Interesting Experience Research Articles

Can Urban Forest Settings Evoke Positive Emotion? Evidence on Facial Expressions and Detection of Driving Factors

There is increasing interest in experiences of urban forests because relevant studies have revealed that forest settings can promote mental well-being. The mental response to a forest experience can be evaluated by facial expressions, but relevant knowledge is limited at large geographical scales. In this study, a dataset of 2824 photos, detailing the evaluated age (toddler, youth, middle-age, and senior citizen) and gender of urban forest visitors, was collected from Sina Weibo (a social media application similar to Twitter in China) between 1–7 October 2018, in 12 randomly chosen cities in China. Happy and sad expressions were rated as scores by FireFACE software V1.0, and the positive response index (PRI) was calculated by subtracting sad scores from happy scores. Regional environmental factors were collected to detect driving forces using regression analyses. Happy scores were higher in forests than in urban settings, while sad scores for toddlers were lower in forests than in promenades and squares. Females showed more positive emotional expressions than males. Increases in happy scores were driven by the increase of daily minimum temperature; while PRI declined with increases in latitude. Overall, an urban forest experience can evoke positive emotions, which is likely due to comfortable feelings in warm temperatures.

Aporte de las competencias investigativas a la integración de saberes curriculares en el escenario de aprendizaje del Taller de Diseño Arquitectónico

Orientado a comprender la significación de las competencias investigativas para la integración de saberes curriculares en el Taller de Diseño Arquitectónico (TDA), se desarrolló este estudio desde el enfoque Fenomenológico Hermenéutico Pedagógico de Van Manen (2003), centrando el interés en experiencias vividas por estudiantes y profesores de Arquitectura, con apoyo en referenciales teóricos. A partir de entrevistas en profundidad, analizando y triangulando datos con aportes teóricos, se realizaron interpretaciones intersubjetivas, emergiendo las categorías: procesos investigativos, procesos integradores de saberes, visión del TDA, rol del profesor, que posibilitaron la comprensión de la relevancia de las competencias investigativas, a través de procesos, prácticas y actitudes para la investigación, estas últimas de elevada significación, en tanto que posibilitan el entendimiento, desarrollo y eficiencia del proceso de diseño como resultante de integrar saberes curriculares. Se elaboró una aproximación teorética del aporte de estas competencias para la integración de saberes curriculares en el TDA.

The Effects of Holiday Leisure Travel on Subjective Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Experience Sharing

Despite growing interest in experience sharing among leisure travelers, there is still limited research concerning the role of travel experience sharing on leisure traveler’s life satisfaction. The main objective of this research is to test the moderation effects of experience sharing during and after leisure travel on the bottom-up spillover process of tourists’ leisure travel satisfaction–life satisfaction hierarchy. The positive effect of holiday trip motivation fulfillment on overall holiday trip satisfaction is hypothesized to be amplified by on-site experience sharing (e.g., uploading holiday pictures or videos to social media platforms while traveling). Also, the positive effect of holiday trip satisfaction on holiday travelers’ subjective well-being is hypothesized to be amplified by posttrip experience sharing (e.g., publishing blog posts or travel reports online post trip). We used data from a large-scale social survey in Germany (N = 2,198) and the results confirmed the hypotheses. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

Why enter the church on holiday? Tourist encounters with the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome

ABSTRACT The tourist is constantly seeking out new experiences, and there is a growing interest in experiences at religious sites. This article examines tourists’ church experience, and what meaning it gives, and what motivates tourists to visit a church on their holiday. With a particular focus on the individual’s experience creation, the article looks into the tourist’s personal experience inside a church, as manifested in a context characterized through religion and tourism. This study is based on data collected through interviews with 15 visitors to the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome. The findings demonstrate tourists’ ability to block out the presence of other people, and their emphasis on finding inner peace. While the church is highlighted as a kind of sanctuary for reflection, where regaining harmony is mentioned as one of the most meaningful aspects of the experience, religion as a driving force is largely absent from the data. The findings of this study provide new knowledge with regard to tourists’ church experiences, and provide insight into the individual meaning making involved. The findings also show the complexity of the tourists’ motive to search for church experiences.

Comment: Social Mobility and the Historians

ABSTRACTThis special issue shows what distinctive contributions historians can make to the study of social mobility in modern Britain, with their strengths in micro analysis, in assembling a dense web of cause and effect, and in taking an equal interest in experience and representation. There remain significant opportunities for historians and sociologists to combine their strengths in this enterprise.

