Traditional Context Research Articles

Research on multimodal based learning evaluation method in smart classroom

In traditional learning contexts, teachers primarily assess students' behavior, emotional changes, and assignment completion to ensure teaching quality. Currently, there are challenges in evaluating students, such as assessments being insufficiently comprehensive and timely, a singular evaluation perspective that hinders the holistic consideration of factors affecting learning assessments, and a weak correlation among evaluation criteria, resulting in suboptimal evaluation outcomes. In recent years, with the rapid development and widespread application of artificial intelligence and information technology, the era of smart classrooms has arrived. New technologies like image processing and artificial intelligence offer opportunities for personalized support services and enhancing teaching quality. Therefore, to provide a more comprehensive and objective reflection of teaching quality, this paper proposes a multi-modal information fusion learning assessment model. This model is achieved by determining the weight values of three dimensions, cognitive attention, emotional attitude, and course acceptance along with their corresponding attributes. Subsequently, through a fusion strategy, it calculates the learning assessment score by integrating information from these three dimensions. A series of experimental data confirms the effectiveness of this approach.

Analysis of the Development and Direction of Contemporary Exhibitions

With the advancement of civilization and the passage of time, art has steadily merged into everyday life. The quantity and variety of art exhibitions held have significantly expanded, becoming a daily activity for the majority of the public as the social process and the pace of peoples lives continue to quicken. The public is given a strong sense of connection to the art institution and the exhibition space as a result of the modern exhibitions progressive evolution and subsequent innovation and improvement. This paper looks at the potential and direction of contemporary art exhibitions, analyzes the shortcomings of contemporary art exhibitions, and looks at the current situation and development prospects of contemporary art exhibitions as well as the background of academic research at home and abroad. It examines and provides examples from four perspectives, including participatory exhibition, interactive art, and high technology, Nicholas Berriods relational aesthetic theory, and online exhibition. It also examines and thinks from the perspective of traditional Chinese context theory, reflecting various methods of presenting contemporary exhibitions and new ideas in the hopes of assisting artists and curators.

Perception of Space in the Traditional and Virtual Classroom

The paper presents the study of the educational context and its characteristics to achieve the most effective learning process.The aim of the research is to examine the perception of physical space in the traditional classroom and virtual space in online learning. The study of this issue is based on the psychological approach to the perception of virtual space as a model of physical space and on understanding the importance of this research area due to the development of distant forms of learning: though, the problems of virtual space functioning in the perception of students and its impact on learning efficiency still remain unexplored. Meanwhile, understanding the mechanism of space perception can help to adapt the learning process to the form of learning in choice: learning in a traditional classroom, where students work in a real physical space, learning in a virtual environment or in a hybrid form.Materials and methods. The theoretical basis for comparing the characteristics of physical and virtual space is the studies that focus on the importance of spatial organization in the process of learning. The psychological approach to the perception of space makes it possible to rely on the mechanism of transferring the physical characteristics of space into a virtual environment and to determine the possibility of comparison, primarily in an axiological sense. The study was carried out in the context of university education. Students of a higher educational institution were offered a questionnaire, the results of which were processed using a statistical method. Quantitative trends were then interpreted in the application to the learning process. The experiment was carried out in three stages (questionnaire, statistical processing, interpretation of the results), each of which revealed new aspects of the problem under study.Results. The study shows that there is a metaphorization mechanism that allows the learner to perceive the space of the virtual classroom in the same terms as the physical space of the traditional classroom. At the same time, the comparison of statistical data indicates the obvious differences in the perception of the student's space in the traditional and virtual classrooms. This is especially true for such parameters as openness, freedom of movement and the ratio of participants in the educational space, which indicates different learning conditions that determine the choice of teaching methods and techniques in the traditional context and in the virtual educational environment. Discussion of the results of statistical analysis allows us to draw conclusions about the difference of educational potential of the virtual and physical classroom spaces, the importance of socialization and various methods of its creation in the educational process.Conclusion. The conducted research shows the need for further study of space in the educational context, the need to take into account its parameters for developing virtual courses. Also, the results of the study show the importance of spatial characteristics for the success of learning, for creating a comfortable educational environment. The data obtained can be used in the development and improvement of online courses; it will help to avoid mistakes when in planning.

