This paper presents the initial outcomes of a key scoping study undertaken to explore the role of augmented reality and motion detecting technologies in the context of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) for museums related environments. Initial prototypes are in the form of an interactive infrared camera based application for children to engage with an Aboriginal puppet. This scoping study is u...

Quality has become one of the core factors for almost all manufacturing and service companies that aim to achieve customer satisfaction. Therefore, improving quality is considered to be one of the efforts that companies consider a must to attain customer loyalty in today’s complex global competitive environment. Studies concluded that any serious endeavour to improve quality will lead to an inc...

Adam Graycar Director Since the mid-1980s economic evaluation has become an essential appraisal tool of health and related social services. In this context, the Criminology Research Council funded a study that investigated the economic costs and benefits of implementing in-prison sex-offender treatment programs (SOTP) for male child sex offenders. Cost–benefit analysis is always based on many a...

Statistically constrained economic design for profiles usually refers to the selection of some parameters such as the sample size, sampling interval, smoothing constant, and control limit for minimizing the total implementation cost while the designed profiles demonstrate a proper statistical performance. In this paper, the Lorenzen-Vance function is first used to model the implementation...

in this paper i would like to build on a report i’ve achieved in 2009 for the French ministry of Culture concerning the impacts of the intangible cultural heritage nominations on tourism (Fournier 2009). the case study i’ll specially focus on will be the “processional giants and dragons in belgium and France” which were first introduced as a “masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of h...

OBJECTIVES To estimate indirect costs through human capital approach and intangible costs through willingness-to-pay (WTP), and identify factors potentially affecting these costs in multiethnic Asian patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS Data were collected through face-to-face interviews among knee OA patients. Human capital approach was used to estimate indirect costs by multiplyi...