The professional sports events industry is becoming immensely popular due to a global social shift toward larger numbers of spectators at and an ever-increasing variety such events. This study aimed investigate the impact spectators’ perception corporate responsibility on regional attachment by applying identity theory. present introduces two mediators, namely, pride team identification, enligh...

Abstract A consensus seems to be emerging in economics that at least three motives are at work in many strategic decisions: distributive preferences, reciprocal preferences and self-interest. An important obstacle to this research, however, has been moral biases, i.e., the distortions created by self-interest that can obscure social preferences. Among other things, this has led to disagreement ...

This paper describes a system to improve the visual experience of spectators in massively multiplayer online games. The proposed architecture uses distributed agents to detect actions and control the camera using cinematographic techniques for computer graphics.

Aim of abstract The aim of the paper is to analyse the importance of service quality dimensions in predicting basketball spectators satisfaction. Literature review: Research about service quality is increasing in the professional sport context but in Spain is still limited. The preliminary approach analysed the perceived quality of the spectator through the TEAMQUAL scale. This model considers ...

Synchronized movement is a ubiquitous feature of dance and music performance. Much research into the evolutionary origins of these cultural practices has focused on why humans perform rather than watch or listen to dance and music. In this study, we show that movement synchrony among a group of performers predicts the aesthetic appreciation of live dance performances. We developed a choreograph...

Whereas the entrainment of movements and aspirations among audience members has been known as a basis of collective excitement in the theater, the role of the entrainment of cognitive processes among audience members is still unclear. In the current study, temporal patterns of the audience's attention were observed using eyeblink responses. To determine the effect of interactions among audience...