Virtual reality has shifted over the last 20 years from the academic and industrial world to the playful and general public sectors, thus putting the concept of immersion at the forefront. The advent of digital natives in the marketplace, the widespread use of accessible and easy-to-use material, th...

Paper documents can be ordered at http://www.utc.fr/tice2004/commande_actes_tice2004.doc We present a new approach to question and answer systems in this article. Q & A systems have proven to be effective by adding additional information found on the web to that available in their databases. To...

The fountain woman is a marginalised and fanciful female figure for several centuries. Due to the invisibility of the body, the female genital system and more specifically the clitoris since the 18th century, the figure of the fountain woman is struggling to assert itself as a common figure for all...

We propose in this article a new interpretation of the Declaration of ignorance made by Socrates. On the basis of the platonician doctrine that there is only one science and the representation of the philosophsopher as an intermediary between man and god, we suggest attributing an intermediate level...

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The information system is becoming the hub for steering organisations facing a complex environment. The informational dimension of the various activities, the strategic nature of information, the involvement of stakeholders, the central question of organisations’ remembrance, the impact of digital t...

There is an intensive growth of sociotechnical tools which are helpful for various tasks. These tools are becoming more and more visual, semiotic, graphic in contrast to written texts. A particularly appropriate domain for their use is individual or collaborative design. In the context of a project,...

The Encyclopaedia of Enlightenments includes all the conceptual elements for renewing the genus encyclopaedic outside the book. In particular, I think of the concepts of viewpoint and referrals defined in the Prospectus and the Publishers’ Preliminary Speech, with references from one article to anot...

Focusing on the relations between the fabrication processes of objets and their uses, The Manufactured Series is a choreographic project conceived by Fabrice Mazliah which aims to stage the encounter between two actors: a performer and a manufactured object. Addressing one duet from the series featu...

International audience Data warehouses and Online Analysis Processing (OLAP) have acknowledged and efficient solutions for helping in the decision-making process. Through OLAP operators, online analysis enables the decision-maker to navigate and view data represented in a multidimensional manner. Bu...

"The mastery of writing is a central objective of compulsory education, as it is essential for personal and social development. However, the teacher’s representation does not correspond to its expert implementation, making her teaching unproductive. This research was carried out with a view to givin...

L'actualité de notre temps désigne la violence comme un enjeu majeur de l'action comme de la réflexion. Cette violence alimente avec plus ou moins d'intérêt, de pertinence et d'efficacité, et avec des objectifs très divers, nombre d'enquêtes, de rapports et de discours, politiques et journalistiques...

"Michel Meyer writes not only a story of theatre, but a story of our civilisation. If the scene is the place where a society can see and think, there are times without any questioning, that is to say, periods without theatre, and periods of intense questioning, that is to say, periods of great theat...

National audience in recent years has adopted a variety of forms and is geared towards massive education (Massive Open Online Courses, first years of medicine, etc.) and diagnostic evaluation. The resulting mass of output creates a need for a computer-aided assessment system. The need for a detailed...

Language is not only a mater of communication or description, it’s also representations in the recipient’s mind. It generates an environment of knowledges, and modifies symbols. There is a switchover comes from the descriptive function to a creative one. Institutions build realities too. Causality i...

This compendium, published in 2007, offers a selection of communications that were presented at a colloquium on citizen science organised by CRESAL in January 2005. As stated in the preface drafted by the three coordinators, the aim of this book is to rebalance the usual representation in naturalist...

in order to raise public awareness of the preservation of the marine environment, the Marche Naturel Park de l’Estuaire de la Gironde et de la Mer des Pertuis and the municipality of Aix wanted to exploit the wealth of their underwater areas, which had hitherto been little known to the public. In or...

The decisive role of scientific knowledge in social life today makes a philosophical reflection on how this knowledge is built and the criteria under which it can claim to be an objective representation of real life essential. What is science? How do the assumptions and theories of which it is compo...

The biography of Juan Díez de la Calle, clerk of the Secretariat of New Spain of the Council of the Indies from 1624 to 1662, contributes to our knowledge of how a composite monarchy succeeded in governing and preserving its American territories over three centuries. First, observing this modest, in...

The objective of our work is to design a theoretical and methodological framework enabling decision support within a model of knowledge representation, illustrated by a case study from the cereal industry.The specific scope considered is the definition of food quality, for which we must consider dif...

national audience since centuries, the architect has become accustomed to working with drawings. He consults maps, takes photographs, crosses ideas that he formalises on paper. Nowadays, films and audiovisual material of all kinds show that the atmosphere of a place is very well suggested by sound e...

This study looks at how the “Discussion à Visée Démocratique et philosophique” (DVDP) tool is transformed by its users into an instrument throughout situations. A comparative analysis of the practices of a rather innovative facilitator and an expert moderator reveals three crucial elements of time r...

This thesis is set within the context of Accordys, a knowledge engineering project aiming at providing a case-based reasoning system for fetopathology, i.e. the medical domain studying rare diseases and dysmorphia of fetuses. The project is based on a corpus of french fetal exam reports. This materi...

The forest is the center of many interests that fuel the debates of our society. These debates are particularly exacerbated since the french " Grenelle de l'Environnement " in 2008. Among the various expectations, forest produce wood that is the subject of attentions, both by an increased demand for...

The technological development of recent years has led to the democratisation of space data. For example, applications such as online mapping and SOLAPs that provide access to these data have emerged. Unfortunately, these applications are very limited from a map point of view as they do not allow for...