From ordinary to extraordinary: A framework of experience types

Understanding the nature of, and how to design, structured experiences has become an increasingly salient topic for academics and professionals over the past two decades. Despite the rise in interest in experiences, the related academic literature is fragmented and often atheoretical. To address this situation, this article presents a framework of experiences—including construct definitions and propositions—to help guide the research and design experiences. The framework considers the realm of all possible experiences from subconscious to conscious and subdivides conscious experiences into ordinary and extraordinary dimensions. The framework further classifies extraordinary experiences as memorable, meaningful, and transformational. The distinction between the classes of extraordinary experiences are based on key characteristics of emotion, discovery, and change.

참관객 유형에 따른 전시홀 내부 공간구성요소의 중요도 및 만족도 인지에 관한 연구

This research is to classify the type of visitors based on visiting purpose and experiences, analyze the importance and the satisfaction level to the constituent elements of the inside space of the exhibition hall for each type. 4 groups have been derived by cluster analysis, groups are as in the following. "Purchasing pursuit group" are concerned about purchasing products."Information pursuit group" are interested in collecting and acquiring information. "Experience pursuit group" are concerned entertainment, education, aesthetic and immersed experiences. "Viewing pursuit group" are less interest in experiences and purchase. By type of visitors, it turned out that "Purchasing pursuit group" wanted to improve the functional elements such as movement planning and facilities. "Information pursuit group" prefer the performances and event viewing activities, and wanted supplementary facilities to be supplemented. "Experience pursuit group" are interested in design and decoration unlike other types when planning a space. also like purchasing products. "Viewing pursuit group" are less interest in components relating to design, facilities and safety and purchase. This study is meaningful for exhibition organizer in respect that suggest idea for space planning for visitor.

Living in the Moment

This essay explores duration as the notion of time passing there and then in the life of the performer/spectator. It reprises the Bergsonian account of duration (as less a measure of time, and more a function of the feeling of time passing) to suggest that Bergson’s work has a fresh charge. The construction of time in digital culture – to do with simultaneity and synthesis, where an accumulating past is held within a continually reforming present – provides points of connection with Bergson’s interest in experience as a succession of moments lived in the present. The essay takes a longer historical view, looking at accounts of renaissance painting, nineteenth-century melodrama and contemporary performance art, along with works and ideas by Abramović, Barthes, Beckett, and Cage, to examine relations between (hetero)chronology, duration, spectatorship and experience. It argues that in many instances duration in artworks is formed of proliferated moments, whose effects are to emphasize aspects of actuality by putting us in the face of the lived experience of action and consequence, and our own awareness of this (and our own) particular lived experience. Performance itself has a further charge, for its (re)presentations are encountered chronologically, precisely in and through a passage of time inhabited by both the work and the spectator/participant. The essay argues that duration is nonetheless always cultural; and is expressed and experienced in relation to a particular historical moment. The value of duration varies, whether it is a particular length of time, a passage for endurance, a field for ethical contention or a commoditized span of engagement. In a contemporary performance economy that privileges encounter and experience, duration provides the substrate for extensive and realisable kinds of living in the moment.

Tourists' preferences with Indigenous tourism experiences in the Wet Tropics of Queensland, Australia

Abstract This article reports on visitor interest in Indigenous tourism experiences in the Wet Tropics region of Queensland, Australia. The findings are based on a survey sample of 326 tourists departing Cairns. The aim of this research was to investigate the demand for Indigenous tourism products and experiences. The research aim informed three research objectives: to identify the level of interest and participation in Indigenous tourism experiences; to ascertain if respondents with an interest in Indigenous tourism experiences had different motivations for visiting the Wet Tropics region than those with no interest in such experiences; and to determine tourists’ purchase behaviour of Indigenous artefacts. The research profiles Indigenous tourism seekers and respondents with no interest in Indigenous tourism activities. Results indicate that experiencing Indigenous culture was ranked as neither important nor unimportant by the two groups of respondents. First-time visitors (87.5%) were significantly more likely to have participated in an Indigenous tourism activity than repeat visitors to the Wet Tropics. Findings also showed that respondents who were looking to take part in Indigenous tourism experiences showed a high interest in experiencing other nature-based activities. The majority (77.5%) of Indigenous artefacts were purchased by visitors who did not participate in an Indigenous tourism activity. These findings have important implications for the development of future Indigenous tourism experiences for the Wet Tropics.

Необходимость фоновых знаний в преодолении искусственности межкультурной коммуникации

In this article specialties of intercultural communication are regarded as dialog
 of cultures on example of the German language. The arguments are
 showed, that for Russians the German language acquisition has a great
 significance as a base for studying other foreign language. This fact strike
 roots in history, has economical results and arouses interest in experience.
 The similar situations of German relations compare with Russian relations.
 This comparison is made for Russians to right speaking German. The author
 offer to take knowledge of the language and ability of change unknown
 words on others into consideration. The conclusion is done that dialog of
 cultures should conduct with knowledge of cultures, skill of solution communication
 problems with getting the wish results.

