Behavioural finance and immersive games

This paper uses data from a program of customer interviews and focus group research conducted by the Australian government to develop an electronic services evaluation and design framework. A proven theory building approach has been used to develop and confirm the various components of electronic government (e-government) use and satisfaction from original government studies conducted in Australia and to create the new evaluation framework. Building on the extant e-government literature, the reintroduction of the original data into the framework yielded some emergent observations and insights for future e-government design, including the somewhat paradoxical importance of human contacts and interactions in electronic channels, service efficiency and process factors that impinge on customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction, and a potential growth trajectory for telephony based e-government for older segments of the community.

Over two decades, a great expectation on digital museums has been addressed, but most implementation platform has been Web technologies. Emerging second life which supports rich communication, virtual collaboration, and 3D content creation has carried out a new platform of digital museums. This paper investigates the requirement of idealized digital museums to improve the percentage of returning visitors and to impress the first-time visitors. The framework for design and evaluation of digital museums in second life as learning institutions is elaborated and discussed in the paper.

Industrial work is changing due to the fourth industrial revolution (Kagermann, 2013). The work will become more mediated when new technologies emerge in factories (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence and augmented reality). During this change, it is important to consider human factors (HF) issues holistically when developing and implementing novel digital solutions. Often, HF methods such as questionnaires are focusing on a certain topic related to the development of the solution (e.g., usability, acceptance). However, in industrial work context, there are many different HF issues that should be considered when designing a human-technology interaction. To address this lack of a quick and holistic questionnaire, a WorkerFeedback questionnaire was developed through a Design and Evaluation Framework (Kaasinen et al., 2018), literature review and expert validation. The questionnaire development was based on the Design and Evaluation Framework, which supports design and evaluation of digital solutions that will be used by future factory workers (Kaasinen et al., 2018). The framework is useful for providing an overview to important user experience related issues and it is a holistic approach to design and evaluation tasks. The literature review was based on the HF topics that are related to the success of implementing new technology on to the factory floor. Several questionnaires were reviewed related to following topics: user experience, usability, user acceptance, usefulness, ergonomics, safety and ethics. Questionnaires were used as a basis to generate a 14-item questionnaire – two questions for each topic. The questionnaire was validated by an expert panel, which included three human factors experts with over 15 years of experience of user studies, mainly in industrial contexts. They were asked to review, for example, the adequacy of the topics and the formulation of the questions.The expert panel agreed that their overall impression of the questionnaire was good. The suggested seven topics were seen to be relevant for the context. Majority of the feedback was related to the formulation of the questions and making them easier to understand. Based on the experts’ feedback, the questions were shaped to their final form. In future, the WorkerFeedback questionnaire will be piloted with the actual digital solution users. The WorkerFeedback questionnaire was developed to smoothen the digital transition in industry and to support human-technology interaction design. The questionnaire can be used by HF experts as well as practitioners who want to get a holistic overview of developed digital solutions or solutions under development for work context.

The goals and objectives of a project as well as the needs, requirements and expectations of the project stakeholders may contradict or non-fulfillment of them may have different detrimental and negative consequences for the project. Therefore, project stakeholders should be effectively managed, but it is not possible to satisfy all project stakeholders and meet all of their expectations and requirements. As a result, project team must strike a balance between the project goals and objectives and the needs, requirements and expectations of the project stakeholders in order to complete the project successfully. Despite highlighting the significant importance of project stakeholder management, there exists a notable gap in exerting an effective decision support system to adopt stakeholder engagement strategies particularly in oil and gas construction projects. This study proposes a comprehensive framework for the identification, prioritization and selection of the stakeholder engagement strategies in one of the large size oil and gas construction projects in Iran. In this paper, a hybrid method which is the combination of the SWOT (strengths, weakness, opportunities and threat) analysis and fuzzy Delphi method is first exploited for identifying the appropriate stakeholder engagement strategies. Subsequently, fuzzy SWARA (Step-wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis) is employed to weight the crucial criteria, and finally, fuzzy WASPAS (Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment) is utilized to prioritize the identified stakeholder engagement strategies. This research contributes to the body of knowledge on project stakeholder management by presenting a novel framework for identifying, ranking and selecting the suitable strategies for effective stakeholder engagement considering one of the largest oil and gas construction projects in the country. The value of this study is in applicability of the proposed methodology for project managers and practitioners in other oil and gas construction projects.

Development of Social Responsibility Evaluation Framework of Construction Projects: A Multi-stakeholders Perspective

Future factory work is developing towards knowledge work, making it more demanding but also more enriched and flexible. The change described as Operator 4.0 has high potential to increase work well-being but it will require careful design of future factory tools and work practices focusing on the worker point of view. We introduce a design and evaluation framework that supports design, evaluation and impact assessment activities that target at Operator 4.0 solutions with a positive impact on work well-being.

Biofeedback therapy trains the patient to control voluntarily the involuntary process of their body. This non-invasive and non-drug treatment is also used as a means to rehabilitate the physical impairments that may follow a stroke, a traumatic brain injury or even in neurological aspects within occupational therapy. The idea behind this study is based on using immersive gaming as a tool for physical rehabilitation that combines the idea of biofeedback and physical computing to get a patient emotionally involved in a game that requires them to do the exercises in order to interact with the game. This game is aimed towards addressing the basic treatment for ‘Frozen Shoulder’. In this work, the physical motions are captured by the wearable ultrasonic sensor attached temporarily to the various limbs of the patient. The data received from the sensors are then sent to the game via serial wireless communication. There are two main aspects to this study: motion capturing and game design. The current status of the application is a single ultrasonic detector. The experimental result shows that physio-therapeutic patients are benefited through the IoT based virtual reality game.