The Metaphysical Turn in the History of Thought: Anaximander and Buddhist Philosophy

The present study, primarily of a theoretical nature, endeavors to accomplish two distinct objectives. First and foremost, it endeavors to engage in a thoughtful examination of the metaphysical significance that Anaximander’s philosophy embodies within the context of the nascent Western philosophical tradition. Furthermore, it aims to investigate how it was contemporaneous Buddhist thought, coeval with Anaximander’s era, that more explicitly elucidated the concept of the “void” as an inherent aspect of authentic existence. This elucidation was articulated through aphoristic discourse rather than being reliant on formal logical reasoning or structured arguments.

Homography transform enhance CNN prediction accuracy on image classification

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) image classification is a well-established algorithm that has been implemented in many fields. Benefit from the digitalization process and the exponential increase in the base of smart devices, this algorithm can be applied to even more traditional or casual contexts in the future driven by the trend of Internet of Things. Thus, the needs for optimizing image classification in specific domains may have turned out to be ongoing valuable research direction. This paper focuses on providing optimization under one example context which is using traffic signs as the experimental target. For the randomly selected traffic sign samples in the experiment, the accuracy obtained from the samples treated by the homography transform compared to control group passed all three statistical tests: Two Sample t-test, McNemar's test, and Fisher's exact test. Therefore, research direction has achieved small-scale validation and presents optimism for large-sample experiments and further research in optimization using the introduced strategy in the paper.

A New Day for Perennialism: the Case for a Perennial Phenomenology, or ‘Soft’ Perennialism

AbstractThis paper argues for a ‘perennial phenomenology’ (or ‘soft’ perennialism) varying from the traditionalist notion of a ‘perennial philosophy.’ Perennial phenomenology offers a more nuanced form of perennialism that focuses on spiritual/mystical experiences rather than the teachings and beliefs of different religions. While teachings and beliefs vary greatly, the mystical experiences associated with different mystical traditions have striking commonalities. I suggest four experiential aspects that support a perennial phenomenology. These aspects also necessitate a reconsideration of the debate between perennialism and constructivism. Significantly, these experiential elements are present when mystical experiences occur outside the context of spiritual traditions, to people who know little or nothing about spirituality and consider themselves non-religious. Treating mystical experiences exclusively in the context or religion and spiritual traditions has been a major failing in debates between constructivists (or contextualists) and perennialists. There is a common landscape of mystical experience that precedes interpretation and conceptualization by spiritual traditions. This paper contributes to a reopening of discussion about perennialism that has been underway in recent years.

Exploring Industry 4.0 technologies to improve manufacturing enterprise safety management: A TOPSIS-based decision support system and real case study

Industry 4.0 is changing the traditional manufacturing context, increasing digitalization towards smart production. Safety is one of the most critical issues and companies are approaching its digital transformation from technological and management perspectives. The main criticalities in this transition are due to the different benefits deriving from the impact of each Industry 4.0 technology applied and therefore to the choice of the most appropriate technologies for the specific production system for safety management. In this scenario, the aim of this study is to assist practitioners in the choice of the most appropriate technologies according to the benefits to be obtained and to the constraints dictated by the characteristics of the production system. For this purpose, a Systematic Literature Review has been performed, to gain a comprehensive overview of current or potential application of Industry 4.0 technologies in safety management, identifying the most impactful technologies and defining the key parameters to consider. Based on the obtained results, a Decision Support System (DSS) has been designed, consisting of a flowchart and a TOPSIS-based tool, to identify the best Industry 4.0 technologies and quantify their suitability for safety management, respectively. Finally, the proposed methodology was applied and validated in a real case study of a large food company. According to the final ranking suggested by the DSS, it is possible to consider Cloud as the most impactful Industry 4.0 technology for the safety management system within the specific company, followed by IoT. This result is consistent with data collected from the experts, confirming the effectiveness of the theoretical DSS to investigate the best Industry 4.0 technology adoption.

