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A Textual and Visual Analysis of the Intrinsic Value Dimensions of Romania: Towards a Sustainable Destination Brand

This work examines the projected image of Romania as an emerging tourism destination. Computed content-analysis was applied to the photos, text and video materials promoted online in Romania’s last international tourism campaign. The conceptual framework used corresponds to intrinsic values (play, aesthetics, ethics and spirituality), from Holbrook’s typology of value. Being more difficult to apprehend and therefore studied less, intrinsic values allow a more sophisticated approach to value creation. The purpose here is to identify the main attributes that are promoted about Romania by destination marketing organizations. The content analysis of text (last international promotion campaign Explore the Carpathian Garden) and visual data (27 photos from the official Facebook webpage and 7 TV videos) allow to depict an experiential view of Romania’s image: natural resources (coded as aesthetics with 29% of references), epistemic value of discovery (play 25.8%), authentic and historical traditions (ethics 25.8%) and wellness and therapeutic activities (spirituality, 19.3%). Destination marketing organizations have the potential to develop some distinctive aspects such as authenticity (as an ethical value dimension) and play (as an active, self-oriented value). Findings also highlight that a complimentary approach using textual and visual data might be a suitable option to research destination brand image.

O televisionamento do mundo

A televisão historicamente vem sendo pensada por meio de uma série de relações dicotômicas, que propõem um “dentro” e um “fora” bem delimitados e pacificados. Em contraposição a essa perspectiva, neste artigo, buscamos desenvolver um exercício reflexivo e historicizante sobre modos de entendimento da TV, a partir de um termo que já foi muito usado, mas que vem caindo em desuso nos últimos anos: trata-se do substantivo “televisionamento”. A partir da recuperação da força dessa metáfora e da exploração de certos fenômenos midiáticos atuais (advindos da TV “convencional” e do YouTube, por exemplo), propomos um passeio sobre diferentes textualidades televisivas, abordando algumas de suas transformações, questionando perspectivas autocentradas. Concluímos ressaltando a importância de se abandonar análises midiacêntricas a fim de se compreender a formação e a experiência dos telespectadores atuais, bem como as novas realidades que estão sendo construídas em meio a esse televisionamento do mundo.

Does virtual reality attract visitors? The mediating effect of presence on consumer response in virtual reality tourism advertising

An experimental study was conducted to test the mediating effect of presence on the consumer response to tourism promotion using virtual reality (VR) technology. Hong Kong college students (N = 203) were assigned to three experimental groups in which they were exposed to a hotel advertorial on an online blog, a VR 360° video on a mobile phone, or a VR 360° video using Google Cardboard goggles. The results supported the hypothesis that presence plays a mediating role in the relationship between the use of VR in tourism advertising and consumer response. As one of the first studies in the tourism field to investigate the effects of a virtual depiction of a real-world environment on consumption intentions, the findings reveal how VR technology can be used to promote a hotel by generating a sense of presence. This study makes a further contribution to the VR literature by finding that the use of Cardboard goggles did not produce a significantly greater sense of presence in the experience of advertorial viewers. The theoretical contributions and practical implications of the findings for the use of VR technology in branding and promotion are discussed.

An ontology-based approach to integrate TV and IoT middlewares

Internet of Things (IoT) is the interconnection of physical devices, known of smart objects, that share data and collaborate among them to support users. There are IoT usage scenarios in several domains. In-home domain, the use of smart objects may support monitoring and automation of the environment. In a home, the TV is one of the most used devices. It may also collaborate with the smart objects to enhance the interactive experience of viewers on watching. To support such a meeting, we propose an (i) conceptual model, IoTTV-Ont, that allows modeling entire homes, with smart objects, people’ profile, and viewers’ interaction events with TV applications; (ii) a software architecture that integrates and interoperates digital TV and IoT middleware. This architecture allows the TV applications: to be aware of the physical environment context, to change aspects of the physical environment, to identify the viewers, and to receive multimodal interactions performed by viewers. We demonstrate our work through use cases. For this, we implement a prototype of our software architecture and modeled home using IoTTV-Ont. Then we developed usage scenarios that enhance TV viewers’ experience by supporting features such as content adaptation, multi-sensorial immersive experience, and multimodal user interaction.

