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Virtual reality technology has become one of the most emerging tools to enhance and stimulate user engagement. In the sector of cultural heritage, particularly for students and tourists, virtual reality application functions as a platform of learning and experiencing of cultural events through restoring historic sites and placing user in virtual interactive environments so that user is able to explore,...
The combination of different knowledge bases in the field of information retrieval is called federated or aggregated search. It has several benefits over single source retrieval but poses some challenges as well. This work focuses on the challenge of result aggregation; especially in a setting where the final result list should include some level of diversity and serendipity. Both concepts have been...
This paper examines the critical importance of time to the experience of place and argues that time-based virtual heritage creates more engaging and affective virtual places supporting rich learning opportunities for heritage audiences. It examines the experience of place, heritage place and virtual place as instanced in state-of-the-art computer games. It discusses the use of heritage visualisation...
One prerequisite for cultural analysis in large-scale digital libraries is an accurate estimate of the date of composition of the text-as distinct from the date of publication of an edition-for the works they contain. In this work, we present a manually annotated dataset of first dates of publication of three samples of books from the HathiTrust Digital Library (uniform random, uniform fiction, and...
Local culture is important historical stories which the local development is based upon. Multicultural stories are an important accumulation of life and the core of settlement development. During the Japanese occupation period, the important cultural asset “Alishan Forest Railway” was built in “Zhuqi”, the area of this study which affected the development of the entire Chiayi City. This study starts...
The purpose of this research is to address the issue of diversity in the design world, exposing the need for revising our current paradigms. This study examines current events and data from the tech and creative industry that show a glaring lack of diversity in the field, and explains how this hinders creativity and innovation. This essay pairs theory and evidence to reveal that the best pathway to...
Domestic and international research on design trend regarded user experience as the vital issue, stressed on user perception (experience), and had users perceive that the aesthetic perception of “pleasure” was a primary issue in research on design. Consequently, “marketing experience” in experience economy, “user experience” in human-computer interaction, and the theory of “experience aesthetics”...
As the starting point of Alishan Forest Railway, Chiayi City became prosperous because of the development of forestry. With a long history of metropolitan development, it has many heritage sites in the downtown area, which have become important tourist resources. Due to the large-scale migration, the industrial decline, and the rapid social development in recent years, the cultural industries, which...
In the 1920s and 1930s, the U.S. automobile enterprise Ford made its retail debut in Taiwan and mainland China markets. At that time, Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule and had went through a series of assimilation policy; while China was in the period of semi-feudalism and semi-colonialism, a stage in which all sectors of society, from politics to economy, were invaded and controlled by foreign...
A Minor Incident is a personal creation of animated short film that reflects upon the essence of human integration. Through the comparison and combination of individual differences in existential values, this film investigates the essence of group integration. Interactions among various ethnic and cultural groups in Taiwan are presented with a metaphorical story where personification is applied in...
The development of the display software systems is used to show Hainan Li brocade pattern information, including from Li brocade pattern development history, pattern features to the display of patterns. Multimedia software Authorware is used as development tools to display Li brocade pattern information, with voice, text, images, video and other multimedia information. The software developed displays...
Xiangshan Culture is a part of Lingnan Culture and a product of the combination of Chinese and Western Culture. And its abundant connotation is still of great research and development value for us. However, the existing research on Xiangshan Culture and the way of protection is far beyond satisfaction, and moreover, the way of inheritance lacks innovation. Therefore, to carry on a technical innovation...
Use of computational methods for exploration and analysis of web archives sources is emerging in new disciplines such as digital humanities. This raises urgent questions about how such research projects process web archival material using computational methods to construct their findings. This paper aims to enable web archives scholars to document their practices systematically to improve the transparency...
Compared with Taiwan's global metropolises, Tainan retains certain history and tradition. Also because of its close proximity to the sea, it offers rich natural resources and landscapes. More importantly, in Tainan one can witness both juxtaposition and integration of past lifestyles & customs and modern popular culture, constituting a unique urban milieu that not only insists on the tradition...
The Dayan ta (Giant Wild Goose Pagoda) inside the Da Ci'en temple in the city of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China, was built by Emperor Gaozong of the Tang dynasty in the third year of Yonghui(AD 652). The pagoda was constructed to preserve the sutras and relics that the Tripitaka Master Xuanzang brought back from India. Over the past centuries, poor maintenance and multiple destructive wars have left...
This essay utilizes historical records from the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, in conjunction with historical archives and analyses performed by academic scholars, to investigate Xuanzang's trip to Central Asia and India, which produced detailed records such as number of monasteries, monastics, discussion and debate methods as well as observations of the evolvement of both Buddhism and...
Over more than one hundred years of development, film industry has witnessed the transition from silent pictures to sound motion ones, from black-and-white films to color ones and from flat films to dimensional ones. As such, a revolution of "post-film" or "digitization" is brewing and being reorganized. Animated film is unique for its style and technique of expression, which unveils...
As a kind of ancient and mysterious folk behavior art, Changle Story integrates performances, painting, history, astronomy, geography, literature, customs, and the spirit of the times. Usually, children less than ten years old wear traditional clothes, and stand on a hathpace to perform a variety of Chinese folk stories. The performance form is unique. Essentially, it is a spontaneous performance...
The purposes of this Work-in-Progress paper are to describe the evolution of a faculty-led, summer-based study abroad program and its impact on the development of student global competency skills; and to describe an on-going research study to determine students' expectations for global skills learning before going abroad and perceptions of skills actually learned while abroad. The results are being...
Retention is an issue that has been faced by many engineering colleges due to the difficulties and lack of knowledge about what it really is to be an engineer. The first 3 years of the course are particularly intense and hard. A way to overcome this period might be achieved by implementing a new kind of course, more enticing and dynamic. That is the idea of COPEC's engineering education research team,...
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