Wan-Chen Lee, Li-Min Cassandra Huang and Juliana Hirt
This study aims to understand fiction readers’ perspectives on the strengths and concerns of incorporating emojis into information systems for fiction. To solicit readers’…
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Purpose
This study aims to understand fiction readers’ perspectives on the strengths and concerns of incorporating emojis into information systems for fiction. To solicit readers’ feedback, the authors adopted Cho et al.’s (2023) model of three families of fiction mood categories as the theoretical framework. Based on this framework, prototypes of interface designs that implemented textual mood descriptors and/or emojis were developed.
Design/methodology/approach
Eighteen adult fiction readers at a US public university were recruited for online interviews. The participants shared their insights into the prototypes and their fiction search and review experiences.
Findings
Most participants preferred designs that support both mood terms and emojis. The findings highlighted the potential of emojis to improve metadata inclusivity and serve diverse users’ needs. Technical challenges and accessibility issues for blind or visually impaired users were noted as limitations of emoji implementation.
Originality/value
Based on established theoretical frameworks and emoji mappings for mood categories, this study advances the progress of implementing emojis into information systems for fiction. The findings will inform user-centered interface designs that support the description, search and review of fiction.
Hyerim Cho, Wan-Chen Lee, Heather Thach and Juliana Hirt
The aboutness (a subject matter of resource) of information has been strongly emphasized when organizing and searching for different types of media resources. For video games…
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Purpose
The aboutness (a subject matter of resource) of information has been strongly emphasized when organizing and searching for different types of media resources. For video games, mood is one of the critical subjective elements that supports users in finding games of interest. The current study examines a previously developed video game mood controlled vocabulary (CV) to empirically test its applicability and evaluate the individual terms’ separability and distinctiveness.
Design/methodology/approach
The research team collected user reviews from Steam, an online game database. Three different games were selected for triangulation to represent each of the 17 moods identified in the existing CV, resulting in the selection of 51 games. Collected reviews were tokenized and investigated from individual, terminological and categorical levels of text analyses.
Findings
Through the application of multiple analysis techniques (frequency, cluster and network), findings confirm the intuitiveness and usefulness of the existing CV. Additionally, opportunities for increased category separability and distinctness are identified for three moods: Aggressive, Quirky and Intense.
Originality/value
The current study adopts a user-centered perspective to evaluate the existing metadata framework created based on literature analysis. This study aims to complement the literature-based framework with users’ perspectives to enhance the metadata for interactive multimedia resources, such as video games.
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Wan-Chen Lee, Li-Min Cassandra Huang and Juliana Hirt
This study aims to explore the application of emojis to mood descriptions of fiction. The three goals are investigating whether Cho et al.'s model (2023) is a sound conceptual…
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Purpose
This study aims to explore the application of emojis to mood descriptions of fiction. The three goals are investigating whether Cho et al.'s model (2023) is a sound conceptual framework for implementing emojis and mood categories in information systems, mapping 30 mood categories to 115 face emojis and exploring and visualizing the relationships between mood categories based on emojis mapping.
Design/methodology/approach
An online survey was distributed to a US public university to recruit adult fiction readers. In total, 64 participants completed the survey.
Findings
The results show that the participants distinguished between the three families of fiction mood categories. The three families model is a promising option to improve mood descriptions for fiction. Through mapping emojis to 30 mood categories, the authors identified the most popular emojis for each category, analyzed the relationships between mood categories and examined participants' consensus on mapping.
Originality/value
This study focuses on applying emojis to fiction reading. Emojis were mapped to mood categories by fiction readers. Emoji mapping contributes to the understanding of the relationships between mood categories. Emojis, as graphic mood descriptors, have the potential to complement textual descriptors and enrich mood metadata for fiction.