Advertising in health and medicine: using mass media to communicate with patients

BackgroundAdvertising—a marketing communications method involving the paid use of mass media to deliver messages to desired audiences—represents one of the most common and effective avenues for engaging current and prospective patients. Although late to proliferate in the health services industry due to tradition, the medium of communication is now firmly established and routinely deployed by health and medical organizations far and wide. Despite widespread use, healthcare providers must take opportunities, when and where possible, to stay abreast of the latest details concerning advertising and its associated applications, increasing the likelihood of successful audience engagements.DiscussionMaintaining an awareness of current developments in health services advertising can be facilitated by acquiring operational perspectives and practices from peer institutions. Most any healthcare provider can benefit from experiential views as they can shape and hone advertising approaches. Gaining such insights can be difficult, given competitive sensitivities, but occasionally healthcare institutions are compelled to share knowledge in published accounts, with this particular article following suit. Specifically, insights and experiences from Willis-Knighton Health System’s extensive and historic use of advertising are shared, bolstering the experiential accounts available in the literature and supplying operational guidance for health and medical providers.ConclusionsAdvertising, if well devised and deployed, offers healthcare providers opportunities to dramatically improve their fortunes by successfully engaging current and prospective patients, hastening exchange and building vital market share. In pursuit of advertising excellence, health and medical establishments can bolster associated endeavors by tapping into the experiences of other healthcare providers, permitting insights which might potentially be incorporated into communicative pathways. This account sheds light on the advertising operations of a major health system, supplying food for thought for the advancement of advertising acumen.

Ethics, hospitality and aesthetics in Fresa y chocolate/Strawberry and Chocolate (Gutiérrez Alea and Tabío 1993) and Santa y Andrés/Santa and Andrés (Lechuga 2016)

This article draws on Levinas’ ‘first ethics’ and Derrida’s account of hospitality in order to examine how Fresa y chocolate/ Strawberry and Chocolate () and Santa y Andrés/Santa and Andrés ()make perceptible (drawing on the etymology of aesthetics as ‘aistheta’, perceptible things) the problem of the encounter with the Other. As films, they inevitably thematize and reduce both the Other’s infinite alterity and our own infinite responsibility. However, whereas Santa y Andrés makes the viewer experience the uncertainty produced by the subject’s encounter with difference, developing an aesthetics that bears a trace of this ‘first ethics’, Fresa y chocolate reduces alterity in favour of resolution. Examining the characters’ interactions in light of Derrida’s ‘hostipitality’, it becomes clear that, whereas Alea’s work encourages us to forget the power imbalances that neuter Diego’s authority as host, Lechuga’s film gestures towards a pervasive sovereignty that determines the exercise of hospitality as ethical response. Thus, by acknowledging the uncomfortable proximity of hospitality, hostility and discipline, and by allowing the viewer to access a trace of the unsettling encounter with infinite otherness, Santa y Andrés encourages a more ethical engagement with difference than its predecessor.

Data-Driven Bandwidth Prediction Models and Automated Model Selection for Low Latency

Today's HTTP adaptive streaming solutions use a variety of algorithms to measure the available network bandwidth and predict its future values. Bandwidth prediction, which is already a difficult task, must be more accurate when lower latency is desired due to the shorter time available to react to bandwidth changes, and when mobile networks are involved due to their inherently more frequent and potentially larger bandwidth fluctuations. Any inaccuracy in bandwidth prediction results in flawed adaptation decisions, which will in turn translate into a diminished viewer experience. We propose an Automated Model for Prediction (AMP) that encompasses techniques for bandwidth prediction and model auto-selection specifically designed for low-latency live steaming with chunked transfer encoding. We first study statistical and computational intelligence techniques to implement a suite of bandwidth prediction models that can work accurately under a broad range of network conditions, and second, we introduce an automated prediction model selection method. We confirm the effectiveness of our solution through trace-driven live streaming experiments.

