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This article describes an application proposal since the analysis till the development of a software, which presents itself as a solution to the existent management problem in the Electronics Store in the Engineering Department of University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro. The study as followed a development methodology intrinsic to the problem and to all the features associated to management systems, with the main purpose to obtain a suitable solution by means of Information Technologies capable to support the users in the management of all services and resources of the store in a way completely integrated with the information systems that are more relevant to teaching activity. The solution was developed using Web technologies, enabling an optimized channel for accessing and managing all services and products provided by the store, increasing their efficiency, organization and ability to respond to requests made by all users.

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Higher education institutions (HEI) and students are highly dependent of information systems, implemented as web applications. Students must be able to access this applications, thought accessible web interfaces, in order to perform their academic activities. This paper presents an overview of a typical set of web applications used by students and the main concerns regarding accessibility compliance. The analysis was conducted using the systems at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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The XXI Century society has developed a drive for Information and the Web, as one of the extremely important technologies of our times, represents the main channel to access it. As a result of this, one can perceive that the Web, and the inherent websites, must be accessible to all, in order to maintain the imperative social equality. Despite the legal requirements to the Portuguese Web content accessibility levels, in effect since 1999, the existent studies that focused on assessing those same levels of accessibility reported that the Portuguese websites, in their majority, were not compliant with the existent standards. In mid-2007 we started, within our research group and in partnership with both UMIC - Knowledge Society Agency and APDSI - Association for the Promotion and Development of the Information Society, a Web accessibility barometer. The goal of this barometer has been assessing the accessibility levels of the Portuguese websites, creating recommendations - for both the organizations and the civil society - towards the improvement of the referred websites, and publicly presenting the achieved results. One of the Portuguese enterprises that is adopting the accessibility standards into its public procurement platform anoGov is ANO. This company established a research project alongside UTAD University in order to achieve technical know-how and good practices that allowed them to develop accessible and usable Web content. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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This paper presents a proposal for the management, mentoring and training activities for employees of an organization. The training activities normally take place indoors; however, the nomadic life of some employees often makes difficult their training. Thus, the proposal takes into account the internal trainees and those who for various circumstances may not do so presentially. The use of heterogeneous mobile devices was further concerns the design proposal, since it is not always possible that all learners have the same type of platform, making it even more complicated if the organization allow BYOD. This proposal includes the development of two server applications, one located inside the organization and the other located in the cloud. The proposed solution will enable mobile interaction between the devices, the internal server and the server located in the cloud.

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Study and conception of systems that help to the birth of new ideas, products and solutions has an ever increasing importance. One potentially attractive way is to use exist-ent creativity techniques of proven utility to generate new ideas that help companies' competitiveness. In this arti-cle, we resume the" Creative Information System and Creative Suport Systems(CSS), by presenting a concrete architetural proposal medeated by computer by Brute Thinking implementation. The study and design of sys-tems that help the birth of new ideas, products and solu-tions are growing in importance. A potentially attractive route is to use existing techniques for creativity and proven useful to generate new ideas that help the compet-itiveness of firms. In this article, we return to the concepts of "Creative System Information" and Creative Support Systems (CSS), presenting a concrete proposal for com-puter-mediated architecture for implementing the tech-nical Brute Thinking.

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This paper is about the development of 3D simulators for supplementary instruction in professional training with complex learning tasks and material, human and economic constraints. We present a theoretical framework describing and explaining how a simulator can support the fundamental interaction dynamics in learning settings (interaction with reality, with others and with the learner himself. We describe the development of an actual 3D simulator (for installing the engine in an F-16 fighter aircraft) and present its next phases. We discuss how our theoretical framework fits and explains the development phases of a 3D simulator to meet the intended learning outcomes and how it can help in the development of simulators with similar purposes.