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Co-operation as a central element of cultural tourism
No full textCurrent social challenges and declining public funds are bringing culture practitioners and local communities closer together. The culturally interesting synergy effects of co-operative efforts are increasingly encouraging those working in the culture sector to pull together. The result is an alternating process of competition and co-operation reflected in the term ‘co-opetition’ (Voesgen 2009). Brandenburger and Nalebuff (2009) even view ‘co-operative competition’ as the most important success strategy for companies. Not only are co-operative relations among cultural organisations and cultural projects growing, but there is also more collaboration between culture and industry, culture and social organisations, and teamwork in many other configurations. One field that would be unthinkable without co-operation is cultural tourism (for more detailed analysis see Pröbstle 2011a, 2011b, 2011c). According to the German Tourist Association (DTV) ‘culture is the most important attraction factor’ for city tourists (DTV 2006: 13). It is therefore not surprising that the public sector, local tourist organisations and commercial tourist service providers in Germany (such as cultural tourism specialist Studiosus), have recently been relying on the pulling power of cultural tourism. Cultural organisations are also targeting ‘cultural tourists’. Cultural tourism can strengthen cultural enterprises both by increasing the number of visitors, and by profiling culture as an image and locality factor (Hausmann 2002: 50; Klein 2007: 284). The marriage of culture and tourism is seldom smooth, however. Critics argue that private tourist companies and cultural organisations are unable to speak the same language (cf. McKercher and Du Cros 2002: 14; Schwark 1996: 121; Wolber 1999: 140). However, Buri (2009a, 2009b) argues that there is some convergence between these apparently contrasting organisations. Regardless of one’s position, it is clear that no form of tourism can exist without co-operation. The need for teamwork in (cultural) tourism is rooted in the nature of tourism products. The tourist does not judge the quality of the individual services consumed, but rather the overall experience. The creation of experiences requires a co-ordinating mechanism (among others Freyer 2007: 96ff.; Steingrube 2003: 441; Stolpmann 2007: 24). However, there are many obstacles to co-operation, including rigid organisation structures and cultures, competing interest groups, and political issues (Steingrube 2003: 451f.). It is clear that culture and tourism providers often have different aims, attitudes and procedures, although this is not a problem specific to cultural tourism. The tourist system generally constitutes a pot pourri of unequal partners, who have no alternative but to work together owing to the particular quality of tourism as a product
Extending the Linked Data Cloud with Multilingual Lexical Linked Data
No full textA lot of information that is already available on the Web, or retrieved from local information sys-tems and social networks, is structured in data silos that are not semantically related. Semantic technologies make it apparent that the use of typed links that directly express their relations are an advantage for every application that can reuse the incorporated knowledge about the data. For this reason, data integration, through reengineering (e.g., triplify) or querying (e.g., D2R), is an important task in order to make information available for everyone. Thus, in order to build a semantic map of the data, we need knowledge about data items itself and the relation between heterogeneous data items. Here we present our work of providing Lexical Linked Data (LLD) through a meta-model that contains all the resources and gives the possibility to retrieve and navigate them from different per-spectives. After giving the definition of Lexical Linked Data, we describe the existing datasets we collected and the new datasets we included. Here we describe their format and show some use cases where we link lexical data, and show how to reuse and inference semantic data de-rived from lexical data. Different lexical resources (MultiWordNet, EuroWordNet, MEMODATA Lexicon, the Hamburg Methaphor Data-base) are connected to each other towards an Integrated Vocabulary for LLD that we evaluate and present
Die DPG-Praxis-Studie
No full textAlle psychotherapeutischen Verfahren müssen sich wissenschaftlicher Evaluation unterziehen. Wissenschaftliche Nutzennachweise sind Voraussetzung sowohl für die Anerkennung als wissenschaftliches Psychotherapieverfahren wie auch für die sozialrechtliche Zulassung und deren Erhalt. Zurzeit werden die Richtlinienpsychotherapieverfahren (Verhaltenstherapie sowie psychoanalytisch begründete Verfahren) vom Gemeinsamen Bundesausschuss bezüglich „des indikationsbezogenen Nutzens, der medizinischen Notwendigkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit“ überprüft.
Die DPG-Praxis-Studie verfolgt im Wesentlichen zwei Ziele: 1) Eine groß angelegte naturalistische Studie zur Überprüfung der Effektivität, Nachhaltigkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit psychoanalytisch begründeter Psychotherapie; 2) Schaffung eines Rahmens, innerhalb dessen einzelne psychoanalytische Institute, Mitglieder, Kandidaten oder Gruppen auch zusätzliche Daten erheben und entsprechend eigene Fragestellungen bearbeiten können.