“He’d seen it in the words of Owen and Brooke”: The Influence of Great War Poetry on Post-Millennium Soldier Poets

To this day, the term “soldier poetry” is still predominantly associated in popu- lar perception with the 1914–1918 trench poets, such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, or Isaac Rosenberg. And yet, the dawn of the new millennium, marked by the rise of the global War on Terror, saw a significant revival of the genre in Britain. One of the most noteworthy indicators of this is John Jeffcock’s anthology Heroes (2011), which has col- lected a hundred poems written by British soldiers who fought in recent conflicts – Iraq and Afghanistan in particular. While these poems are framed within the shifting military, socio-demographical, and political dimensions of war in our time, they simultaneously exhibit strong roots within the context of a specific literary tradition that originated in the First World War. This article sets out to analyse a selection of poems from Heroes, focus- ing on the way these poets construct a network of intertextual citations, borrowings, and allusions to connect their texts – quite deliberately – with the much acclaimed generation of poets form the Great War. The article argues that, by doing so, the poets facilitate the transposition of a set of broader myths and emotions that are typically associated with the Great War onto the new (con)text, thereby adding new literary, cultural, and social meanings to the texts.

Analysis of the fusion development of traditional culture concept and interior art design based on 3D scene analysis

Abstract In this paper, by collecting a large number of 3D scenes with traditional cultural styles, after pre-processing, the style analysis task of 3D scenes is realized through two stages of model style element discovery and scene style pattern mining. In the style pattern mining stage, the maximum frequent pattern mining algorithm is used to get the style pattern of the final scene, and the part is visualized. To reduce the user’s selection time, a 3D interior layout recommendation system based on style rule mining is designed using collaborative filtering. Based on the previous work on scene style pattern mining, the style association rules are further mined, and the user is provided with candidate layouts and furniture dynamically and in real-time by introducing user interaction. Comparing the text-improved recommendation algorithm with the traditional recommendation algorithm, the accuracy rate of the traditional algorithm starts to saturate to 65% after TopN>20, while the algorithm in this paper is higher than 80%. In the analysis of traditional cultural contexts of interior art, in terms of the aesthetic acquisition, the highest proportion of aesthetic association is 63.7%. In terms of emotional expression, the proportion of symbolization of emotion is 73.1%. In terms of object comparison, the highest proportion of plurality and flexibility of combinations was 57.5%. Therefore, this paper provides good research ideas for how to better integrate traditional culture into interior design.

Blind quality-based pairwise ranking of contrast changed color images using deep networks

Next-generation multimedia networks are expected to provide systems and applications with top Quality of Experience (QoE) to users. To this end, robust quality evaluation metrics are critical. Unfortunately, most current research focuses only on modeling and evaluating mainly distortions across the pipeline of multimedia networks. While distortions are important, it is also as important to consider the effects of enhancement and other manipulations of multimedia content, especially images and videos. In contrast to most existing works dedicated to evaluating image/video quality in its traditional context, very few research efforts have been devoted to Image Quality Enhancement Assessment (IQEA) and more specifically, Contrast Enhancement Evaluation (CEE). Our contribution fills this gap by proposing a pairwise ranking scheme for estimating and evaluating the perceptual quality of image contrast change (contrast enhancement and/or contrast-distorted images) process. We propose a novel Deep Learning-based Blind Quality pairwise Ranking scheme for Contrast-Changed (Deep-BQRCC) images. This method provides an automatic pairwise ranking of a set of contrast-changed images. The proposed framework is based on using a pair of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) together with a saliency-based attention model and a color-difference visual map. Extensive experiments were conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed workflow through an ablation analysis. Different combinations of CNN models and pooling strategies were analyzed. The proposed Deep-BQRCC approach was evaluated over three dedicated publicly available datasets. The experimental results showed an increase in performance within a range of 3–10% compared to state-of-the-art IQEA measures.

