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The Hungarian Journalism Education Landscape
The paper offers and overview of jouornalism education in Hungary with a focus on the discrepancies between the curriculum and the needs of the media industry
Proceedings of the SAB'06 Workshop on Adaptive Approaches for Optimizing Player Satisfaction in Computer and Physical Games
We were motivated by the current state-of-the-art in intelligent game design using adaptive approaches. Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are mainly focused on generating human-like and intelligent character behaviors. Meanwhile there is generally little further analysis of whether these behaviors contribute to the satisfaction of the player. The implicit hypothesis motivating this research is that intelligent opponent behaviors enable the player to gain more satisfaction from the game. This hypothesis may well be true; however, since no notion of entertainment or enjoyment is explicitly defined, there is therefore little evidence that a specific character behavior generates enjoyable games. Our objective for holding this workshop was to encourage the study, development, integration, and evaluation of adaptive methodologies based on richer forms of humanmachine interaction for augmenting gameplay experiences for the player. We wanted to encourage a dialogue among researchers in AI, human-computer interaction and psychology disciplines who investigate dissimilar methodologies for improving gamepla
Forthcoming “Social and Economic Transformation in the Digital Era”
[DRAFT: Please do not quote without the permission of the authors.] The authors would like to thank Kenneth J. Johnson for gathering information and for his general assistance in preparing this chapter. 1
Social and economic analyses of consumer panel data
'Eine von der Abteilung Einkommen und Verbrauch von ZUMA organisierte Arbeitsgruppe hat sich mit datentechnischem Handling und Analysepotential von komplexen Verbraucherpaneldaten, am Beispiel des ConsumerScan Haushaltspanels der Gesellschaft fuer Marktforschung (GfK, Nuernberg) beschaeftigt und die Ergebnisse in einem Symposium im Oktober 1999 vorgestellt. Die ueberwiegende Zahl der vorgetragenen Arbeiten, die man als Werkstattberichte ansehen kann, sind in diesem Band 7 der ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial abgedruckt. Neben einem detallierten Einblick in die Praxis und das Datenerhebungsprogramm von Verbraucherpanels, wie sie z.B. bei der Marktforschungen der GfK unterhalten werden, enthaelt der Band Untersuchungen zu Fragen der Flexibilitaet von Preisbildungsvorgaengen, des Lebensstils im alltaeglichen Konsums, der Gesundheitsorientierung im Konsumverhalten, der Umweltorientierung und ihrer Umsetzung im Kauf alltaeglicher Haushaltungsprodukte, der Gewohnheitsbildung und Risikoorientierung bei Kaufentscheidungen sowie der sozio-oekonomischen Einbettung des Kaufs spezieller Produkte wie z.B. alkoholischer Getraenke. Diese Untersuchungen bieten zahlreiche Anknuepfungspunkte fuer grundlagen-und anwendungsorientierte Fragen der Konsumforschung mit Verbraucherpaneldaten.' (Autorenreferat). Inhaltsverzeichnis: Hans-Georg Prester: Consumer Panel Research of GfK; Hartmut Luedtke, Joerg Schneider: Can patterns of everyday consumption indicate lifestyles? A secondary analysis of expenditures for fast moving goods and their social contexts; John Thoegersen: Is a sustainable consumption pattern gradually emerging in Germany? Gradual changesin the sustainability of the consumption pattern analyzed by means of a consumer panel; Dieter Ohr: Purchasing healthy food in germany. An empirical analysis of its attitudinal andsocio-economic antecedents; Matthias Fengler, Joachim Winter: Price-setting and price-adjustment behavior for fast-moving consumer goods; Norbert F. Schneider, Doris Rosenkranz, Kerstin Hartmann: Living arragements and consumption. Plead for lifestyle oriented market research; Georgios Papastefanou: Household's income situation and consumption of alcoholic beverages; Roger Berger: Consumer panel data and rational chocie based theories of myopic habit formation. An empirical analysis; Uwe Fachinger: Continuity or discontinuity in the decision of the application of income of private households?; Yasemin Boztug, Lutz Hildebrand: Nonparametric modeling of buying behavior in fast moving consumer goods markets; Georgios Papastefanou: The ZUMA data file version of the GfK ConsumerScan Household Panel; Terms of Agreement/ EinverstaendniserklaerungGerman title: Wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen von Panel-DatenAvailable from Zentrum fuer Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen -ZUMA-, Mannheim (DE) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman