding participation in public life. Therefore, there is a need to assess the scope and effects of the urban movements’ actions. The aim of the study was to determine and evaluate their impact on the spatial development in three Polish cities - Poznań, Gdańsk and Gdynia, especially...

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  • Bewertung der qualität von online lernmodulen = Próba oceny jakości e-Lerningowych modułów online

    Publication

    - Year 2006

    W pracy dokonano klasyfikacji rozwiązań modułów (systemów) e-Learning wg. sposobu ich tworzenia (tj. systemy autorskie, komercyjne, otwarte, zamknięte, standardowe, niestandardowe), funkcjonalności, interaktywności, obciążania sieci. Przedstawiono również wybrane kryteria (tj. merytoryczne, dydaktyczne i multimedialne) oceny jakości modułów dostępnych online pod kątem ich wykorzystywania w systemach zdalnego nauczania. Na zakończenie...

  • Internet w procesie kształcenia studentów

    Publication

    Wirtualna rzeczywistość sieci komputerowych staje się coraz bardziej obecna w naszym życiu. Internet odgrywa rosnącą rolę w edukacji, rekrutacji, handlu, sprawowaniu władzy oraz rozrywce. Dlatego też zastanowić się trzeba, na jakie problemy napotykają wykładowcy przy tworzeniu materiałów dostępnych przez Internet oraz studenci w związku z wykorzystaniem nowoczesnych technologii do pozyskiwania informacji i wiedzy....

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  • VREA PROJECT - A DIGITAL CURATOR FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DIGITAL PERSPECTIVES FOR HERITAGE MANAGEMENT AND ENHANCEMENT

    Thinking about architectural education, one must face the challenges of the ever-changing and digital world and bear in mind the figure of the architect of the future - the curator of digital data. Nowadays the aim is to train specialists who know how to manage the production of digital products and are able to face the challenges of digital change in the field of architecture and architectural heritage management. Virtual Reality...

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