Design Factors Of Museum Navigation System On The Mobile Smart-Phone App

Due to the integration of cultural tourism and digital technology, tourists are no longer passively content with pre-arranged tours. As a system developer, one should concern about how to embed a mobile navigation system into smart phones to increase the learning experience of tourists. This study uses the visitors of National Palace Museum as research subjects and categorizes 7 design guidelines with 38 influence factors base on review of literature and analysis of personal digital navigation systems in various domestic and foreign museums. After the use of AHP (analytic hierarchy process), this study identifies that improving information quality in the mobile navigation systems and enhancing the convenience of communication between user and the system not only improve the tourist\u27s willingness to use the system but also enhance the user\u27s level of knowledge. Furthermore, when users realize the potential of enhancing knowledge by the system, they will increase the system use

A Mobile Museum Navigation System Designed For Visitors’ Usability

With the popularization of smartphone and the increasing use of mobile applications, the mobile navigation system has been widely used in museum. User satisfaction is correlated to information system usage and success. Thus it is essential that the mobile navigation system can meet the visitors’ need and create a good user experience. According to previous studies, we classify the design factors affecting visitors’ usability in museum mobile navigation system into seven main factors: connectivity, interface design, content design, user experience, marketing and promotion, exhibition space and cultural aspects. In this paper, a mobile guide system of the National Palace Museum which is designed and built on the basis of these seven factors is presented. Visitors can use the navigation system on their smartphones to read the timely information of the artifacts and the exhibitions ubiquitously, plan the desired tour routes, and share the unique experience via social media

EXPLORING CONSUMER VALUE OF CROSS-BORDER ONLINE SHOPPING: AN APPLICATION OF MEANS-END CHAIN THEORY AND MASLOW\u27S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

While online shopping websites are facing the difficulties of price and low-quality competition, cross- border online shopping is on a vigorous development trend, showing that cross-border online shopping is an important trend of online shopping field. Due to the complexity of cross-border online shopping is much higher than the traditional domestic online shopping, so understanding the value of cross-border online shopping consumers is the most important success factors. Companies want to develop new markets abroad, must understand the local consumer’s behaviour and their decision-making process in order to make good business strategies. This study uses means-end chain to construct Taiwanese cross-border online shopping consumers’ hierarchical value map, and also uses Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to sort these value elements’ importance. After obtained the reason why consumers use cross-border online shopping service and what values they got in this service. Researcher can predict and analyse the evolution and development of cross- border online shopping, provide reference for future online shopping academic studies and online shopping industry’s decision-making

From Structural Assurances to Trusting Beliefs: Validating Persuasion Principles in the Context of Online Shopping

The topic of shopping attitude has received long lasing attention in the context of e-commerce. Previous studies have elucidated the different facets of online shopping attitude and have overemphasized a prevalent assertion on the relationship between web design artifacts and consumers’ psychological responses. However, the imitability of web design in practice makes no differentiation among a glut of shopping websites and probably leads to revenue declination due to the fact that the instability of attitude frequently leads to attitudinal ambivalence. Hence, understanding how to strengthen consumers’ attitudes toward online shopping should be fruitful for remedying attitude inconsistency in e-commerce. The current study extended related research by examining the simultaneous effects of trusting beliefs on consumers’ attitudes toward online shopping. We adopted the concept of structural assurance and the principles of persuasion as the theoretical underpinnings. The proposed model is expected to contribute to relevant literature by offering theoretical contributions and managerial implications that can help both researchers and online retailers to understand more clearly how consumers develop their attitudes toward shopping online

IT Enabled Service Innovation In E-Government: The Case Of Taiwan Drug Abuse Reduction Service

Drug abuse problem is one of the toughest issues faced by governments in the world. The typical solution is every time when the drug abuse offenders are under arrest, they are jailed for a while. There is high probability that they will repeat the offense after leaving the prison. Thus, such a solution wastes lots of administrative resources from the government, yet still cannot reduce the recidivism of drug abuse. Nowadays, most countries treat drug abuse offenders as patients, and offer them substitute treatment in order to reduce the dependence on drug and also reduce the risk of infecting AIDS. The patients will go to work as a normal person, live as a normal person, and keep their human dignity. In this study, we introduce the care of Taiwan drug abuse reduction service by service blueprinting method. The service integrates several ministries of Taiwan government in signal information system, and will be triggered automatically when the drug abuse offender is leaving the prison. Subsequently, we analyze the case by the framework of Service Open System View and then provide some suggestions for improvement of the existing service. This study share the case of Taiwan drug abuse reduction service and provide the best practice of improving existing service by the view point of service science to academics

Sleep duration and patterns in Chinese older adults: A comprehensive meta-analysis