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The Mechanism of Relaxation by Viewing a Japanese Garden: A Pilot Study.

To explore people's visual attention and psychological and physiological responses to viewing a Japanese garden (an asymmetrically designed garden) and an herb garden (a symmetrically designed garden). There are few studies of eye movements when observing different style gardens, and how they are connected to the interpretation of the space, and physiological and psychological responses. Thirty subjects were recruited and their physiological and psychological responses to viewing the garden types were assessed using a heart-rate monitor and questionnaire. Eye movements while viewing projected slide images of the gardens were tracking using an eye-tracking monitor. A significant decrease in heart rate was observed when subjects were viewing the Japanese garden as opposed to viewing the herb garden. Mood was significantly improved in both gardens, but eye-gaze patterns differed. The Japanese garden elicited far more comments about expectations for the coming season; unlike the herb garden, it also induced memories of viewing other landscapes. The physiological and psychological responses to viewing gardens differs based on the quality of landscape design and the prior experience of viewers.

Da logicização do mundo ao mundo pré-dado:

Este artigo expõe a fenomenologia como análise do mundo da vida como mundo pré-dado, isto é, mundo pré-significativo, entendo-o assim como condição ontológica existencial. Faz uma análise existencial a partir dá obra A crise das ciências europeias e a fenomenologia transcendental. Apresentar algumas críticas segundo E. Husserl sobre o universo minimizante ao qual se estabelece dentro do contexto de uma caracterização cientifica de mundo, em que Husserl afirma que o mundo da vida não se enquadra dentro de um contexto formal estabelecido, mas o mesmo é entendido como dinâmico, intencional, experiencial e vivencial. Ademais, destaca alguns aspectos do método fenomenológico como meio para a experiência ontológica transcendental. Deste modo, busca evidenciar uma maior compreensão epistemológica da teoria husserliana do mundo da vida tendo contato direto de suas obras. Conclusivamente, expõe como Husserl apresenta sua crítica à visão científica de mundo, propondo de outro modo, a visão experiencial de uma ontologia transcendental.

Whatsappsport: Using Whatsapp While Viewing Sports Events

Viewing sports events was always qualitatively different from the viewing experience of other genres. The social experience and emotional investment of sports viewers created unique viewing habits, in which second screens and social media effectively extend the experience of the millions of concurrent sports viewers wishing to share their feelings with each other. The enormous popularity of Whatsapp groups in recent years, and especially sports-focused groups, has made this app an integral element in event viewing, and created a unique viewing dynamic. This study analyzes the discourse in Whatsapp sports groups in Israel as its members view the 2018 World Cup soccer games, in an effort to identify the new role of second screens during sports broadcasts. An analysis of group messages shared by Whatsapp sports groups whose members cover a diverse range of ages and geographic locations basically shows that, in contrast to other media genres in which second screening is not necessarily related to the content broadcast on the primary screen, sports fans demonstrate an absolute commitment to the primary broadcast when second screening. On a deeper level, this study identified four main functions of Whatsapp groups during sports broadcasts: a social agent that supervises and controls the nature and quality of the primary screen broadcast, the generator of discourse that extols viewers’ expertise and effectively challenges traditional sport hierarchies, an active role in game management as fans attempt to influence game outcomes, and a means for extending fans’ celebrations of victory beyond the boundaries of the game.

