The main purpose of this study is to examine the variables influencing golf spectators’ desire to stay at a professional golf tournament in Japan. The data used in this project were based on a questionnaire administered to 1023 spectators at two professional golf tour tournaments near Tokyo; 991 of these questionnaires were returned. The results indicated that the variables that most affected t...

and Exhibition was held as part of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Orlando, Florida, 18 to 22 July. The goals of these robot events are to foster the sharing of research and technology, allow research groups to showcase their achievements, encourage students to enter robotics and AI fields at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and increase awareness of th...

In this paper, we proposed a classification method of spectators’ state in video sequences by voting of facial expressions and face directions. The task of this paper is to classify the state of the spectators in a given video sequence into “Positive Scene” or “Negative Scene”, and “Watching Seriously” or “Not Watching Seriously”. The proposed classifier is designed by a “bag-of-visual-words” a...

We present observations from two separate studies of spectators’ perceptions of musical performances, one involving two acoustic instruments, the other two electronic instruments. Both studies followed the same qualitative method, using structured interviews to ascertain and compare spectators’ experiences. In this paper, we focus on outcomes pertaining to perceptions of the performers’ skill, ...

Narrative intelligence is fundamental for organizing experiences, understanding our surroundings, and forming predictions about the future [Schank, 1995]. Computational systems that leverage narrative intelligence benefit applications that involve stories including entertainment, education, skill training, and legal decision-making. AI planning research is a popular source of data structures an...

the purpose of this paper is to identify and explain the factors affecting female’s psychological empowerment in the information and knowledge services. this paper is based on applied research and mixed method including descriptive and survey. first by using qualitative approach, for expanding and explaining effective factors of pycholigical empowerment of women librarians and informationist, n...

the epic theatre of brecht invites spectators to analyze dominant issues concerning economic, social, and political matters, additionally guiding them to consider possible alterations. in his plays, brecht strives to prohibit the metamorphosis of spectators by creating a gap between characters and spectators thereby encouraging them to develop critical ideas about society. readers therefore sho...

Carbon nanostructures are famous structures which are used in several industries such as separation, treatment, energy storage (i.e. methane and hydrogen storage), etc. A successful modeling of activated carbon preparation is very important in saving time and money. There are some attempts to achieve the appropriate theoretical modeling of activated carbon preparation but most of them were almo...

Alcohol use and alcohol-related problems, including accidents, vandalism and violence, at sporting events are of increased concern in Sweden and other countries. The relationship between alcohol use and violence has been established and can be explained by the level of intoxication. Given the occurrence of alcohol use and alcohol-related problems at sporting events, research has assessed intoxi...