Evaluating a Model of Flow and Clutch Optimal Psychological States in Adventure Recreation

Adventure recreation is a growing form of leisure associated with optimal psychological states reported to involve intensely pleasant emotions, optimal functioning, and a sense of achievement or fulfillment. However, much of the research on this topic has primarily focused on singular optimal state models (e.g. flow, peak experience), which have often been developed and refined in traditional sport contexts. This study investigated the potential utility of a multiple optimal state model (i.e. flow and clutch) for understanding optimal psychological states experienced across a range of adventure recreation activities (e.g. rockclimbing, snowboarding, white-water kayaking). Data were collected with 20 participants (mean age = 35.7 years, SD = 10.7) via the Scanlan Collaborative Interview Method. While flow and clutch states were reported to both involve an immersive, present moment focus, flow states were characterized by expanded attentional focus, connection to nature, effortlessness, and intuitive, pleasurable movements, whereas clutch states were characterized by a narrow focus on achieving a difficult outcome and deliberate thinking about bodily movements, followed by a sense of achievement. The findings are used to propose an expanded model of flow and clutch states that identifies the unique antecedents, characteristics, and consequences of flow and clutch optimal states in adventure recreation contexts.

In the beginning: the light, scientific management and Quaker Philadelphia

PurposeThis paper aims to offer a new history of management by tracing a religious dimension of scientific management. The thesis is that the good was foundational for bringing scientific management to success in Taylor’s native Quaker Philadelphia in the 1880s. The paper’s main contribution is to contrast the philosophical origins of Taylor’s ideas in scientific management to his native Quaker roots, and how Taylor, over time, into the 1910s, wrestled with this issue.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is situated in historical interpretivism and subjectivism, leaning on contextual and narrative research on religious morality.FindingsQuaker morality prevented managerial opportunism at Taylor’s Midvale Steel in the 1880s. Conversely, by the 1900s and 1910s, interest conflicts between workers and managers escalated when scientific management moved out of its traditional cultural contexts of Quaker Philadelphia and spread across the USA. The historical implication is, already for Taylor’s time, that scientific management never was the “one-best way” of management.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research needs to deepen and broaden research on scientific management when tracing the significance of religion and culture in management thought.Practical implicationsThe paper has implications for modern studies of business morality by uncovering the practical relevance of religious business ethics at the outset of management studies.Social implicationsThe historic emergence of scientific management points to a theory of institutional evolution and economic growth, when religiously grounded governance of the firm deinstitutionalized, and institutional economic governance, with different but superior economic advantages, progressed by the 1900s.Originality/valueThe paper suggests an alternative version of the intellectual heritage of management studies by tracing the legacy of Taylor’s Quakerism and how religious and cultural ideas contributed to the formation of science in management.

‘An Industrial Revelation’ – The Political Apocalyptic in Gaskell’s North and South

Abstract This essay examines the religious contents of Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1854–1855 novel, North and South, within the context of Apocalyptic literary traditions from Antiquity, and in the literary and historical contexts accessible to Victorians. Inviting this comparison is the character Bessy Higgins, a terminally ill factory seamstress who quotes the Book of Revelation and reports prophetic dreams of some actual merit. By placing this anachronistically apocalyptic voice amid the working poor of her industrial urban setting, Gaskell effects a return to the original political function of the Apocalyptic genre: the vindication of a disenfranchised underclass. Drawing upon examples from Christian and pre-Christian Antiquity, this essay establishes the generic features of Apocalyptic literature as they pertain to its political function, and identifies key points at which Gaskell’s text aligns with them. Though Gaskell does not replicate the genre’s form in full, North and South being a novel rather than a dream-vision, she nonetheless uses the character Bessy to incorporate apocalyptic concepts, images, arguments, and rhetoric into her otherwise realistic narrative of nineteenth-century class struggle. The result, coded in layers of Biblical reference, is an indictment of the capitalist class, comparing them to the sinners who temporarily inherit the Earth in the Apocalypse of John, after the righteous have been purged from it. The final part of this essay further contextualizes Bessy Higgins within the Methodist traditions contemporary to North and South, and within Gaskell’s intersecting religious and political views.

