appRaiseVR – An Evaluation Framework for Immersive Experiences

i-com ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-121
Author(s):  
Carolin Wienrich ◽  
Johanna Gramlich
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Procedures ◽  
Diverse Application ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Level ◽  
Similar Evaluation

AbstractObjective. VR is evolving into everyday technology. For all diverse application areas, it is essential to understand the user’s condition to ensure a safe, pleasant, and meaningful VR experience. However, VR experience evaluation is still in its infancy. The present paper takes up this research desideratum by conflating diverse expertise and learnings about experience evaluation in general and VR experiences in particular into a systematic evaluation framework (appRaiseVR).Method. To capture diverse expertise, we conducted two focus groups (bottom-up approach) with experts working in different fields of experience evaluation (e. g., Movie Experience, Theatre Experiences). First, we clustered the results of both focus groups. Then, we conflated those results and the learnings about experience evaluation stemming from the field of user experience into the final framework (top-down approach).Results. The framework includes five steps providing high-level guidance through the VR evaluation process. The first three steps support the definition of the experience and evaluation conditions (setting, level, plausibility). The last two steps guide the selection to find an appropriate time course and tools of measure.Conclusion. appRaiseVR offers high-level guidance for evaluators with different expertise and contexts. Finally, establishing similar evaluation procedures might contribute to safe, pleasant, and meaningful VR experiences.

scholarly journals Foresight evaluation: lessons from project management

foresight ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina A. Makarova ◽  
Anna Sokolova
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Project Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Evaluation Procedures

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to identify ways for improvement of the foresight evaluation framework on the basis of analysis and systematisation of accumulated experience in the field of project management. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a detailed literature review devoted to an evaluation of foresight and traditional projects. The approaches to project evaluation in the field of project management were investigated, and the main steps of traditional project evaluation process were determined. The most commonly applied steps of foresight evaluation were identified by the analysis of recent foresight evaluation projects. The comparison of evaluation frameworks for foresight projects and traditional projects allows to provide recommendations for foresight evaluation framework improvement. Findings – The paper identifies several lessons for foresight evaluation from project management. The elements which can enrich foresight evaluation framework are the following: the development of an evaluation model; the extensive use of quantitative methods; the elaboration of evaluation scales; the inclusion of economic indicators into evaluation; and the provision of more openness and transparency for evaluation results. Originality/value – Given the importance of foresight evaluation procedures and the lack of a commonly applied methodological approach, the value of this paper consists in identifying a foresight evaluation framework and enriching it with elements of project management.

What, and who, is social tourism? The roles of the public, private and voluntary sector in social tourism provision in Flanders, Belgium.

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-168
Author(s):  
Lynn Minnaert
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Private Enterprises ◽  
Large Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Level

Abstract In many social tourism systems, private-sector partners play a large role in social tourism provision. This begs the question: how exactly does one classify social tourism initiatives? Which conditions do providers need to meet to be classed as 'social tourism', and can profit-seeking private enterprises also be classed under this label if these conditions are met? This chapter explores these questions by examining the case study of Flanders. A conclusion of focus groups conducted in Flanders was that a definition of social tourism based on the nature of the provider is not helpful: in practice, actors in the public, private and voluntary sectors are social tourism providers. A high level of consensus was reached for the statement: 'social tourism is something you do, not something you are'.

What, and who, is social tourism? The roles of the public, private and voluntary sector in social tourism provision in Flanders, Belgium.

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-168
Author(s):  
Lynn Minnaert
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Private Enterprises ◽  
Large Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Level

Abstract In many social tourism systems, private-sector partners play a large role in social tourism provision. This begs the question: how exactly does one classify social tourism initiatives? Which conditions do providers need to meet to be classed as 'social tourism', and can profit-seeking private enterprises also be classed under this label if these conditions are met? This chapter explores these questions by examining the case study of Flanders. A conclusion of focus groups conducted in Flanders was that a definition of social tourism based on the nature of the provider is not helpful: in practice, actors in the public, private and voluntary sectors are social tourism providers. A high level of consensus was reached for the statement: 'social tourism is something you do, not something you are'.

scholarly journals The Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Consortium: A Blueprint for Inclusive Excellence

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 6848
Author(s):  
Elizabeth O. Ofili ◽  
Daniel Sarpong ◽  
Richard Yanagihara ◽  
Paul B. Tchounwou ◽  
Emma Fernández-Repollet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Realist Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
Common Data Elements ◽  
Track Record ◽  
Inclusive Excellence ◽  
Data Elements ◽  
Minority Institutions

