Relevancia de los contenidos de Expresión Corporal por parte de los alumnos de Grado en Ciencias del Deporte

La presente investigación aborda el grado de relevancia con que los alumnos del grado en Ciencias del Deporte perciben los contenidos de Expresión Corporal. El objeto principal es el de obtener la visión de los alumnos de una materia que en muchas ocasiones aún resulta novedosa para ellos. Por una parte nos permite obtener información sobre si los contenidos que se imparten en ella son valorados o considerados como relevantes dentro de su formación académica, es decir, si el aprendizaje producido resulta significativo. Pero a la vez resulta una herramienta clave en el desarrollo crítico del alumnado dentro del enfoque deliberativo. La principal conclusión obtenida muestra que todos los contenidos propuestos son valorados positivamente en cuanto a relevancia para el alumnado. Si bien se obtienen también una serie de matizaciones a esta afirmación.

Network convergence and QoS for future multimedia services in the VISION project

The emerging use of real-time 3D-based multimedia applications imposes strict quality of service (QoS) requirements on both access and core networks. These requirements and their impact to provide end-to-end 3D videoconferencing services have been studied within the Spanish-funded VISION project, where different scenarios were implemented showing an agile stereoscopic video call that might be offered to the general public in the near future. In view of the requirements, we designed an integrated access and core converged network architecture which provides the requested QoS to end-to-end IP sessions. Novel functional blocks are proposed to control core optical networks, the functionality of the standard ones is redefined, and the signaling improved to better meet the requirements of future multimedia services. An experimental test-bed to assess the feasibility of the solution was also deployed. In such test-bed, set-up and release of end-to-end sessions meeting specific QoS requirements are shown and the impact of QoS degradation in terms of the user perceived quality degradation is quantified. In addition, scalability results show that the proposed signaling architecture is able to cope with large number of requests introducing almost negligible delay.