Avatar taxonomy: a new technological tool to enhance the consumer-brand relationships

PurposeAvatars, which are used as a technology and marketing tactic, can embody consumer-facing employees and mimic their real-life roles on companies' websites, thereby playing a key role in enhancing the relationships between consumers and brands in the online environment. Academics and practitioners have increasingly acknowledged the significance of the consumer-brand relationship in both traditional and online contexts. However, the impersonal nature of the online environment is considered to be a hindrance to the development of these relationships. Despite the importance of this technology, little attention has been paid to the investigation of the avatar concept from a marketing perspective. This paper explores the nature of the avatar concept, including its main characteristics, dimensions, and conditions as well as the attitudinal and behavioural consequences of avatar users.Design/methodology/approachAdopting the qualitative design, a taxonomy was developed from interviews. In total, 42 interviews were conducted with current university students. 30 participants participated in the exploratory interviews. A total of 12 interviews were conducted during the in-depth stage based on findings in the preceding research.FindingsBased on the qualitative data analysis, a taxonomy was developed. The idea of the taxonomy is summarized in that different dimensions of the avatar are considered the main base (first phase) of the taxonomy. There are consequential three parts: the attitudinal consequences related to the website; the attitudinal consequences related to the brand; the behaviours towards the brand. These behaviours represent the final phase of the taxonomy.Originality/valueBy developing a taxonomy of using avatars on brands' websites, the authors advance the understanding consumer-brands relationships. Using avatars' verbal interactions helps in shaping consumers' cognitive, affective, attitudinal and behavioural responses and add vital empirical evidence to the increasing body of research and practices involving avatar usage in the interactive marketing area.

Is living alone beneficial to older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic? Examining associations between living arrangements and life satisfaction by gender in Korea

Objectives This study examines associations between living arrangements and life satisfaction and the associated effects of gender among Korean older adults during the pandemic. Method Data were drawn from the 2020 National Survey of Older Koreans—a nationally representative survey. Living arrangements were categorized into four groups: living alone; living with spouse only; living with family and spouse; and living with family without spouse. Logistic regression analyses were used to examine associations between living arrangements and life satisfaction measured as a binary outcome. Results Older adults living alone were more likely to be satisfied with life compared with those who lived with a spouse only. However, living alone became nonsignificant after controlling for social contact with friends or neighbors and social participation. Interestingly, there was a significant interaction between living arrangements and gender, showing that living alone was beneficial to older women but not to men. Subsample analysis by gender confirmed that older women living alone had a greater likelihood of being satisfied with life than those living with a spouse only, whereas men living alone had lower life satisfaction. Conclusion Findings suggest that living alone is not always deleterious to older adults, particularly women. During the pandemic, older Korean women living with their spouse and/or family might be less satisfied with life due to the dual burden of family care and housework, associated with traditional gendered norms and social context.

“It's like a gamble, anything could happen”: Women navigating safety and agency in online dating in urban Turkey

Online dating platforms are increasingly used to explore dating and relationships by young adults. Although a growing body of evidence shows that they pose disproportionate and gendered risks to women's safety and health, the question of how young adult women respond to and resist these risks is not sufficiently understood. The present study aims to fill this gap by exploring how women navigate safety and exercise agency when dating men online in a non-Western traditional context in transition, that is, urban Turkey. Data were collected through qualitative interviews with 11 women users of dating apps, aged 24–33 years, and thematically analyzed from a feminist perspective. The analysis showed three themes that captured the women's extensive and individual safety-building labor when dating men via apps: (a) bearing the burden of risks, (b) exercising control in the midst of risks, and (c) planning for a safe exit. The conservative gender order that fails to effectively respond to gender-based violence and reinforces the stigmatization of women for dating online exacerbated their effort in contemporary Turkey. Our findings extend previous work by showing that women's safety work and agency in online dating are socioculturally, contextually, and continually mediated.