Using Physiological Recordings for Studying User Experience: Case of Conversational Agent-Equipped TV

ABSTRACTThis study explores TV viewers’ user experience (UX) of the conversational agent (CA) assisted interactions while watching TV. In the human-computer interaction field, the user experience is primarily measured through performance and subjective self-reported data. But TV is an entertainment medium, the user experience of TV viewers should be determined based on how much the TV viewers enjoyed and immersed, rather than productivity or performance. It is also necessary to collect objective data as well as subjective self-report results of emotional experiences. Although the CA is becoming increasingly common in everyday life, the user satisfaction is still not high. However, this is mainly a result of evaluation in the performance aspect, and few studies have been carried out on the overall user experience including emotional aspects. To comparatively analyze the user experience with the CA interface and remote control unit (RCU) interface, we adopted physiological measurements for objective data as well as self-report questionnaires. Among the physiological measurement results, skin conductance (SC) differed between CA and RCU interactions. SC was high at the beginning of the CA interaction but decreased over time. In RCU sessions, SC maintained a constant value or rather increased. In the self-reporting results, the ergonomic quality of the RCU was higher than that of the CA. However, CA was evaluated more positively in terms of hedonic quality. CA had a greater effect on the overall attractiveness while having more emotional appeal. Additionally, a partial correlation between objective data and self-report results could be observed. In sum, subjective self-reports showed that CA provides a more positive TV UX with regard to emotional aspects. Physiological measurement results provide objective data for further understanding user experience by showing specific differences in cognitive involvement and emotional response changes during user interactions.

Maternal cumulative prevalence measures of child mortality show heavy burden in sub-Saharan Africa

We advance a set of population-level indicators that quantify the prevalence of mothers who have ever experienced an infant, under 5-y-old child, or any-age child die. The maternal cumulative prevalence of infant mortality (mIM), the maternal cumulative prevalence of under 5 mortality (mU5M), and the maternal cumulative prevalence of offspring mortality (mOM) bring theoretical and practical value to a variety of disciplines. Here we introduce maternal cumulative prevalence measures of mortality for multiple age groups of mothers in 20 sub-Saharan African countries with Demographic and Health Surveys data spanning more than two decades. The exercise demonstrates the persistently high prevalence of African mothers who have ever experienced a child die. In some African countries, more than one-half of 45- to 49-y-old mothers have experienced the death of a child under age 5, and nearly two-thirds have experienced the death of any child, irrespective of age. Fewer young mothers have experienced a child die, yet in many countries, up to one-third have. Our results show that the mIM and mU5M can follow distinct trajectories from the infant mortality rate (IMR) and under 5 mortality rate (U5MR), offering an experiential view of mortality decline that annualized measures conceal. These measures can be adapted to quantify the prevalence of recurrent offspring mortality (mROM) and calculated for subgroups to identify within-country inequality in the mortality burden. These indicators can be used to improve current understandings of mortality change, bereavement as a public health threat, and population dynamics.

Loaded objects: addressing gun violence through art in the gallery and beyond

Gun violence impacts our experience of public spaces, including how we represent and memorialize tragic events stemming from guns in public ways. Immediate memorials, complete with flowers and other ephemera, frequently appear at the sites of gun violence, at times to be followed by permanent memorials with contemplative spaces and names of victims etched in stone. While communicating loss and grief, both of these strategies usually evade any real political action or consideration of the complexities of gun violence or its causes. Mirroring the stalemate in our political dialogue around guns and their proliferation, our dominant strategies of memorialization similarly offer little more than “thoughts and prayers”. In what ways can contemporary art break through these evasions and even prompt dialogue or change around the complex array of issues that arise with the increased presence of guns in American society? How can art generate experiences for viewers that allow for a more complex consideration of gun-related violence than the cycle of grief seen in immediate and permanent memorials? In this paper, I survey works of art that produce possibilities for transformative conversation around the issue by considering guns as what Bruno Latour calls “actants”. I begin by examining guns in the gallery, first offering a new readings of Chris Burden’s Shoot (1971) and Marina Abramović’s Rhythm 0 (1974), both of which notoriously included real firearms, and then turning to sculptural projects that literally disarm guns, rendering them deliberately strange and prompting complex conversations about their material presence in American life. I then shift focus towards the public sphere to consider works by Krzysztof Wodiczko, Jenny Holzer, and Michael Rakowitz, artists who rewire established circuits of monumental commemoration, public space advertising, and vernacular immediate memorials to generate a sense of distance, and even a safe space for dialogue in the public realm.