The Research Centers in Minority Institutions, (RCMI) Program was established by Congress to address the health research and training needs of minority populations, by preparing future generations of scientists at these institutions, with a track record of producing minority scholars in medicine, science, and technology. The RCMI Consortium consists of the RCMI Specialized Centers and a Coordinating Center (CC). The RCMI-CC leverages the scientific expertise, technologies, and innovations of RCMI Centers to accelerate the delivery of solutions to address health disparities in communities that are most impacted. There is increasing recognition that the gap in representation of racial/ethnic groups and women is perpetuated by institutional cultures lacking inclusion and equity. The objective of this work is to provide a framework for inclusive excellence by developing a systematic evaluation process with common data elements that can track the inter-linked goals of workforce diversity and health equity. At its core, the RCMI Program embodies the trinity of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We propose a realist evaluation framework and a logic model that integrates the institutional context to develop common data metrics for inclusive excellence. The RCMI-CC will collaborate with NIH-funded institutions and research consortia to disseminate and scale this model.

scholarly journals CURRENT SITUATION OF MEDICINE III AND CHALLENGES

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Lydia Masako Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
The South ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
East Region ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Level

Objective: Describe the current situation of the area Medicine III of CAPES and detect challenges for the next four years of evaluation. Methods: The area's documents and reports of meetings were read from 2004 to 2013 Medicine III Capes as well as reports and evaluation form of each Postgraduate Program (PPG) of the area and the sub-page of the area from the Capes website. The data relating to the evaluation process, the assessment form and faculty, student and scientific production data of all of Post-Graduate Programs of Medicine III were computed and analyzed. From these data were detected the challenges of the area for the next four years (2013-2016). Results: Among the 3,806 PPG, Medicine III had 41 PPG during last triennial evaluation and progressed from 18% to 43% of PPG very good or more concept (triennium 2001-2003 and 2010-2012). Most PPG were located in the South-East region (32), three in the South and two in the North-East. There was no PPG in North or Central-West regions. In 2013 and 2014 there were four approved Professional Master Degree Programs and one Master (M) and Doctorate (PhD). The average of permanent professors was 558 teachers with about three students/professor. The number of PhD graduates has increased as well as the reason PhD/MD. The proportion of in high impact periodicals (A1, A2, B1 and B2) jumped from 30% to 50% demonstrating positive community response to the policy area. The challenges identified were: decrease regional asymmetry, increase the number of masters and doctors of excellence, reassessment of Brazilian journals, stimulate and set internationalization indicators, including post-doctors and definition of its indicators, the PPG nucleation analysis, PPG 3x3, include primary and secondary education, professional master and indicators of technological scientific production and solidarity. Conclusion: Medicine III has been scientifically consolidated and their scientific researchers demonstrated maturity reaching a high level and matched to areas of greatest tradition and history. For the maintenance and advancement of the area some challenges and goals were established to be developed in the period from 2013 to 2016.

Teaching Psychiatry to Medical Students: A Lesson for the Teacher

1971 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan M. Lazerson
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Evaluation Procedures ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Delayed Recognition ◽  
Teaching Psychiatry ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
To Receive

As in the clinical practice of medicine, crises are common events in the lives of those who teach. When these are viewed as episodes in the development and continuation of a teaching-learning situation, they serve to focus attention on the entire learning process. The refusal by a section of second year medical students to sign their psychiatry quiz papers is taken as such an event and is scrutinized to help define the task of a teacher of psychiatry in an era of confrontation. With a conceptual focus on the dyad of teacher and student, and a consideration of the collaborative definition of goals, content, methods and evaluation procedures, the author describes his delayed recognition of the full impact of the milieu on the students. Their perception of the evaluation process and the necessity to involve them in it is described. Such elements as work overload, a minimization of the relative importance of psychiatric learning, an understandable fear and mistrust of authority are considered, as are the students' wishes to be good physicians and to receive feedback. A solution to this problem which resolved the crisis and prevented its recurrence is outlined. Such post facto learning by the teacher fosters the activity of the intuitive and cognitive processes in him, and permits him to form new perceptions of the teaching process.

scholarly journals Systematic evaluation of Business Process Management Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Calegari ◽  
Andrea Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Definition Of