How Movies Think: Cavell on Film as a Medium of Art

Stanley Cavell’s writing about movies, from the more theoretical and general The World Viewed (1971) to the later works on specific genres (Pursuits of Happiness, Contesting Tears), has a unifying theme: some movies as (successful) art investigate conditions of accomplished selfhood and interest in experience in medium-specific ways. This claim is explained and defended by explicating the details of the medium-specificity of the moving photographic image (and its history of uses) and by focusing on Michael Verhoeven’s film The Nasty Girl (1990). Though the very ideas of accomplished selfhood and interest in experience naturally prompt some suspicion in a commercialized, pluralistic society, our responses to some movies show that we continue to aspire to a life that embodies them.

Pirfenidone: an update on clinical trial data and insights from everyday practice

Pirfenidone is an orally active, small molecule that inhibits synthesis of profibrotic and inflammatory mediators. It was approved for the treatment of adults with mild-to-moderate idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in the European Union based on the results of two pivotal phase III, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trials (CAPACITY) demonstrating efficacy and safety, and supported by two Japanese clinical trials (SP2 and SP3). Currently, there is increasing interest in experience with pirfenidone in patients relating to the real-world setting. Following the publication of the CAPACITY clinical studies, additional analyses have been conducted to provide further support for pirfenidone in clinical practice, including a modified per-protocol analysis of the CAPACITY study population. New data from the RECAP extension study also provided longer term data for pirfenidone and promising continuation rates with treatment. Pirfenidone is also being evaluated in specialist centre cohorts providing important information on real-world efficacy and safety. Increasing experience with pirfenidone in everyday clinical practice is helping to establish \expert guidance on the management of known adverse events, together with practical recommendations, to ensure adherence to treatment so that the possible longer term benefits of pirfenidone treatment in reducing lung function decline can be maximised.

Tourism Policy Makers and Managers as Generators of Meaningful Leisure Experiences Knowledge, Skills and Values Needed by the New Professionals

Tourism Policy Makers and Managers as Generators of Meaningful Leisure Experiences Knowledge, Skills and Values Needed by the New Professionals; The main purpose of this article is to understand the knowledge,skills and values tourism policy makers and managers need nowadays as generators of meaningful leisure experiences. The tourism sector is changing along with the changes in demand. People have greater interest in experiences and creativity and therefore, the product that the tourism industry is offering is developing from mere services to experiences. This means that there is a need for a new professional profile in the sector that is able to face the new situation and add end-user value. However, on this new scenario it is key to understand that the new professional profile must include not only a body of knowledge, but also skills and values in order to have the capacity to create and manage worlds of meaningful experiences and emotions.

Through with the looking glass: Escape responses to implicit mirror exposure

Based on the assumption that confrontation with one's physical reflection can be aversive, we explored the appeal of possible "escape routes" when incidentally exposed to one's mirror image. Compared to their no-exposure peers, individuals who felt less chronically "trapped" in their bodies showed increased interest in flow experiences and decreased interest in experiences involving low-level thinking or a subjective sense of meaning when exposed to their reflection. Mirror exposure also increased overall interest in "pure consciousness events," wherein the transcendence of space and time figures centrally. The aversive effects of even implicit confrontation with one's reflection therefore seem more diverse than anticipated based on existing frameworks such as Objective Self-Awareness theory, so additional theoretical development seems warranted.

Critique and Experience in Foucault

It is widely known that by the end of the 1970s, Foucault had begun to refer to ‘experience’ to account for his intellectual trajectory and to redirect the work on The History of Sexuality. However, the interest in experience also decisively shaped Foucault’s analysis of the ‘critical attitude’ that he explicitly started to address at about the same time. The article argues that Foucault’s notion of critique is informed by a specific reading and understanding of ‘experience’. Experience is conceived of as dominant structure and transformative force, as existing background of practices and transcending event, as the object of theoretical inquiry and the objective of moving beyond historical limits. Foucault defines experience as a dynamic interplay between games of truth, forms of power and relations to the self. Accordingly, the Foucauldian account of critique is characterized by three aspects: the activity of problematization, the art of voluntary insubordination, and the audacity to expose one’s own status as a subject. While the first section of the article briefly reconstructs the trajectory of ‘experience’ in Foucault’s work from the 1960s to the 1980s, the main part discusses the dimensions and implications of this ‘experimental’ critique.