Hyerim Cho, Wan-Chen Lee, Li-Min Huang and Joseph Kohlburn
Readers articulate mood in deeply subjective ways, yet the underlying structure of users' understanding of the media they consume has important implications for retrieval and…
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Purpose
Readers articulate mood in deeply subjective ways, yet the underlying structure of users' understanding of the media they consume has important implications for retrieval and access. User articulations might at first seem too idiosyncratic, but organizing them meaningfully has considerable potential to provide a better searching experience for all involved. The current study develops mood categories inductively for fiction organization and retrieval in information systems.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors developed and distributed an open-ended survey to 76 fiction readers to understand their preferences with regard to the affective elements in fiction. From the fiction reader responses, the research team identified 161 mood terms and used them for further categorization.
Findings
The inductive approach resulted in 30 categories, including angry, cozy, dark and nostalgic. Results include three overlapping mood families: Emotion, Tone/Narrative, and Atmosphere/Setting, which in turn relate to structures that connect reader-generated data with conceptual frameworks in previous studies.
Originality/value
The inherent complexity of “mood” should not dissuade researchers from carefully investigating users' preferences in this regard. Adding to the existing efforts of classifying moods conducted by experts, the current study presents mood terms provided by actual end-users when describing different moods in fiction. This study offers a useful roadmap for creating taxonomies for retrieval and description, as well as structures derived from user-provided terms that ultimately have the potential to improve user experience.
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Gerald R. Ferris, Rachel E. Kane, James K. Summers and Timothy P. Munyon
This chapter examines the role of political skill in relation to employee psychological and physiological health and well-being. First, we begin by providing a review of the…
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This chapter examines the role of political skill in relation to employee psychological and physiological health and well-being. First, we begin by providing a review of the current research on the relationship of political skill to stress and strain; additionally, areas in this literature that are in need of greater theoretical specification are identified. A multi-mediation organizing framework is proposed, which suggests that political skill impacts intrapsychic (i.e., constructs residing within an individual such as control, self-esteem) and interpersonal processes (i.e., authenticity, trustworthiness, affability, and humility), which subsequently influence the development and maintenance of work relationships, networks, and coalitions, and ultimately affects individual psychological and physiological health and well-being. The implications of this framework, and directions for future research, are discussed.
Maria Helena Pestana, Wan-Chen Wang and Artur Parreira
This study aims to identify intellectual structures, emerging trends and future research opportunities via a bibliometric analysis of senior tourism research from 1998 until 2017.
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Purpose
This study aims to identify intellectual structures, emerging trends and future research opportunities via a bibliometric analysis of senior tourism research from 1998 until 2017.
Design/methodology/approach
A detailed search of 700 core articles and 7,221 citations collated from Web-of-Science and Scopus was implemented and analyzed through CiteSpace.
Findings
The results reveal a slow increase in the amount of research, with six main areas of research. The most cited articles are mainly older. The USA has a solid leadership in publications, followed by Australia and China. The network of journals and institutions show a core peripheral structure where Tourism Management and University of Queensland are ranked first. The identification of structural holes, critical articles and the development of new emerging tendencies highlights the priorities in the senior tourism domain, pointing to new opportunities for research.
Originality/value
The originality of this paper consists in a temporal and dynamic analysis of the past two decades, using CiteSpace for a co-citation and co-occurrence network analysis.
老年人旅游 -科学计量学回顾 (1998-2017)
目的
此篇论文的目的是做书目计量学分析来反应老年人旅游研究从1998到 2017, 识别他们的知识架构,新兴趋势和未来研究机会.
设计/方法/途径
从Web-of-Science 和Scopus中详细搜索700 篇核心文章以及7,221 份引用并透过CiteSpace 分析
发现
结果揭示这方面的研究有缓慢成长的趋势, 包含六个主要研究领域. 几篇最常被引用的文章大部分是历史较悠久的. 在主要出版国家上以美国出版的文章最多, 其次是澳洲和中国。期刊和发行机构的网络显现出一个主要的外围架构-Tourism Management 和昆士兰大学各为排行第一. 鉴定架构, 重要文章, 趋势发展点出老年人旅游领域的未来研究机会.
独创性
此篇论文的独创性包含过去二十年的当时性及动态性分析,运用 CiteSpace 来做文献共被引 及共现网络分析.