Assessing the Usability, Appeal, and Impact of a Web-Based Training for Adults Responding to Concerning Posts on Social Media: Pilot Suicide Prevention Study.

BackgroundSuicide prevention remains challenging among youth, as many do not disclose suicidal ideation. Nearly one-third of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI and AN, tribal, or native) youth see concerning messages on social media at least weekly.ObjectiveTo prepare adults to support AI and AN youth who post or view concerning messages, our team designed an hour-long training: Responding to Concerning Posts on Social Media. This study tested the usability, appeal, and impact of the training.MethodsA purposive sample of 70 adults was recruited to participate in the pilot, which included 2 study arms. Arm 1 participants completed a 30-min training video and reviewed accompanying handouts, including the Viewer Care Plan (VCP). The VCP provided a 3-step planning and response tool: (1) Start the Conversation, (2) Listen, Gather Information, and Assess Viewer Experience, and (3) Plan and Act. The intent of the VCP was to support and connect AI and AN youth who either view or post concerning messages on social media to life-saving resources. Those enrolled in arm 2 participated in an additional interactive role-play scenario with a coach that took place after the training, via text message. Participants provided qualitative and quantitative feedback on the training’s relevance, appeal, and utility. Paired t tests were used to assess confidence in addressing concerning posts between pre- and postsurveys. Content analysis of the role-play transcripts was used to assess the quality and completion of the coached role-plays, in relation to the recommended VCP.ResultsAltogether, 35 participants finished the training and completed pre- and postsurveys; 22 participants completed the 6-month follow-up survey. Pre-post analyses of differences in means found significant improvement across several efficacy measures, including confidence starting a conversation about social media (P=.003), confidence contacting the person who posted something concerning (P<.001), and confidence recommending support services to youth who view (P=.001) or youth who post concerning messages (P<.001). Similarly, pre- to 6-month analyses found significant positive improvement across multiple measures, including confidence contacting the youth who posted (P<.001), confidence starting a conversation about social media with youth (P=.003), and an increase in the number of experiences recommending resources for youth who viewed concerning social media posts (P=.02). Of the 3 steps of the VCP, the least followed step in coached role-plays was sharing tools and resources, which is a part of the third Plan and Act step.ConclusionsFindings indicate that the Responding to Concerning Posts on Social Media training is a promising tool to prepare adults to intervene and complete the VCP. Additional evaluation with a larger cohort of participants is needed to determine the unique impact of the role-play scenario and changes in mental health referral rates, behaviors, and skills.

A priority and path diversity-based approach for media streaming over multi-hop and unreliable networks

Despite the recent advances, media streaming over multi-hop unreliable networks, such as the internet and wireless packet networks, is still challenging because of the dynamic and unpredictable nature of these networks. This paper proposes an approach that exploits paths' redundancies offered by multi-hop networks along with the differential sensitivity inherent in the encoded video information to enhance the quality of experience of video viewers in terms of the continuity of video playback, without compromising the quality of the reconstructed video. The performance of the proposed priority-and-path-diversity-based (PPD) video transmission scheme is compared through simulations with a best effort streaming model that mimics today's internet as well as a priority-based queuing streaming model that can be used in multi-hop wireless networks. The simulation results show that the proposed PPD streaming model outperforms the other two streaming models not only in the achieved video quality, as represented by the average peak signal to noise ratio, but also in terms of the average end-to-end delay and losses which are reflected by the instantaneous occupancy of the playback buffer at the viewer side.

