Creating a virtual support group in an interactive narrative:a companionship game for cancer patients

Over one in five cancer patients are affected by feelings of loneliness [1]. This paper proposes a text-based game aimed at affected cancer patients, in which the player develops relationships with non-player characters in the context of a fictitious cancer support group. This would be designed with the aim of alleviating patient loneliness and fostering a sense of companionship. This work is part of an interdisciplinary project led by Abertay University and partnered with Macmillan Cancer Support, exploring the ways in which interactive storytelling can be used to support cancer patients. The game’s narrative and characters will be designed drawing on real patient experiences gathered in interviews. The game will go through several iterations of feedback and rewriting in response to focus groups held with patients and healthcare professionals.</p

Strategi Dewan Pimpinan Daerah II Partai Golongan Karya pada Pemilihan Umum Legislatif di Kabupaten Siak Tahun 2014

This study examines the Golkar Party victory in legislative elections in Siak 2014 and are the focus of this research is what strategy the Regional Leadership Council II Golkar Party to win the election. The focus of this research is the influence of regents to win the election in 2014. In this study, the use of qualitative methods for descriptive analysis of the data presented in the form of qualitative portrait of the real situation in detail and the actual look at the problem and research objectives. This study using purposive sampling and interviewing informants as information objects that aims to achieve the goal to get the information in this study. Data used in this study are primary data and secondary data.The results showed in making the strategy undertaken by the leadership of the Regional Council II Golkar Party in legislative elections in Siak 2014, there are several strategies undertaken by the Regional Executive Council II Golkar Party of which recruit potential legislative candidates won the election, forming network Success Team in each district, featuring issues appropriate to their own desires to the community, district head in the direction of Regents of the Golkar Party.Keywords: Strategy, Political Party, Golka

Responsivitas Walikota Terhadap Permasalahan Yang Terjadi Di Kota Pekanbaru Tahun 2015-2017

This research is intended to know the evaluation of society to responsiveness of Mayor of Pekanbaru in overcoming the problem of relocation of street hawker in lotus street and waste management. This study focused on the response of Mayor to the public on the complaints of the services provided. Based on the background of the problem, this study aims to know and analyze the responsiveness of the mayor to the problems that occurred in the city of Pekanbaru 2015-2017. The research method used in this research is qualitative descriptive, with data collection techniques used is through observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of the field study showed that the assessment of street vendors in the lotus street and the people of Pekanbaru city to the responsiveness of the Mayor still not fully in accordance with the wishes society, This can be seen the results of research, observation and interviews that have been done by the author of six indicators of responsiveness by Zetihaml. The mayor has not met the indicators properly. From the results analyzed the authors pointed out that the lack of maximum service given by Mayor is due to lack of seriousness, speed, timeliness, and accuracy He in providing services to street vendors and people of Pekanbaru city. while for indicators of attitude and communication, as well as access provided by Mayor has been considered good because of his hospitality and the provision of access for people who want to complain to him. So in this study the authors concluded that the level of responsiveness Walikota Not fully responsive in responding to any complaints from the community for services that have been given

Dukungan Dan Persepsi Masyarakat Terhadap Wacana Pemekaran Rumbai Tahun 2014

Regional divisions do not automatically provide prosperity for the region as mandated by laws and regulations and decentralization. expansion success stories tend to be less when compared with the current reality, many negative impacts of the expansion area. District of Rumbai desire to secede from the city of Pekanbaru ignited from uneven development reasons. and in terms of the administrative and technical requirements. Tassel not feasible to secede from the city of Pekanbaru. Tassel bloom always echoed in one of the mass media ie newspapers Riau many community newspapers and community leaders who support Rumbai to bloom, but after research conducted by the author turns largely Tassel community do not support the expansion of the Rumbai. of the phenomenon researchers are keen to gauge support and public perception in discourse Tassel expansion plan with the title "the support and the perception public the discourse of division Rumbai". Which became the basis of the problem where after doing field research, the authors found that support the expansion plan Rumbi only 46% while 54% do not support . Many people actually do not approve Rumbi division occurs, but sebahagian public figure and the originator of the division continued to echo the expansion plan Tassel, without knowing more in natural resources and human resources Rumbai. Theory (approach) that I use as a tool of analysis in this research is the theory of the Expansion of Regional and community participation, whereas the method used is a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods (mixed methods). Namely data collection techniques by Random sampling by taking a random sample of the entire community Rumbai andRumbaipesisir. Conclusions of this study is the emergence of a discourse division Rumbai not fully aspirations of its people, but there are other interests of the candidates to get voice support in legislative elections in 2014 by ignoring some of the process PP 78 in 2007. Key words: Community Participation, Public Perception and Discourse Regional Expansion Key words: Community Participation, Public Perception and Discourse Regional Expansio

Perencanaan Pembangunan di Kecamatan Langgam Tahun 2012

The result of development planning in the district of Langgam in 2012 shows that there ara many planning proposals from the public who are not accommodated well, the proposal in the absence of the proposed project from the bottom, and the approach is top-down planning.The purpose of study is to determine the development planning in the district of Langgam and find out the cause of why the district development planning of Langgam patterned top-down planning.This research used descriptive qualitative research method. The primary data obtained through interview with people who understood local development planning; The secondary data obtained from relevant agencies such as District Office of Langgam and District Development Planning of Regency Pelalawan.The results found that; First, many proposal of public who are not accomodated and not realized by local governments, and inversely proportional to the proposed project arrived-suddenly appread at the end of the discussion of regional development planning. Second, the development planning process that lead to top-down approach, the cause is as follows: First, the public regarded as supporters of the planner is not executing. Second, planning is the desire of the public is not a necessity. Third, the interests of the elite.The Lat, the presence of resource constraints.Key words: Development Planning, District of Langgam, Communit

