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Analyze the Gamification Application User Target Group and Formulate Design Strategies for Cultural Tourism: Case Study of Huizhou
Full text link In the era of digital tourism, integrating gamified interactive entertainment with traditional tourism has enhanced the cultural tourism experience. This study explores tourists’ diverse needs for cultural tourism gamification in Huizhou through precise user research, aiming to attract and maintain user participation and provide a scientific basis for developing such applications. The research objectives are to understand users’ needs and expectations for Huizhou’s cultural tourism gamified applications and to clarify target user groups for formulating targeted gamification strategies. Based on user-centered design principles, researchers interviewed and observed tourists in tourist attractions (N = 30) and distributed and collected valid questionnaires (N = 514). The study used the MDA framework to conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses of tourists’ concerns, experiences, functional needs, and artistic style preferences. Results indicate that target users are mainly digital native self-guided tourists, with 81.12% showing high interest in gamified cultural tourism applications, compared to 28.69% of non-digital natives. Tourists expect apps to provide useful information features to enhance their travel experience, particularly by providing detailed and informative explanations of attractions. Additionally, they are concerned with the application’s ease of use and privacy protection. Aesthetically, Chinese line-drawing cartoon styles and travel visual experiences are favored. The proposed gamification strategy balances education, entertainment, and practicality to improve user engagement and experience. These findings offer crucial insights for developers and provide precise guidance for market positioning and product design strategies.
Keywords: Cultural Tourism, Gamification Application, Design Strategies, User-Centered Design, MDA Gamification Desig
Analysis on “The Spirit of the Prosperous Tang Dynasty” and “Picturesense” of Frontier Fortress Poetry in the Prosperous Tang Dynasty
No full text Nowadays, contemporary Chinese people lack understanding and memory of the connotation of frontier fortress poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and its cultural value and significance have not been fully utilized. The purpose of this research is to establish the correctness of the author’s visualization of frontier fortress poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty as a communication method of aesthetic education by interpreting the “picture sense” of frontier fortress poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and “the spirit in the prosperous Tang Dynasty” contained in them, and to sort out the theoretical research framework for continuing to study frontier fortress poetry of the prosperous Tang Dynasty in the future. This study will analyze the relevant literature of key elements such as the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Tang poetry, and frontier fortress poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, analyze the historical development of frontier fortress poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, find out the factors that promoted its prosperity and development, and then analyze the typical cases of “picture sense” in frontier fortress poetry, and clarify that the concept of “painting in poetry” has been innovated and developed in frontier fortress poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Through the above analysis, it is deduced that “the spirit in the prosperous Tang Dynasty”, “Literary Origin” and “Life Experience of frontier fortress Poets” are the main factors constituting the vigorous development of Sheng Tang frontier fortress poetry and it is established that “the spirit in the prosperous Tang Dynasty” of the frontier fortress poetry is of great value to contemporary times. In the end, it is concluded that it is necessary for relevant institutions to enhance their cultural self-confidence and patriotism by promoting frontier fortress poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Keywords: Tang Poetry, Frontier Fortress Poetry in the Prosperous Tang Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Picture Sense, Spirit of the Prosperous Tang Dynast
A New Perspective on Snowboarding: An In-depth Exploration of Beginner Education Experiences
Full text link This research explores the educational experiences of snowboarding beginners, focusing on identifying the key challenges they encounter and evaluating the effectiveness of existing instructional resources. Employing a mixed-method approach, this study investigates the learning processes of snowboarding beginners through field observations at two ski resorts in China and Thailand, in-depth interviews with three instructors, two ski resort managers, and 10 snowboarders, and a survey of 450 participants from which 429 responses were deemed valid. The aim is to shed light on the nuanced learning experiences of novice snowboarders. The comprehensive methodology provides a rich dataset for understanding the complexities of beginner experiences in snowboarding education. The findings reveal significant gaps in safety awareness and underscore the necessity for more cost-effective learning strategies. By integrating emerging technologies such as virtual reality, this study proposes innovative solutions to enhance the learning experience, making it more engaging and financially accessible. The research contributes to the academic discourse on physical education and technology’s role in sports training, offering valuable insights for educators and policymakers to improve snowboarding instruction, focusing on safety, affordability, and learner engagement. This abstract encapsulates the essence of the paper, providing a clear overview of the study’s objectives, methods, key findings, and implications for future research and practical application in the field of snowboarding education.
Keywords: Snowboarding Beginners, Education Experiences, Learning Strategies, Flexible Learning, Affordabilit
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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