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Unveiling gender bias in LLM-generated hero and heroine narratives.
No full textThis article investigates gender bias in narratives generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) through a two-phase study. Building on our existing work in narrative generation, we employ a structured methodology to analyze the influence of protagonist gender on both the generation and classification of fictional stories. In Phase 1, factual narratives were generated using six LLMs, guided by predefined narrative structures (Hero's Journey and Heroine's Journey). Gender bias was quantified through specialized metrics and statistical analyses, revealing significant disparities in protagonist gender distribution and associations with narrative archetypes. In Phase 2, counterfactual narratives were constructed by altering the protagonists’ genders while preserving all other narrative elements. These narratives were then classified by the same LLMs to assess how gender influences their interpretation of narrative structures. Results indicate that LLMs exhibit difficulty in disentangling the protagonist's gender from the narrative structure, often using gender as a heuristic to classify stories. Male protagonists in emotionally driven narratives were frequently misclassified as following the Heroine's Journey, while female protagonists in logic-driven conflicts were misclassified as adhering to the Hero's Journey. These findings provide empirical evidence of embedded gender biases in LLM-generated narratives, highlighting the need for bias mitigation strategies in AI-driven storytelling to promote diversity and inclusivity in computational narrative generation.</p
Unlocking sustainable last mile deliveries through interventions in the pre-delivery stage.
No full textTechnological innovations such as parcel lockers can only contribute to reducing the negative impact of last mile logistics on people, planet and profit outcomes if consumers adopt them. Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) as a theoretical lens, the purpose of this study was to design effective interventions in the pre-delivery stage that stimulated consumers to choose to use parcel lockers, focusing on incentives and actions that online retailers and logistic service providers can easily implement. A vignette-based experiment was used to examine the impact of providing consumers with information about sustainability, information about parcel lockers and information about distance to nearest parcel locker on their choice to use a parcel locker instead of receiving their package at home. The originality of the study is twofold. The role of geographical context which is oftentimes overlooked was examined explicitly in this study by conducting the study with participants from the Netherlands and Lithuania. The present study used causal mediation analysis to study the combined effects of interventions and previous experience with parcel lockers through the UTAUT constructs. The findings showed that providing information about sustainability and information about the distance to the nearest parcel locker were effective interventions, however the effect of distance was country specific. Causal mediation analysis showed that familiarity with parcel lockers was positively associated with the choice to use parcel lockers by increasing perceived ease of use, expected performance, and reducing perceived risk.</p
Eurocentrism
No full textThis encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and updated source of reference in tourism research and practice. It covers both traditional and emerging concepts and terms and is fully international in its scope. Some 769 entries by 871 internationally renowned experts from 124 countries provide a definitive access to the knowledge of tourism and its related fields. Users will find reliable and up-to-date definitions and explanations of the key terms of tourism in this reference book. Tourism is the largest industry in the world and is the main source of income for many countries. With the practical impact of worldwide tourism and the growing number of academic programs and institutions devoted to its education and research, this encyclopedia is the epicenter of this emerging and developing discipline.</p
Connecting the (distant) Dots: From design to automated foresight, through design futures.
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Unlocking sustainable last mile deliveries through interventions in the pre-delivery stage.
No full textTechnological innovations such as parcel lockers can only contribute to reducing the negative impact of last mile logistics on people, planet and profit outcomes if consumers adopt them. Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) as a theoretical lens, the purpose of this study was to design effective interventions in the pre-delivery stage that stimulated consumers to choose to use parcel lockers, focusing on incentives and actions that online retailers and logistic service providers can easily implement. A vignette-based experiment was used to examine the impact of providing consumers with information about sustainability, information about parcel lockers and information about distance to nearest parcel locker on their choice to use a parcel locker instead of receiving their package at home. The originality of the study is twofold. The role of geographical context which is oftentimes overlooked was examined explicitly in this study by conducting the study with participants from the Netherlands and Lithuania. The present study used causal mediation analysis to study the combined effects of interventions and previous experience with parcel lockers through the UTAUT constructs. The findings showed that providing information about sustainability and information about the distance to the nearest parcel locker were effective interventions, however the effect of distance was country specific. Causal mediation analysis showed that familiarity with parcel lockers was positively associated with the choice to use parcel lockers by increasing perceived ease of use, expected performance, and reducing perceived risk.</p
Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest.
No full textAttending to the broader wellbeing debates, this study examines the interplay between forest-based tourism practices and sustainability. It does so by building on Max Weber’s notion of disenchantment of the world to explore how planetary wellbeing can be cultivated through the commercial practice of forest bathing. In positioning the study within the Serbian context, we build on feminist new materialist ideas to explore the ways in which broken ties between postmodern humans and forests as our primordial home can be reclaimed through this tourism practice. Using the empirical data collected during two forest tours, we take the relational approach in our analysis of the meanings the forest tour attendees ascribed to their experiences. In extending scholarly understandings of the notion of sustainability, we discuss the ways of achieving planetary wellbeing through forest bathing and the potential of more-than-human entanglements to re-enchant the world. To conclude, we discreetly illuminate one way of reconceiving the idea of enchantment and encourage rethinking our everyday and tourist practices in disenchanted Anthropocene.</p