Analisis Faktor Pendukung Kemenangan Calon Legislatif Perempuan Partai Golongan Karya di Daerah Pemilihan III Kabupaten Karimun Provinsi Kepulauan Riau Tahun 2014

The existence of woman in Indonesia parliament is still far from insufficient. Woman Legislators either in central or region of parliament has not indicate any significant growth. The electoral support is become one of the capital required of woman candidates to compete in elections. In Karimun, a region from Province of Riau Island recorded only three candidates were succeed to become the legislator as one of them able to achieve significant vote. Based on the background of these problems researcher interested to conduct more in-depth study on Winning Factor of a Woman Candidate Golongan Karya Party in District III Karimun Region Riau Island Province. The method used in this study is a qualitative research method. From the research that has been made known that the required capital with a good management could make a candidate take the victory in Legislative Election. The capital is divided into three part as known as social capital, political capital, and economic capital.The three based capital with prudent management is able to give victory to candidates. Keywords : Candidate, Capital , Parliamentary, Woman Keywords : Candidate, Capital , Parliamentary, Woma

Rekrutmen Politik Partai Hati Nurani Rakyat (Hanura) Pada Pemilihan Umum Legislatif Di Kota Pekanbaru Tahun 2014

Political parties have a position and a very important role in the democratic system. Political parties play a role as a strategic link between the processes of government to citizens. Every political party has a different recruitment pattern, where the pattern of recruitment of party members adapted to the political system that was followed. In recruiting candidates for legislative in 2014, DPC Hanura Pekanbaru city does not provide equal opportunities to all citizens melain to Hanura own cadres and cadres of the Party coalition to compete in the process of selecting candidates for legislative. The theory used is the mechanism for recruitment of Czudnowski (in Fadillah Son, 2003) which has two properties, namely: open and closed. By using three indicators, namely: the provision of recruitment, criteria and control candidates for legislative. The type of approach used is qualitative by using the case study method to describe and analyze patterns of recruitment DPC HANURA Party. Subject is Hanura give freedom or the same opportunity to the party cadres coalition to Hanura to become candidates for legislative. Keywords: Political parties, Political Recruitment, Candidates for Legislativ

Hubungan Faktor Sosiologis dan Faktor Psikologis terhadap Perilaku Memilih Masyarakat pada Pemilihan Kepala Daerah Pelalawan Tahun 2015 di Kecamatan Bandar Petalangan (Studi Kasus Desa Lubuk Keranji Timur dan Desa Kuala Semundam)

The process of writing this research is based on a point of view the writer to examine the phenomenon of society in Bandar Petalangan District in the local election of 2015. Through Pelalawan Regency seeing the behavior characterictics one district of two villages with different tendencies and their significant participation in Deciding the selection of the cadidates. This research uses a quantitative correlation a contingency approach to correlate the two approaches in the school of Michigan, the Sociological and Psychological Approach to the behavior of voters in the voting at the location of the object of research. Primary Data were collected through a survey and analysis of documents. Data processing was performed using the program Statistic Package For Social Science (SPSS). Then the data is processed through the Crostabbulation by Chi-square test to see relationships and correlations contingency to see the relationship between the variables studied. The results of this study there was no significant relationship between voting behavior of district community Bandar Petalangan on the elections, Palalawan 2015 based on gender, age, religion, education (Sociological factors) and the factor of the issues that developed, the image of the personality and leadership experience (Psychological factors). While the Researchers found no relationship between behavioral subsequently chose to sociological factors, based on ethnic identity, income level and psychological factors in the identification of party and candidate to the district community programs in local elections Bandar Petalangan Palalawan, 2015

Etnisitas dalam Politik (Studi Tentang Strategi Calon Legislatif Etnis Batak dalam Pemilihan Umum Legislatif di Daerah Pemilihan Siak 4 Kabupaten Siak Tahun 2014)

This research aims to see the victory of the Batak ethnic candidates in legislative elections in the electoral district Siak 4 on 2014 and the focus of this research is how the political strategy of the Batak ethnic candidates in the legislative elections unum. Besides that are the focus of this research was the influence of ethnic communities in the Batak winning candidates in the electoral district Siak 4 on the Siak district legislative elections in 2014. In this research, using qualitative methods, then to describe the data presented in the form of qualitative describe the real situation in detail and the actual look at the problem and research objectives. This research using purposive sampling and interviewing informants as objects of information that aims to achieve the purpose of obtaining information in the study. The type of data used in this research are primary and secondaryThe results showed in pursuing a strategy undertaken by candidates Batak in legislative elections in the constituency Siak 4 on 2014, there are several strategies undertaken by candidates Batak ethnic like using the communication strategy of groups, communication between individuals and the use of media outside. Role Batak ethnic communities so strongly that a strategy candidates utilizing ethnic Batak in legislative elections in the electoral district in Siak 4 on 2014. So that the ethnic Batak utilization strategy undertaken by candidates of ethnic BatakKey Words: Politic Strategic, Legislative Election, Batak Etni