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Virtual Reality (VR) can be an excellent platform for collaborative work. However, standing in VR and gesturing in midair can be physically exhausting. We introduce RepliCo, a collaborative DeskVR approach focused on communication in the context of 3D content reviewing. Using an interactive surface and the world-in-miniature metaphor, it addresses common challenges in virtual collaboration, such as spatially referencing points of interest and user awareness. We conducted a user evaluation with 20 participants to assess the viability of our approach in both a large and a small environment. Results revealed that RepliCo efficiently allowed users to share points of interest in a user-friendly and physically undemanding manner. Although the larger model was identified as requiring more effort, there were few significant differences in task completion times, highlighting RepliCo's versatility.

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Virtual Reality (VR) is a powerful tool for industrial training due to its capacity to simulate realistic, risk-free environments. However, creating VR training scenarios often requires significant technical expertise and large investments, limiting the technology's adoption. This paper presents a VR training platform that empowers trainers to author, test, and deliver immersive training procedures directly within a VR environment without writing code. It also gives trainees a place to practice and learn without consequences. A key feature is the integration of Virtual Choreographies, enabling trainers to define ordered procedures, record trainee attempts, more easily understand their actions, and automatically assess performance. A user study was conducted to evaluate usability, workflow clarity, and feature effectiveness. Results indicate strong usability and comprehension for non-expert users, and confirm the potential of Virtual Choreographies to guide and evaluate procedural training. The platform represents a step toward creating accessible, customizable VR training for industrial and educational settings.

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E-commerce popularity has increased the challenges of parcel deliveries, highlighting the urgency in addressing the sustainability of the last-mile, which is considered the most ineffective part of the supply chain and a source of environmental and social issues. Although different alternative last-mile technologies have already been proposed, they all imply complex trade-offs. This study explores how synergies between delivery technologies could improve last-mile logistics. It evaluates the trade-offs between electric vans, cargo bikes, and parcel lockers, and takes into account factors such as package size, consumer requirement, and urban context. The adoption of a combined delivery strategy suggests environmental and social benefits like the mitigation of congestion and emissions while ensuring advantages for companies due to streamlined operations and offering consumers a broader range of choices.

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The advent of new technologies has led to significant changes in the field of marketing, demanding a rethinking of existing knowledge and skills. This research proposes a set of transversal curricula in digital marketing. The methodology employed included an exploratory analysis of digital marketing courses offered at universities and major online platforms, focus groups, and interviews, conducted in four countries. The countries included in the study were Finland, Poland, the Netherlands, and Portugal. The findings indicated that an introductory course and specialization blocks would be beneficial. Social media, analytics, digital advertising, search engine optimization (SEO), digital marketing strategies, web content, e-mail marketing, customer experience, landing pages, user experience, leads, conversion rate optimization, and E-commerce were identified as the key subjects of study for the introductory course in digital marketing.

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Technological evolution is very present in today’s world. The Internet of Everything (IoE) is one of the next steps in this evolution. WordPress is a website-building tool that is used today to its minimum capability. The main problem is how to make WordPress customizable and reliable to support device networking and communication. This can be done by implementing a new architecture that supports WordPress as a powerful tool, allowing for scalability and maintenance. The adoption of a recent trend known as DevOps is an important step in creating and developing a strong website and ensuring its integration with multiple devices. It emphasizes continuous testing, delivery, and integration. This article is based on a literature review to justify using micro-services architecture and the DevOps approach to build a reliable and robust working tool in WordPress that can be part of the IoE. © ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2025.

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Leveraging the capabilities of Knowledge Distillation (KD) strategies, we devise a strategy to fight the recent retraction of face recognition datasets. Given a pretrained Teacher model trained on a real dataset, we show that carefully utilising synthetic datasets, or a mix between real and synthetic datasets to distil knowledge from this teacher to smaller students can yield surprising results. In this sense, we trained 33 different models with and without KD, on different datasets, with different architectures and losses. And our findings are consistent, using KD leads to performance gains across all ethnicities and decreased bias. In addition, it helps to mitigate the performance gap between real and synthetic datasets. This approach addresses the limitations of synthetic data training, improving both the accuracy and fairness of face recognition models.