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This paper proposes a new approach for motivating people to participate in achieving a sustainable society. The method is called Micro-Crowdfunding, and encourages people living in urban cities to support and contribute to the sustainability of small common resources, such as public sinks, toilets, shelves, office areas and so on. Micro-Crowdfundin...
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... These are the only anatomical measurements being used in nine of these. Several research, including [27], used vital sign assessment as proof of a transition from sympathetic to parasympathetic processes, equating a shift in immune function with a wider response to stress. in many trials, calming music was found to decrease blood pressure, pulse rate, and respiration rate. No definitive improvement was observed in just four trials. ...
Coronavirus, the current pandemic that takes lives of 1,936,632 until the time of the paper. Scientists over the world exhibited all efforts to fight the virus. Many supplements developed to fight coronavirus by supporting the immune system which is the strongest worrier against it for now. One of the neglected strategies to enhance immunity is music therapy. Music therapy can drive immunity into different conditions. Not only able to boost and suppress immunity but also many physiological and psychological diseases are treated with music therapy. It is more than just entertainment, and research shows that music therapy may be helpful and cost-effective to support standard therapy. This systemic review tries to explore the effect of music therapy and arrives at a conclusion suggesting routine procedures to support the patient with music therapy. However, the idea of using music therapy in improving the immune system must undergo clinical and medical confirmation to be used
... and include formal and informal constraints (rules, regulations, laws, social norms) and their enforcement characteristics, where the constraints are represented in the information offered in digital services [29,31,33]. Occurrences are activities triggered by living things or physical objects. ...
... Daily life is becoming increasingly complex, and our ability to manage significant information is crucial. In modern society, there are many social problems that need to be solved urgently, but it is difficult to convey important ideological messages succinctly [33,34]. ...
An alternative reality experience enhances our daily life by adding a layer to virtualize real spaces. We believe that incorporating virtuality through alternate reality experience offers a new possibility for gamifying and enriching daily user experiences. However, only technological approaches such as virtual reality and augmented reality do not offer an ideal solution to develop desirable user experiences if people do not feel meaningfulness on them, but current existing models and design patterns for designing alternate reality experiences are not well defined yet. Gamified media has recently become popular, especially in Japan. Among Japanese youth, one manifestation of this trend is the expansion of original media contents to create fanfic contents. This process changes passive consumers into active agents with the ability to advance society. However, no appropriate model currently exists for investigating and exploring this phenomenon in contemporary animé, comics, and games-cultural contents whose fictionality penetrates our daily lives. This chapter tries to fill the gaps to discuss how these cultural contents can be exploited for designing alternate reality experiences. We present a model and design patterns to integrate virtuality through the cultural contents into real spaces for designing alternate reality experiences. First, we present the GamiMedia model to analyze cultural contents. Because the model explicitly accommodates transmedia storytelling concepts, it can be used to explain how the fictional stories in the contents are extended into real spaces. Next, we show design patterns for designing alternate reality experiences based on the model. Finally, we introduce a case study to apply the model and design patterns to show the usefulness of them. The presented model and design patterns allow us to integrate cultural contents into alternate reality experiences offered in real spaces. The approach enables us to design alternate reality experiences that are more persuasive and include stronger ideological messages based on existing cultural contents, and offer new possibilities to overcome various social issues towards more flourished society through the persuasiveness and ideologies.
... The phenomenon of entrepreneurship with personality, social and cultural conditions are associated. Economic, cultural, psychological and combination of production factors in the development and entrepreneurship (Sakamoto, Nakajima, Liu, & Alexandrova, 2013). Given that the fields of psychological Entrepreneurial orientation are essential, hence the early 1960s, studies Psychological field of entrepreneurship started and since then has expanded(Langkamp Bolton & Lane, 2012). ...
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... More details about design and evaluation of micro-crowdfunding were reported in[7,8]. ...
This study proposes enhanced micro-crowdfunding, which is a platform for improving subjective well-being and community sustainability. Micro-crowdfunding is a service designed to achieve the former. The study proposes a platform that improves well-being by automatically adding the “Three Good Things in life” exercise to enhance well-being to micro-crowdfunding. This exercise is effective for decreasing depression. Our preliminary experiment revealed some pitfalls in our approach.
... An approach named micro-crowdfunding (MCfund) increases people's awareness of the importance of sustaining society. This approach will help motivate people in urban areas to participate in realizing a sustainable society [65]. In MCfund, micro-tasks are represented as an abstraction named micro-missions. ...
... Money is typically used as a monetary reward, but it can also be used to increase a community's activities, as shown in MCfund. In a local economy, local currency is an effective tool to complement global currency in supporting our economy [65,77]. As shown in many recent online games, the virtual economy is a useful concept for augmenting the traditional economy [42]. ...
This paper presents a design framework called Gameful Digital Rhetoric that offers a set of design frames for designing meaningful digital rhetoric that guides collective human behavior in ubiquitous social digital services, such as crowdsourcing. The framework is extracted from our experiences with building and developing crowdsourcing case studies. From a video game perspective, the paper has categorized our experiences into seven design frames to encourage collective human activity. This approach is different from traditional gamification, as it focuses more on the semiotic aspect of virtuality in the video games, not game mechanics; it helps to enhance the current meaning of the real world for changing human attitude and behavior through various socio-cultural and psychological techniques. Therefore, it is possible to discuss respective design frames for enhancing crowdsourcing by incrementally adding new digital rhetoric. The paper also presents how Gameful Digital Rhetoric allows us to guide collective human behavior in Collectivist Crowdsourcing; the design is explained through a scenario-based and experiment-based analyses. The paper then discusses how to design collective human behavior with Gameful Digital Rhetoric and how to identify the design’s potential pitfalls. Our approach offers useful insights into the design of future social digital services that influence collective human behavior
... For example, Micro-crowdfunding is a new crowdsourcing infrastructure to encourage a community to increase the sustainability of their surroundings. By incorporating a crowdfunding concept into crowdsourcing, micro-crowdfunding increases a community's willingness to participate in the crowdsourcing activities [7,8]. Instead of using real money, micro-crowdfunding adopts a local currency equipping a special mechanism, called "aging money" [14], from an economic perspective. ...