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老年人旅游, 书目计量学, CiteSpace, Web-of science, Scopus, 文献共被引网络
Turismo Para personas mayores: una revisión cienciométrica (1998-2017)
Propósito
El propósito de este documento es hacer un análisis bibliométrico que refleje la investigación turística de alto nivel desde 1998 hasta 2017, identificando su estructura intelectual, tendencias emergentes y futuras oportunidades de investigación.
Design/Método/Enfoque
se implementó y analizó a través de CiteSpace una búsqueda detallada de 700 artículos básicos y 7.221 citas recopiladas de Web-of-Science y Scopus.
Resultados
Los resultados revelan un crecimiento lento de la investigación, con seis áreas principales de investigación. Los artículos más citados son principalmente antiguos. Estados Unidos tiene un sólido liderazgo en publicaciones, seguido de Australia y China. La red de revistas y instituciones muestra una estructura central donde la Gestión del Turismo y la Universidad de Queensland ocupan el primer lugar. La identificación de agujeros estructurales, artículos críticos y el desarrollo de nuevas tendencias emergentes resaltan las prioridades en el dominio turístico de alto nivel, señalando nuevas oportunidades para la investigación.
Originalidad
la originalidad de este articulo consiste en un análisis temporal y dinámico de las últimas dos décadas, utilizando CiteSpace para un análisis de redes de co-citaciones y co-ocurrencia.
Palabras clave
Turistas mayors, Bibliometría, CiteSpace, Web-of science, Scopus red de co-citaciones, Red de ocurrencia conjunta, Análisis de palabras clave, Patrones, Estructura intellectual, Tendencias emergentes
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Meige Song, Longwei Wang, Li Wang and Wan Chen
Drawing on a sensemaking perspective, this study aims to theoretically and empirically investigate the effects of participative corporate political activity (PCPA) on radical…
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Purpose
Drawing on a sensemaking perspective, this study aims to theoretically and empirically investigate the effects of participative corporate political activity (PCPA) on radical innovation and how regulatory uncertainty and technological uncertainty affect firms’ choice of PCPA as well as its effectiveness on radical innovation.
Design/methodology/approach
Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to test the research model based on survey data collected from 227 Chinese manufacturing firms.
Findings
The results indicate that PCPA has a significantly positive effect on radical innovation. Both regulatory and technological uncertainty are positively related to PCPA. In addition, regulatory uncertainty strengthens the positive relationship between PCPA and radical innovation, whereas technological uncertainty weakens this relationship.
Practical implications
This study reveals that firm managers should be mindful that PCPA is beneficial to firms’ radical innovation activities in China. Additionally, although regulatory uncertainty and technological uncertainty can drive firms to engage in PCPA to cope with the ambiguity they experienced, managers should also be alert to the complicated role of environment forces in enlarging or discounting the positive effect of PCPA on radical innovation.
Originality/value
The findings offer fresh insights into the use of PCPA to manage the uncertain external environment when pursuing radical innovation activities in China.
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Wan Chen and Longwei Wang
This paper aims to investigate how firm-level factor entrepreneurial orientation affects alliance outcomes, and how two sources of uncertainty – competitive intensity and the…
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Purpose
This paper aims to investigate how firm-level factor entrepreneurial orientation affects alliance outcomes, and how two sources of uncertainty – competitive intensity and the dependence of an entrepreneurially oriented firm on its partner – moderate the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and alliance performance.
Design/methodology/approach
The hypotheses are tested using survey data from 196 R&D alliances in China.
Findings
The results indicate that the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and alliance performance has an inverted U shape and is negatively moderated by competitive intensity and the entrepreneurial orientation firm’s dependence on its partner.
Practical implications
Entrepreneurial orientation can have positive and negative effects on alliance performance. Particularly in contexts of intense competition or dependence on partners, firms with an entrepreneurial orientation must fully exploit the advantage this brings them, improve their self-control and alliance-coordination capabilities and emphasize the joint effects of technological innovation and market factors on new product development in case of alliance failure.
Originality/value
This study highlights the dual role of entrepreneurial orientation in R&D alliances. By incorporating external and internal sources of uncertainty (competitive intensity and dependence on the partner), it also offers a more comprehensive understanding of how different levels of entrepreneurial orientation affect R&D alliance performance.