Selecting a Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) for an organization requires a thorough evaluation of its capabilities considering the whole support of the business process lifecycle and the organizational environment in which the BPMS will be used. In a previous work, we have proposed a methodology for the systematic evaluation of BPMS, ensuring the quality of the results and the repeatability of the evaluation process. The methodology envisions a quantitative and qualitative evaluation regarding the fulfillment of key features that BPMS must provide in the context of a given organization. However, it was mostly focused on required functional and non-technical aspects. In this paper, we present the extension of our methodology with a detailed definition of non-functional aspects to be evaluated, a set of test cases for their evaluation, and the development of a case study as a complimentary qualitative evaluation. We also performed a fine tuning of the methodology based on a comprehensive comparison with other existent methodologies and the provision of tool support. To illustrate the approach, we present results from the evaluation of open source and proprietary BPMS which constitute both a validation and assessment of our proposal and a contribution to knowledge regarding the capacities of selected BPMS technologies.

scholarly journals Business rescue decision-making: Post-mortem evaluation of an ‘orgy’

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Pretorius
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Viability Analysis ◽  
Master Level ◽  
High Level

Background: Sensemaking of the extreme vagaries and external considerations that influence decision-making and judgement during business rescue events (BREs) are currently sparse but details about evaluation criteria are desperately needed.Aim: Learning from and applying post-mortem analysis (PMA) is investigated to propose an evaluation framework. Setting: Following the problems by and expectations of the Regulator to ‘govern’ the business rescue (BR) industry, a recent decision to decentralise the accreditation of business rescue practitioners (BRPs) changed the landscape significantly. Methods: From literature and interviews, the study identified seven interactive evaluation criteria from PMA thinking to be included in a conceptual framework. Results: Following the determination of the contextual difficulty evaluation, the measurement criteria included: taking management control, initial feasibility judgement, viability analysis, decision-making, BRP competencies, the rescue plan and compliance within the supreme task. One mediating factor, namely the BRP dominated. Secondly, the evaluation process can be costly to ensure validity of the data, collection and evaluators. Finally, BRE evaluators (executors/decision makers) require a high level understanding of contextual issues that may disproportionately influence an evaluation. Expert and master level competencies are required to inform the proper judgement of the evaluation criteria and variables. Conclusion: The study addresses educators’ need for a framework for PMA to guide the teaching of BRP competencies, direct the regulatory authorities (and professional bodies) accreditation framework for licensing BRPs, inform banks as creditors to enhance their information systems, advise upcoming BRPs on outcomes while courts may consider the framework as useful for judging issues.

Determining the discount rate when evaluating trade organizations: Some features

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
E.A. Grigor'eva ◽  
A.S. Buzhikeeva
Keyword(s):  
Discount Rate ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Additional Risk ◽  
Evaluation Procedures ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Subject. This article deals with the issues of determining the market value of the trading business, taking into account a number of characteristics. Objectives. The article aims to develop certain provisions of the methodology and practice of evaluating the business of trading organizations, namely, taking into account the additional risk of inventory feasibility when calculating the discount rate. Methods. For the study, we used a systems approach, and the cognition, and economic and analytical research methods. Results. The article presents a three-tiered classification of stocks and a definition of risk based on the criteria for dividing stocks by purpose, degree of implementation, and shelf life in accordance with the scale. Based on the classification, the article offers certain recommendations for determining the discount rate when evaluating trading organizations, aimed at taking into account additional risk. Conclusions. Various evaluation procedures within the framework of traditional approaches and methods in relation to trading organizations do not take into account risk specific to this type of economic activity. The proposed methodology for calculating the discount rate for trade organizations takes into account the features of their functioning.

A Strategy for Design of Marine Pollution Monitoring Studies

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 15-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Segar ◽  
E. Stamman
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Monitoring Program ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Management Context ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Scientific Testing

Most historical marine pollution monitoring has proven useless in a management context. A strategy for development of effective marine pollution monitoring programs is outlined. This strategy is based on the following steps: 1) systematic evaluation of the management information needs, 2) identification of the hypothetical impacts associated with those management concerns, and 3) investigation of the feasibility of monitoring those effects such that the existence, or absence, of a specified level of effects can be established in a statistically-valid manner. There are two fundamentally different types of monitoring program: site-specific and regional. These two types of program differ markedly in scope and approach when designed through application of this strategy. The strategy requires development of null hypotheses which address management concerns and which are amenable to scientific testing. In order for the program to be successful, the null hypotheses selected for inclusion in a marine pollution monitoring program must address levels of effect which are predefined to be environmentally significant. The definition of environmentally significant effect levels is a difficult process which must be primarily the responsibility of the managerial community.

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