In this paper, we propose a digital cash system named Blockchain-LI. This is an activity-based micro-pricing system implemented on cryptocurrency technologies. Activity-based micro-pricing is a pervasive technology to influence people's behavior through economic incentives. Implementing activity-based micro-pricing based on cryptocurrency technologies enables us to solve potential technical issues of traditional implementation. The Blockchain-LI architecture adopts a hierarchical currency network containing two types of currencies. The public coin is widely prevalent and has high integrity. The private coins are low integrity digital currencies that connect to the public coin. This approach enables us to solve cryptocurrency problems including scalability and block size. However, to use Blockchain-LI as a social infrastructure system, unresolved problems remain. This paper proposes sustainability, conversion protocols, and security issues as topics for future study.
... A preliminary proposal about micro-crowdfunding reported in[10,11]; more details about design and evaluation can be found in the paper. ...
The paper proposes a new way to encourage a community to increase the sustainability of their surroundings based on crowdsourcing. The most important characteristic in the approach is to automatically insert tasks that increase the community's well-being. Therefore, the more tasks the community's members perform that make their surroundings sustainable, the more they increase their well-being. The research is based on a microcrowdfunding crowdsourcing infrastructure. A new functionality to automatically add micro-tasks to increase a community's well-being is designed for enhancing the infrastructure. We also describe a preliminary user study to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.
... A new approach, community-based mobile crowdsourcing [11, 12] , in which people voluntarily contribute to helping other people anytime and anywhere using mobile phones, has been reported. The task required is usually trivial and, consequently, can be performed with minimal effort and a low cognitive load; we call the small task a micro-task. ...
In this paper, we propose a procedural framework to design collective human behavior for overcoming serious social problems, such as environmental sustainability and human well-being. The framework integrates respective persuasive services installed in urban cities for pervasively guiding people’s behavior towards achieving a sustainable and flourished society. Each persuasive service manages a small piece of human behavior. Each persuasive service is represented as a basic block in our framework; the basic block specifies how to change a piece of an aspect of people’s daily behavior. A service designer connects these basic blocks and coordinates them procedurally by developing a program using mobile phones. The approach enables persuasive services that are pervasively and seamlessly embedded into our daily lives to continuously guide people’s behavior towards ideal sustainable human behavior.
... Emerging computing technologies allow us to enhance the meaning of our real space to alter our attitudes and behaviors [9,12]. For our daily life to become more sustainable and flourish, behavior changes are essential [10,19]. In the current modern society, most people are "interested bystanders" who do not take any actions to influence our daily life. ...
... Increasing social influence is an essential way to alter human attitudes and behaviors [15]. Additionally, virtual currency can be used to facilitate a community's activities [10]. In Alternative Reality, a virtual scene can incorporate virtual currency to display the drawbacks of the current currency system. ...
Augmenting semiotic meaning of the real space is a promising approach to altering human attitudes and behaviors because low motivation is one of the biggest reasons why people do not engage in activism. Incorporating fictionality makes us use more persuasive expressions to change the meaning of the real space. However, there are a few discussions about strategies to enhance the meaning of the real space. In this paper, we analyze two case studies that aim to augment the real space. The case studies use a head mounted display to show the real space by capturing it through a camera, but the space is augmented from the true real space. Our focus, in particular, is criticizing how one can feel a sense of reality in the enhanced real space in these case studies because the persuasiveness of the enhanced real space is lost if a user does not feel a sense of reality. We extract effective insights and potential pitfalls from the analyses of the experiences of the researchers who developed and evaluated the case studies.
... Persuasive digital affordance consists two abstractions: "rhetoric" and "value" as shown in Fig. 1. "Rhetoric" is defined in the PARhetoric model and "value" is defined in the PAValue model. For example, a crowdsourcing infrastructure is embedded in the real world for navigating collective human behavior [1]. Thus, virtual objects can be useful tools for influencing human behavior, thinking, and feeling in the real world [4]. ...
... The PARhetoric model is a semiotic model for designing digital rhetoric to make the digital world meaningful that consists of five types of rhetoric: curious rhetoric, narrative rhetoric, collective rhetoric, social mechanics rhetoric and economic mechanics rhetoric, as shown in Fig. 2. These five types of rhetoric have been extracted from experience with building several crowdsourcing services, as detailed in [1]. The paper provides further evidence of how each rhetoric is extracted from our experiences. ...
We are now living in smart cities, where information technologies enhance our everyday life. For example, our energy management and traffic management have become smarter, making our daily lives more convenient and efficient. However, from a citizen's point of view, a person's well-being needs to be more important than achieving efficient and convenient smart city infrastructures. This is, in particular, an essential issue for achieving human-centered smart city design.
In this paper, we propose a design abstraction referred to as persuasive digital affordance to design meaning in the real world. Persuasive digital affordance contains two models to enhance meaning in the real world based on the concepts typically used in digital games and thereby assist in the design of virtual world.