EXPERIENTIALITY AND “NARRATIVE REFERENCE,” WITH THANKS TO THUCYDIDES1

ABSTRACTLately, the concept of experience, which postmodernist theoreticians declared dead, has seen a renaissance. The immediacy of experience seems to offer the possibility of reaching beyond linguistic discourses. In their attempt to overcome the “linguistic turn,” scholars such as Ankersmit, Gumbrecht, and Runia pit experience against narrative. This paper takes up the recent interest in experience, but argues against the opposition to narrative into which experience tends to be cast. The relation between experience and narrative is more complex than is widely assumed. Besides representing and giving shape to experience, narratives are received in the form of a (reception) experience. Through their temporal structure, narratives are crucial to letting us re‐experience the past as well as to representing the experiences of historical agents. This potential of narrative is nicely illustrated by Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War in which “side‐shadowing” devices restore history's experientiality. Through “side‐shadowing,” narrative can challenge the tendency toward teleologies inherent in merely retrospective histories and can re‐create the openness intrinsic to the past when it still was a present. However, the “side‐shadowing” devices used by Thucydides are fictional. To conceptualize the price and gain of “side‐shadowing” in historiography, the paper advances the concept of a “narrative reference” (a concept analogous to Ricoeur's “metaphorical reference”). Introspection, speeches, and other “side‐shadowing” devices sacrifice truth in a positivist sense, but permit a second‐level reference, namely to history's experientiality. In a final step, the paper turns toward modern historians—most of whom are reluctant to use the means of fiction—to briefly survey their attempts at restoring the openness of the past.

La seguridad nacional colombiana en vilo. Análisis multidimensional a los retos propuestos por el régimen venezolano

El presente artículo se presenta como la primera parte de los resultados de investigación sobre las amenazas a la seguridad nacional colombiana, identificando como fuente al régimen venezolano. De esta manera se plantea que el régimen venezolano, movido por el discurso bolivariano y escondiendo serias crisis socio-políticas y económicas, puede constituir una amenaza a la seguridad nacional colombiana y sentir interés en zonas estratégicas colombianas tales como La Guajira y Arauca.

Identifying tourists' preferences for Aboriginal tourism product features: implications for a northern First Nation in British Columbia

Recent research on the Aboriginal tourism market has revolved predominantly around establishing a profile of the traveller interested in Aboriginal tourism (hereafter referred to as the Aboriginal tourism traveller). Currently, the Aboriginal tourism traveller is generally described as a mature individual who is interested in having authentic experiences of different cultures. However, there is a need for a better understanding of what specific products this particular traveller is interested in, and in what style, format or nature of delivery. The study presented in this article attempts to provide insight into this topic. In a collaborative research effort between Tl'azt'en Nation and the University of Northern British Columbia, a questionnaire containing four potential Aboriginal tourism product descriptions and 31 individual features of Aboriginal tourism products was administered to 337 visitors of northern British Columbia during the summer of 2007. Despite a primary interest in nature experiences by the majority of visitors, one-third of our sample demonstrated considerable interest in experiences of Aboriginal culture. Results suggest the need for marketing diverse Aboriginal tourism attractions to attract repeat visitors and for offering an introductory experience to Aboriginal culture for first-time visitors.

A Service-Learning Elective in Native American Culture, Health and Professional Practice

To evaluate the success of an elective course in Native American culture, health, and service-learning in fostering interest in experiences and careers with the USPHS Indian Health Service (IHS), and in shaping reflective practitioners. Students conducted readings, kept reflective journals, and engaged in discussions with Native American and non-Native American speakers. Students orally presented a Native American health issue and spent their fall break in Chinle, Ariz, providing social and healthcare services to the Diné under the supervision of IHS pharmacists. Opportunities for additional IHS experiences were discussed, as was discerning the Creator's call to a professional life of service. Thirteen of 15 students who had completed the service-learning course by January 2007 responded to a brief survey indicating that not only were the course objectives met, but the experiences had a lasting impact on professional mindset and career plans. The course had a lasting impact on students' understanding of Native American social and health care issues, and on how they will practice their profession and live their lives.

Qualifications and the Professional Preparation and Development of Art Museum Educators

Art museums in the United States have undergone profound changes since the 1980s. Have the qualifications and professional preparation of art museum educators changed as well? This article focuses on these qualifications from five points of view: a) the changing context of art museums in transition from object-centered to visitor-centered institutions, b) developments in the disciplines of art history, education and art education, c) the development of art museum education from practice to profession, d) surveys and recommendations made in the 1980s regarding the professional preparation of art museum educators, and e) the expectations of employers today reflected in position announcements. Consistent emphasis has been placed on academic preparation in art history combined with practical experience in education,. and on interpersonal and communication skills. Important new qualifications include knowledge of information technology, and skills in teamwork, management, leadership, and budgeting. But there is surprisingly little interest in experience with diverse audiences, exhibition development, visitor and program evaluation, or research and publication on museum education. What qualifications will prepare art museum educators to serve changing audiences and support their own continuing professional development?