The Computer Aided Language Learning - Reading Practice project has adopted the TARGET Serious Game component. This is a collaborative project between Portuguese three research partners (two universities and one research institute) and Carnegie Mellon University in the USA. The aim of the project is to develop a tutoring system for teaching the Portuguese langugage for either native or foreign speakers through the execution of actions within a particular context. The TARGET Serious Game provides the situated context upon which the REAP tutoring system is built upon. A paper of the first stage of the work was presented at the SGDA conference held in Lisbon on the 19th September. For more details click here

A forthcoming printed article about TARGET will be published in IRT3000 in the August edition of Slovenia’s most relevant engineering magazine. The focus of the magazine is mechanical engineering, ICT and other technologies related to the fields of mechanical and construction engineering. The media is well positioned at national level, being well known amongst the engineers and the companies from the field.

The TARGET press release is available on the IRT3000 website:

http://www.irt3000.si/novice/?id=185

On the 29th of June, 2011, TARGET featured on Portuguese National Television on the programme designated Sociedade Civil broadcasted by RTP2, which holds 5-7% of the Portuguese speaking audience worldwide. TARGET was presented by Prof. Joao Pereira (INESC-ID) as a large European project focused on developing a rapid competence development platform, using the Stakeholder Management scenario as an illustration.

The full interview can be found between minutes 66:34 e 71:27 at the following url:
http://ww1.rtp.pt/programas-rtp/index.php?p_id=23283&c_id=1&dif=tv&idpod=58895

INESC-ID has identified a need in the market place for supporting virtual offices, which provide enterprises (in particular SMEs) with interactive social spaces where people come together to work irrespective of their geographic distance. As such, INESC-ID developed the Virtual Office project that extends the TARGET platform with additional functionality to support work practices in enterprises. The result of the work was the basis of an interview on TVNet, the first Portuguese Internet TV channel with SAPO that is ranked as the 5th website in Portugal with highest volume of Internet Traffic (according to Alexa)

The clip below is provided as-is from the TVNET channel, which includes some initial advertisement. The language used is Portuguese.