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt den Hintergrund, die Hauptfragestellungen sowie den Aufbau und das Design der DPG-Praxis-Studie im Hinblick auf die Evaluationsfragestellung.All psychotherapeutic methods must be scientifically evaluated. Empirical evaluation of evidence is a prerequisite for acceptance as scientific psychotherapy as well as for payment by health insurance. Currently the psychotherapy methods accepted within the German health system (behavioural therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and analytic psychotherapy) are reviewed by a governmental evaluation committee concerning evidence, necessity and cost-effectiveness.
The DPG practice study has basically two aims: 1) to conduct a large naturalistic study to investigate effectiveness, sustainability and economic aspects of psychodynamic and analytic psychotherapy and 2) to offer a framework for psychoanalytic institutes, members, candidates or groups to realize own research ideas by collecting additional data within the study.
The present article describes the background, main research questions, structure and design of the DPG practice study with regard to the evaluation questions
Valeo
No full textIn current healthcare research, pain logs are an important means to measure the impact of medication and to detect pain patterns. However, the entry of textual pain data may be negatively reinforcing, due to its character of direct confrontation with one's pain, potentially leading to a higher pain awareness. This paper introduces valeo, a new form of a tactile pain log, which is based on a vibrotactile, pressure- and tilt-sensitive device. Future iterations will also include body part recognition. By squeezing it close to one's own body, the subjective intensity of a local pain is manifested in the device. Via a shove gesture, it is then transmitted to a docking station. Advantageously, the pain data is covert and conceptually alienated from the patient's body, which may support a possible relief. A proof-of-concept prototype and a user study indicate that our concept is perceived as convenient and reduces negative conditioning
Supporting architecture education using the MACE system
No full textToday, digital learning resources in architecture are spread over a growing number of repositories world-wide. Students of architecture face increasing problems finding and being aware of appropriate learning resources they need within their collaborative and/or exploratory learning scenarios. The Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe (MACE) system addresses these issues by intelligently aggregating and linking information about learning resources from various repositories. We show how, by establishing explicit relations between the learning resources and by adding community features, students are supported in their learning activities. First experiments indicate that the chosen approach improves the results students can achieve in their studies
Living interfaces
No full textIn this paper, we present a novel type of persuasive home appliance: A thrifty water faucet. Through a servo motor construction, it is enabled to move and behave in life-like manners and to step into dialogue with the user. For example about water consumption or hygiene. We sought to research the reactions of users to such an appliance, alongside possible implications for the design of future human-machine interfaces.
This project is part of a larger series of experiments in the Living Interfaces project, exploring ways in which reduced and abstract life-like movements can be beneficial for Human-Machine Interaction
Elastic Lists for Facet Browsing and Resource Analysis in the Enterprise
No full textInformation management and content governance in large corporations is an ongoing challenge. As a case study, we present the adaptation of the elastic lists facet browser for browsing and analysing large resource collections in an intranet of a large telecommunication corporation. The application allows users to explore resource aggregations over multiple classification schemata in parallel, enabling not only personalized information access, but also improved understanding of content distributions, as well as trend analysis and target tracking. We further present empirical usability results of a first prototype from questionnaires and eye tracking studies
Spoken Words
No full textWriting is a predominantly visual task. In the following, we describe a system that adds a new modality to computer-supported text editing: Listening with closed eyes.
We present a prototype, for which we combined a text-to-speech software, Microsoft Word and a face tracking system. It reads out the current sentence in Microsoft Word as soon as the user closes both eyes.
In this paper we discuss further details of the concept and its background, describe the implementation of the prototype and disclose first user testing results, before we conclude our findings with an outlook on future research
Erwerb pragmatischer Fähigkeiten und mögliche Störungen (im Kindesalter)
No full textSeit im Zuge der kognitiven Wende in der Psychologie vormals behavioristisch erklärte Phänomene kognitivistisch untermauert wurden (z. B. Bandura 1965; Chomsky 1959), hat sich auch in der Linguistik eine Bewegung weg von der Universalgrammatik Noam Chomskys (1965) hin zu einer sozial-kognitiv erklärten (vgl. Langacker 1987; Goldberg 2006) und gebrauchsbasierten (vgl. Tomasello 2003) Konstruktionsgrammatik als sprachsystematisches Modell etabliert. Infolgedessen widmeten sich viele Autoren der Frage, wie Kinder Sprache und vor allem den pragmatisch angemessenen Gebrauch von Sprache erwerben (vgl. Tomasello 2008) – wenn sie sich nicht aufgrund einer angeborenen language faculty (vgl. Hauser et al. 2002) entwickelt