Driven by both the digital economy and the strategy of building a culturally powerful country, domestic games are becoming an important carrier for the inheritance and innovation of outstanding traditional Chinese culture. The integrated model of “culture + technology” has provided immersive cultural cognitive scenarios for the Generation Z youth group. This study focuses on the influence mechanism of Generation Z college students’ preferences for traditional cultural elements in domestic games. Based on the data of 503 valid questionnaires from universities in Shanghai, it comprehensively applies statistical methods such as cluster analysis, structural equation model (SEM), and principal component analysis (PCA) to systematically analyze the chained action paths of cultural identity, emotional resonance, and game immersion, and reveals the stratified characteristics of the player group and the priority of the demand for traditional cultural elements. The aim is to provide theoretical support and strategic suggestions for the cultural empowerment practice of the game industry. This research empirically verifies the innovative value of games as a carrier of the symbiosis between technology and culture. It puts forward the hierarchical strategy of cultural elements to promote the integration of design responsibilities and reveals the cultural acceptance mechanism of the next-generation users, thus providing a basis for the balance of multicultural creation. The research results expand the theoretical framework of art design in social changes and simultaneously respond to the core issues of the conference regarding technology empowerment, sustainable development and interdisciplinary cultural integration.

Sociotechnical systems as a framework for regulatory system design and evaluation: Using Work Domain Analysis to examine a new regulatory system

The key idea of the book is that scientific and practical advances can be obtained if researchers working in traditions that have been assumed to be mutually incompatible make a real effort to engage in dialogue with each other, comparing and contrasting their understandings of a given phenomenon and how these different understandings can either complement or mutually elaborate on each other. This key idea applies to many fields, particularly in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as education and computer science. The book shows how we have achieved this by presenting our study of collaborative learning during the course of a four-year project. Through a series of five workshops involving dozens of researchers, the 37 editors and authors involved in this project studied and reported on collaborative learning, technology enhanced learning, and cooperative work. The authors share an interest in understanding group interactions, but approach this topic from a variety of traditional disciplinary homes and theoretical and methodological traditions. This allows the book to be of use to researchers in many different fields and with many different goals and agendas.

This study develops and validates a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) framework to assess the social support level of elderly–child composite spaces. Grounded in social support theory, POE theory, and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the framework comprises 2 core dimensions (instrumental support and emotional support), 6 first-level indicators, and 29 s-level indicators. The indicators were constructed through literature analysis, field research, and other methods, with weights determined via the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) involving 10 interdisciplinary experts. Weighting results indicate that instrumental support (0.6208) carries greater importance than emotional support (0.3792); among first-level indicators, “accessibility and safety” (under instrumental support) and “degree of demand satisfaction” (under emotional support) rank highest. The framework was applied to 12 typical spaces across 4 categories in Hangzhou’s Minsheng Complexes (a community-integrated public service model). Empirical results show that infant–toddler growth stations achieved the highest scores (82.86–86.42), while community living rooms performed the weakest (78.96–81.21), with “function–need mismatch” identified as the core issue. This evaluation system provides a scientific basis for spatial diagnosis, optimization, and high-quality planning of elderly-child composite spaces in the future.

Efficiency, equity, and sustainability in a water quantity–quality optimization model in the Rio Grande basin

Effective teaching critically relies upon effective evaluation because evaluation is required to gain understanding of existing abilities and, in turn, determine learning outcomes. Methods of effective evaluation are surprisingly elusive in many fields and this limits our understanding of which training methods are truly effective. In the present article, issues of effective evaluation are discussed in the context of "brain training," an exciting but much criticized field. Problems in test validity in the field of brain training, parallel those in many other fields; such as deficiencies in test reliability, teaching to the test, expectation effects, as well as statistical rigor. Here we review these issues and discuss how commonalities between the goals of evaluation and adaptive training procedures suggest a new paradigm that synthesizes evaluation and training. We suggest that continuous evaluation, where testing is integrated into the training, may provide a path towards greater reliability of skill evaluation, through longitudinal sampling, and validity, through better alignment of evaluation activities in respect to learning objectives.

During the last decade, we have witnessed an increased interest in social play in digital games. With this comes an urge to understand better how to design and evaluate for this new form of play. In this chapter, we encapsulate best practices for game design and evaluation, grounded in other game researchers’ work, as well as our own research and practice. We focus on a sub-area of social games that has experienced great growth and has attracted general interest in research and in practice. It is also the area that has driven our own research: co-located, physical, and social play that is technology supported. In this overview, we provide a sense of the challenges and opportunities involved when designing for this particular area, using good empirical grounding and presenting a framework in the form of lenses through which to think about the design of co-located physical social games.

Collaboration between key project stakeholders lies at the heart of the construction industry’s workflows. Perhaps more than in any other industry, effective collaboration is essential for the success of a construction project. Project stakeholders come together to deliver a project only to move on to the next project, where a new set of stakeholders need to collaborate afresh. This transitory nature of construction projects puts a particular onus on the stakeholders to develop a rapport and collaborative working practices rather quickly in order to make a success of the project at hand. There are a multitude of issues that come into play giving rise to various kinds of technical and human behaviour-related challenges that need to be addressed to implement an effective collaboration between the stakeholders. Building information modelling (BIM) has emerged as a credible enabler of such collaboration in this industry. However, several challenges still remain. This chapter provides the background to models of collaboration before giving an outline of BIM-based processes and other technological issues that need to come together to address some of these challenges in relation to collaboration. This knowledge helps in selecting appropriate collaboration models in large projects involving many team members. It also provides the foundation for research in advanced methods for enhancing the performance of collaborative processes.