Structured Experience Research Articles

Evaluating the Temporal Dynamics of a Structured Experience: Real-Time Skin Conductance and Experience Reconstruction Measures

Structured experience (SE) providers continuously evaluate and improve their experiential offerings to make them more memorable. Arguably, the temporal dynamics of the emotions in an experience have a crucial influence on its memorability. Traditional post-experience evaluation procedures tend to ignore these temporal dynamics, thus offering imprecise feedback for providers on exactly when and where to optimize their experiential offerings. In this paper, we use two methods as a tool for evaluating how closely the lived experience of a SE follows the experience as intended by the provider: real-time skin conductance (SC) and experience reconstruction measures (ERMs). We demonstrate that both SC and ERMs are significantly related to intended experience. This link was found to be stronger for later sections of the experience than for earlier sections. In addition, SC and ERMs appear to be useful tools to assess the effectiveness of design interventions, thus providing valuable feedback for SE providers.

Cities in the experience economy: the rise and the future of urban leisure formats

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the rise and the future of urban leisure format (ULF), i.e. local seasonal short-lived and repeatable small-scale place-time-based staging urban leisure experiences which become the focus of recreation and tourism development in many cities. It aims to analyse the structure of the ULF by identifying its main features and also to propose the future developments of the concept. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on the experience economy principles. It develops the models for structured experiences/experienscape by adding the analogy with television programme formats to propose the general logic of constructing, organising and packetizing urban leisure experiences that are multiplied effectively to other urban time-spaces. Findings The ULF’s future potential lies in its ability to adopt local components, i.e. people and urban resources, to global trends using a structured experiences/experience logic which makes the ULF formattable, i.e. with the capacity to get informally standardised, then repeated and adapted to other cities’ contexts. Research limitations/implications The paper provides a conceptual framework for formatting the leisure events and places under the framework of the structured experience, will be carefully adapted to the micro-local level, i.e. community activities sphere. The ULF is a theoretical concept and needs empirical research to verify its validity. Practical implications The ULF provides urban managers with a framework for replicating, multiplying and adapting urban leisure events and sites within the structured experiences (SE) designing framework. Originality/value The study contributes to the scientific discussion on the experience economy by introducing the ULF concept which can be adapted to various urban conditions.

Effective Intern Conferencing

The authors examine specific proce dures for conducting pre- and postob servation conferences with interns. The Supervision Throughput Model (STM) presented here assumes the use of selected interpersonal communication skills and details specific steps for carry ing out collaborative, goal-oriented con ferences. The idea of a "throughput" is drawn from industry and refers to in ternship programs as a structured expe rience or process that student interns enter as novices. As students are "put through" the internship, skillful super visors and directing teachers guide the student in developing the pedagogical knowledge, skills, and self-evaluative posture of a professional teacher. By the time they exit the internship, students' skills, self-concept, and status have ad vanced to that of a beginning teacher.

Establishing Guidelines for Differential Processing of Structured Experiences Based on Self-Knowledge Stage Theory

To establish guidelines for differential processing of structured experi ences, predictions for types of processing questions appropriate to indi viduals at various stages of development were based on self-knowledge theory. Two instruments were administered to 111 participants to test the predictions: the Experience Recall Test, used to assess the level of stage development, and the Mirroring Questionnaire, used to determine suc cess in responding to stage-linked processing questions following a struc tured experience. Analysis of data revealed a significant positive relationship between the self-knowledge stage and success in responding to questions associated with the stage. The results suggest that self- knowledge theory can be used to specify guidelines for processing activi ties to make them more effective tools. Implications for other aspects of counseling and further research are discussed.