A priority and path diversity-based approach for media streaming over multi-hop and unreliable networks

Despite the recent advances, media streaming over multi-hop unreliable networks, such as the internet and wireless packet networks, is still challenging because of the dynamic and unpredictable nature of these networks. This paper proposes an approach that exploits paths' redundancies offered by multi-hop networks along with the differential sensitivity inherent in the encoded video information to enhance the quality of experience of video viewers in terms of the continuity of video playback, without compromising the quality of the reconstructed video. The performance of the proposed priority-and-path-diversity-based (PPD) video transmission scheme is compared through simulations with a best effort streaming model that mimics today's internet as well as a priority-based queuing streaming model that can be used in multi-hop wireless networks. The simulation results show that the proposed PPD streaming model outperforms the other two streaming models not only in the achieved video quality, as represented by the average peak signal to noise ratio, but also in terms of the average end-to-end delay and losses which are reflected by the instantaneous occupancy of the playback buffer at the viewer side.

Open our visualization eyes, individualization: On Albrecht Dürer’s 1515 wood cut celestial charts

The position that visualization is an intimate part of human existence and associated with the human species is advanced in this work: visualization abounds delimited by the space of individuality across human history. Visualization involves two complementary aspects of the uniqueness deemed of individuals: individualization reflects individuals’ capabilities and personalization reflects designs that seek compatibility with individuals’ capabilities. This has a number of implications upon the design and evaluation of visualizations. For one, a suitable visualization model that expresses individualization and personalization is needed: a brief survey of models is presented. For another, addressing intellectual uniqueness requires deep analysis and selective objective balance due to the potentially humongous number of unique ideas that support visualization design and viewer experiences. The Engineering Insightful Serviceable Visualizations model is selected as a guide for a comprehensive visualization evaluation of Albrecht Dürer’s 1515 celestial charts. Motivating this choice of visualization is its significance as the first notable and influential European star chart intended for scientific use and mass viewership, and as a blending of science and art. In addition, there is a lack of discussion concerning this particular visualization in the visualization literature. Concluding remarks suggest the significance of approaching visualization from this point-of-view.

&lt;em&gt;Screen Stories&lt;/em&gt;: Responses to the Critics

This article is a discussion of and rejoinder to the comments of three respondents on my book, Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement. Jane Stadler argues that the book would profit from more attention to the “temporal prolongation” made possible by multi-episode television, especially as it relates to the nature of character engagement. While I have reservations about the notion of medium specificity in relation to television and film (and thus prefer the term “screen stories”), I agree that temporal prolongation in relation to an ethics of screen stories is a vital topic. Malcolm Turvey argues that Screen Stories promotes moral intuition and emotion at the expense of moral reasoning and that an ethics of engagement should pay equal attention to reasoning. In my response, I enumerate four reasons why, despite my belief in the importance of reasoning, I focus on emotion and intuition. I do agree that, once we can decide just what moral reasoning is, it should become a focus of an ethics of engagement. Cynthia Freeland focuses her remarks on various aspects of the third part of my book, “The Contours of Engagement,” in which I examine how the features of screen stories can lead to viewer experiences with ethical implications. In response, I discuss three issues: medium specificity once more, the supposed tension between conceptions of the active and passive spectator, and the psychological underpinnings of various sorts of character engagement.

The Past and the Future of Competitiveness Research: A Review in an Emerging Context of Innovation and EMNEs

Fields of strategy, competitiveness, and international business research are evolving steadily as more vexing challenges emerge and demand innovation. Key objective of this study is to longitudinally review literature on competitiveness and innovation to identify future sustainable directions. We adapt a systematic literature review approach to discern patterns in individual fields and at the intersection. This, complemented by review of patterns of trends in contributions by select countries and longitudinal experiential view of more than a quarter century of journey of author across select countries, provided new insights. We use the insights to evolve high-potential future topics for research, clustered by contexts, theory, and practices. This review—at the interfaces of theory and practice, and fields across disciplines—will help readers understand the gaps and explore opportunities for research projects in new directions. Synthesis of findings at the interface would facilitate pathways to further research and practice to enhance competitiveness across levels and sustainability.