Rethinking Terms: Dohā, Vajra-, and Caryāgīti

Dohās, vajragīti, and caryāgīti are key terms associated with the poetic writings of the Mahāsiddhas. This study focuses on Apabhraṃśa dohās, their commentaries, Tibetan translations, and collections containing them, shedding light on previously neglected aspects of this text type. By investigating the historical and original contexts of these three terms and comparing them to their later applications in traditional contexts and academia, this paper argues against the prevailing notion that they are genetically distinct and that this text type is primarily defined by orality and spontaneity. Consequently, it challenges the romanticized myth of certain origin narratives, such as student–teacher encounters. Instead, this brief presentation demonstrates that the often-repeated stereotypical definitions of these terms should be largely rejected, as they are merely different labels for the same text type with blurred and ill-defined subcategories. The analysis of primary sources reveals that various facets, e.g., compilation (an important but neglected aspect), go beyond the strongly emphasized oral component of this text type, thereby leading to the inaccurate definitions of the terms. In conclusion, intertextuality, compilation, and assigned authorship are crucial yet overlooked elements in defining the text type and understanding its function.

“DIGITAL PHILOSOPHY”: THE PROBLEM OF USING TERM IN SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY

The author is analyzing the modern socio-philosophical discourse of Internet transformation of the modern world and raises the issue of correct use of term “digital philosophy” in scientifi c publications. Using hermeneutic and system methods, the author concludes that modern social philosophy departs from traditional historical context of using the term to new global meaning for the description of modern digital being.

Can you smell the (virtual) roses? The influence of olfactory cues in virtual reality on immersion and positive brand responses

Virtual reality (VR) has grown in popularity and technological ability, offering wider potential for retailers to immerse consumers in branded experiences. On the industry side, experts argue that integration of olfactory cues is the next big development for VR as such cues have the potential to improve immersion – the feeling of being ‘plugged into’ the experience – and possibly elicit positive brand responses. Despite its promise, integration of olfactory cues also has its challenges, such as financial costs and conflicting evidence of their effects in traditional retail contexts. Unfortunately, research has yet to explore the integration of olfactory cues in VR and offer insight to retailers and scholars. To address this deficit, this research builds upon the concept of immersion and integrates flow theory to explore the interplay and additive nature of olfactory stimuli and VR. We employ four studies using a variety of both ambient (i.e., actual scents) and imagined (i.e., prompted through description) olfactory cues in field (i.e., Facebook A/B testing), online, and laboratory settings. Our findings show through both measured mediation and moderation that in retail-centric VR environments, the presence (vs. absence) of olfactory cues heightens immersion. In turn, immersion elicits flow, which improves brand responses. Our research contributes to the sensory marketing and VR literatures and offers recommendations to retailers seeking to build or expand their VR strategies.

Teaching as Learning: Etymological Investigation, Canonical Analysis, and Experiential Reflection in the Chinese Cultural Context

Purpose This study re-examines the relationship between jiao (lit. teaching) and xue (lit. learning)—the foundational education concepts in the traditional Chinese cultural context—to enlighten our contemporary understandings of education and educational research. Design/Approach/Methods This study first lays its foundation on an etymological investigation. It then integrates two mutually connected approaches— the classics and the self as method—to present a comprehensive analysis. Finally, it critically reviews the methodology used in this study. Findings The interdependency of xue and jiao has an etymological foundation, supported by canonical doctrines and verified by individualized experiences. The interpretation of xue as xiao (to imitate) describes the origin and process of education in which the junior imitated and followed the elder, while the extended interpretation of xue as jue (to awaken) stresses the effects and functions of education. In the classical Chinese context, greater significance was placed on xue—the keyword concurrently connoting the meaning of teaching and learning in the modern sense. It is misleading to narrowly render the originally meaningful word group xuexi as learning in modern English. Originality/Value This study consults sources in multiple languages and integrates both the classics and the self as method. Based on this, the etymological investigation, canonical analysis, and experiential reflection are collated to provide a rich and deep discussion. By focusing on the core characteristics and the concepts they imply, this study also touches on the key characteristics of the hieroglyphic system and the unique way of thinking it represents.