In 2009, the Savannah Sports Council hosted its 11 annual Savannah Hockey Classic. In order to assist the future marketing of this event, a study was undertaken to assist the Savannah Sports Council in 3 major ways: (1) To obtain a consumer profile of spectators, (2) to explore the economic impact of the event on the city of Savannah, and (3) to discover the perceived personality of the event (...

We define Interactive Digital Artworks as Information Technology intensive systems for which spectators are involved in the production of the artistic output. We propose a novel framework for classification of interactive digital artworks built on the critical revision and refinement of previous work. Our approach is based on the input-process-output view of Information Systems. The classificat...

As action in computer games is becoming more and more complex, the possibilities for entertaining players and spectators is increasing. This paper introduces methods for the automatic extraction and evaluation of action scenes in computer games. Selection strategies are also presented that allow for the automatic generation of summaries after the game (to be shown as a sequence of images), or t...

Movie directors and designers of displays for process control have one thing in common: they must display the inner state of a complex system in an understandable way to a group of spectators/operators that do not have direct access to the interior of the system. The paper redefines the three basic filmic units, cut, scene and sequence, and presents five topics from film theory that may give in...

Introduction The 9th IOIG took place in Reunion Island from July 31 to August 9, 2015. This sport event gathered approximatively 1 640 athletes, 2 000 volunteers and several thousand spectators from seven islands: Comoros, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Mayotte, Seychelles and Reunion. In response to the import risk of infectious diseases from these countries where some of them are endemics, ...

Competition and Conference (RoboCup-2002) Fukuoka/Busan, which took place from 19 to 25 June in Fukuoka, Japan. It was the largest RoboCup since 1997 and held the first humanoid league competition in the world. Further, the first ROBOTREX (robot trade and exhibitions) was held with about 50 companies, universities, and institutes represented. A total of 117,000 spectators witnessed this marvelo...

The purpose of present study was investigation of the effect of attentional focus of novice players’ self-statements in basketball free throw practice on their state anxiety in transfer test with spectators’ presence. Therefore, 38 novice females (mean of the age=22 yrs.) who had intermediate trait anxiety were selected randomly by sports competitive anxiety test (SCAT). The participants were a...

The purpose of this research is to predict the individualchr('39')s attitude through their beliefs about advertising by using sports. This research is practical and is of the correlation method which was carried out as a field study. The statistical population was the spectators present at Azadi Stadium and according to the content of Cochran sample, 342 of the spectators were randomly chosen a...

It is vital to study spectator responses environmental campaigns advance sustainability initiatives. Therefore, this investigation aimed identify which factors influence sustainable transport intentions and perform a segmentation based on their responses. Data were collected from 355 spectators at an international surfing event hosted in renowned destination. The data analysed two stages. First...