Tourism plays an important role in the development of aboriginal towns in Taiwan, and the goal of this study is to explore the impact of tourism on the residents of Wulai, Taipei County, an aboriginal town which for a long time has tourism as its main activity, and the meaning of the changes in their living environment and clashes caused by tourism development on their cultural landscapes. The ...

Recently, taking photographs by using camera function of a smartphone for many purpose as well as a digital camera only for photo shooting becomes common. Metadata of digital photographs are add to the photographs at the shooting behavior. There are various kinds of services using these metadata. The existing photographs shot by a digital camera and smartphone’s camera function include many met...

There is little knowledge available on the spatial behaviour of urban tourists, and yet tourists generate an enormous quantity of data (Big Data) when they visit cities. These data sources can be used to track their presence through their activities. The aim of this paper is to analyse the digital footprint of urban tourists through Big Data. Unlike other papers that use a single data source, t...

Recent trend on the web is to share their traveling experience via uploading photos to web albums. Shared photos of sightseeing spots are important resources for those who are going to visit there. As sightseeing spot scenes vary with different situations, such as weather and season, automatic classification of photos into different situations is expected to be beneficial for tourists to plan w...

We demonstrate an information navigation system for sightseeing domains that has a dialogue interface for discovering user interests for tourist activities. The system discovers interests of a user with focus detection on user utterances, and proactively presents related information to the discovered user interest. A partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP)-based dialogue manager, w...

A DC-DC converter is designed according to the request of the electric propulsion system for a fuel cell sightseeing car. The converter adopts a simple topography full bridge circuit. The main switch transistors are driven by the module TL494, based on pulse-width modulation method. A high accuracy linear optical coupler is used to isolate analogy signal in order to guarantee the stabilization ...

While commercial images of “backpacking” emphasise adventure, youth and sightseeing, recent ethnographies of backpackers identify other motivations and rationales that accentuate travel experiences as formative of the self and identity. This raises the question of the basis of this apparently common orientation. This paper investigates, through analysis of postings on an electronic backpacker n...

the 8th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA’13). The symposium was organized by the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) at the University of Compiègne (France) in July 2013 (http://www.sipta.org/isipta13). The biennial ISIPTA meetings are well established among international conferences on generalized methods for u...