This meta-analysis examined the mean sleep duration and patterns in Chinese older adult population. A literature search was systematically conducted covering major English (PubMed, Embase and PsycINFO) and Chinese (Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), WanFang and SinoMed) databases. Data in studies with the mean and standard deviation of sleep duration and/or the proportion of short and long sleep durations in Chinese older adults were extracted and pooled using random-effects models. Subgroup analyses were conducted according to gender, region, area, survey time and sample size. A total of 36 studies with 150,616 subjects were included for analyses. The pooled mean sleep duration of 21 studies with available data was 6.82 hours/day (95% CI: 6.59–7.05 hours/day). The estimated proportions of sleep duration \u3c5 hours/day, \u3c6 hours/day, \u3c7 hours/day were 18.8% (95% CI: 1.7%–35.9%), 26.7% (95% CI: 19.7%–33.7%) and 42.3% (95% CI: 34.8%–49.8%), respectively. The pooled proportions for long sleepers were 22.6% (95% CI: 13.9%–31.4%) (\u3e8 hours/day) and 17.6% (95% CI: 12.4%–22.9%) (\u3e9 hours/day). Given the adverse effects of unhealthy sleep patterns, health professionals should pay more attention to sleep patterns in this population in China

Evaluating distribution of foveal avascular zone parameters corrected by lateral magnification and their associations with retinal thickness

Purpose To examine the distribution of foveal avascular zone (FAZ) parameters, with and without correction for lateral magnification, in a large cohort of healthy young adults. Design Cross-sectional, observational cohort study. Participants A total of 504 healthy adults, 27 to 30 years of age. Methods Participants underwent a comprehensive ophthalmic examination including axial length measurement and OCT angiography (OCTA) imaging of the macula. OCT angiography images of combined superficial and deep retinal vessel plexuses were processed via a custom software to extract foveal avascular zone area (FAZA) and foveal density-300 (FD-300), the vessel density in a 300-μm wide annulus surrounding the FAZ, with and without correction for lateral magnification. Bland–Altman analyses were performed to examine the effect of lateral magnification on FAZA and FD-300, as well as to evaluate the interocular agreement in both parameters. Linear mixed-effects models were used to examine the relationship between retinal thicknesses and OCTA parameters. Main Outcome Measures The FAZA and FD-300, corrected for lateral magnification. Results The mean (standard deviation [SD]) of laterally corrected FAZA and FD-300 was 0.22 mm2 (0.10 mm2) and 51.9% (3.2%), respectively. Relative to uncorrected data, 55.6% of corrected FAZA showed a relative change > 5%, whereas all FD-300 changes were within 5%. There was good interocular symmetry (mean right eye–left eye difference, 95% limits of agreement [LoA]) in both FAZA (0.006 mm2, -0.05 mm2, to 0.07 mm2) and FD-300 (-0.05%, -5.39%, to 5.30%). There were significant negative associations between central retinal thickness and FAZA (β = -0.0029), as well as between central retinal thickness and FD-300 (β = -0.044), with the relationships driven by inner, not outer, retina. Conclusions We reported lateral magnification adjusted normative values for FAZA and FD-300 in a large cohort of young, healthy eyes. Clinicians should strongly consider accounting for lateral magnification when evaluating FAZA. Good interocular agreement in FAZA and FD-300 suggests the contralateral eye can be used as control data

Duration of untreated bipolar disorder: A multicenter study

Little is known about the demographic and clinical differences between short and long duration of untreated bipolar disorder (DUB) in Chinese patients. This study examined the demographic and clinical features of short (≤2 years) and long DUB (\u3e2 years) in China. A consecutively recruited sample of 555 patients with bipolar disorder (BD) was examined in 7 psychiatric hospitals and general hospital psychiatric units across China. Patients’ demographic and clinical characteristics were collected using a standardized protocol and data collection procedure. The mean DUB was 3.2 ± 6.0 years; long DUB accounted for 31.0% of the sample. Multivariate analyses revealed that longer duration of illness, diagnosis of BD type II, and earlier misdiagnosis of BD for major depressive disorder or schizophrenia were independently associated with long DUB. The mean DUB in Chinese BD patients was shorter than the reported figures from Western countries. The long-term impact of DUB on the outcome of BD is warranted

A controlled sintering process for more permeable ceramic hollow fibre membranes

In this study, a new controlled sintering process has been proposed to improve the water permeation of asymmetric alumina hollow fibre membranes. In this process, polymer binder (PESf) in precursor fibres is purposely pre-treated in static air at selected temperatures (400-600. °C) to have it partially removed, prior to be converted into carbon in a second sintering step (1450. °C) under an oxygen free environment. During the second sintering step, proper bounding between ceramic particles takes place, while the growth of ceramic grains is effectively suppressed due to the presence of carbon. The carbon in the voids formed by particle packing also acts as a pore structure "stabilizer" and can be removed easily via subsequent thermal treatment in static air at 800. °C. Compared to the membranes with the same asymmetric structure and sintered in static air only (i.e. normal sintering), the membranes sintered using the new controlled sintering process shows water permeation flux is approximately 13 times higher, together with comparable mechanical strength. Moreover, this original concept of using the polymer binder to design the pore structure of ceramic membranes can be transferred to other inorganic materials