Viktor Dmitriyev

Using virtual laboratories in teaching natural sciences: An example of physics courses in university

Thinking outside of the box is an important part of education. However, using innovative teaching methods in education can be very challenging for educators. They are directly involved into a teaching process and upcoming changes should be well planned and the impact of the introduced innovations/changes should be estimated in advance. Innovations can be also challenging for a management part of a particular higher education institution, whose major goal is to organize a smooth learning process. Current work presents software empowered innovation in the domain of teaching physics at universities. Authors demonstrate how particular software artefacts could be possible integrated into existing curriculum in order to help students at universities in mastering particular natural science subject (e.g., “Physics‐1,” “Physics‐2”). Software is based on the ideas of virtual laboratories, whether implementation is based on Microsoft. NET XNA Framework and 3D modeling. Paper shows that the introduction of modern information and computer technologies along with the traditional forms of education are significantly enhancing teaching experience and improving education quality.

A framework along with guidelines for designing secure mobile enterprise applications

Nowadays enterprises demand mobility and flexibility of their employees as inevitable success factors. Integrating mobile devices like smartphones and tablets into an enterprise gives employees possibilities to work more productively. However, integrating mobile devices and applications has also brought new security challenges and risks. Despite all advantages of mobility, many organizations continue to avoid it due to security issues. Mobile devices are exposed to a wide range of threats that have to be countered. Simply porting information security standards from workstations, notebooks, and server domains to mobile devices is unlikely to be effective. Thus, from enterprise point of view, security levels are not clear on mobile devices. Generally, a high level of security might be reached on mobile devices by setting a high level of restrictions. On the other hand, this might minimize user acceptance and satisfaction factors. In this research, risk analysis with focus on mobile devices is conducted and a framework for designing secure mobile enterprise applications (MEAs) is developed and presented along with step-by-step guidelines. This research mainly supports enterprises in decision-making process during designing MEAs and helping developers to understand the mobile security issues and classify MEAs into security levels. Moreover, security transparency provided by the framework promotes a trustworthy usage of mobile devices in business sector.

The web portal “Active longevity of Kazakhstan population”: Actuality, objectives, functions and preliminary results

Increasing the duration of active life is one of the most important problems in modern gerontology in the world, including Kazakhstan. First, the solution of these problems is associated with using information and communication technologies (ICT). Gerontological RK portal, which has no analogues in countries of the former USSR, will include information on major aspects of the aging in RK. Portal will be a platform for exchange of experiences, publishing of research results, for getting generalized and personalized information. This paper describes the main elements of the portal and presents preliminary results of frequency occurrence analysis of cardiovascular diseases in elderly age and income level of the respondent on the basis of epidemiological screening, performed on the basis of data collected on our site.

Implementing physics virtual laboratory in 3D: An example of Atwood machine

Intensive usage of an information and communication technology (ICT) in an education process is a promising and rapidly evolving topic or exploration. One of the ways, how a particular ICT can be used for teaching is a creation of specialized software applications, which are able to demonstrate physical or chemical process to a students on very granular level. Current work describes an implementation of such specialized software applications primary dedicated to enhance experience in teaching physics subject. The work includes theoretical foundation of a physics experiment, in particular a description of Atwoods machine, and the technological foundation that lead to creation of virtual laboratory work for described physics experiment. Besides describing technological foundation, its also demonstrates software implementations process in details.

3D Physics Virtual Laboratory as a Teaching Platform

Current work demonstrates an usage of the 3D Physics Virtual Laboratory within the teaching process of the students who are getting their bachelor degrees at a technical universities. The main advantages of presented software package is an utilization of the complete simulation of the real world physics in an virtual environment. Additional advantage of work is that its flexibility-by-design. The flexibility of the 3D Physics Virtual Laboratory software package is achieved through the completed development loop adapted under agile methodology. The work also shows the overall structure of the components within the software package, technological foundation and description of the laboratory. The Microsoft .NET with its framework .NET XNA were used as an software foundation for building core elements of the current 3D Physics Virtual Laboratory.

Research Topic Identification

The current chapter explains challenging task in identifying the most suitable way to establish a research topic. The work demonstrates how to follow a proper research methodology in information systems. It explains what process of a research is all about and why it’s important to follow a proper research approach in order to successfully reach approached research goals. The chapter analyses variety of existing research methodologies in order to provide researcher with an overview of available within the field of information systems research methodologies.

Collecting context data generated by mobile devices

Issues related to a properly collection, management and analysis of data are the very first ones to be solved while working with any data source. Especially, its true for the data sources, which have a property to grow very rapidly and without any clear structure underneath, and such behavior is very typical for the data generated by mobile devices. Thus, current work suggest an principle architecture design of a mobile software platform whose main goal is to collect, store and provide further access to the mobile context data generated mainly by mobile devices such as smartphones.