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Virtual Reenactment of the Itaewon Crowd Crush Using Kinodynamic Simulation

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Volume 36, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT We propose new crowd simulation methods to virtually reenact the Itaewon disaster that occurred in 2022 due to the extreme crowd density. Conventional techniques make it challenging to simulate diverse, extremely dense crowd behaviors such as crowd surge, fluidization, and falls observed at the Itaewon disaster.
Juyi Hwang, Young J. Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Cross‐sectoral collaboration in times of crisis: Comparing the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland

Public Administration, Volume 103, Issue 3, Page 828-854, September 2025.
Abstract The Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, with their shared political histories, have confronted the compounded challenges of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Ukraine war. These difficulties spurred the emergence of public–nonprofit collaboration in all three countries, each taking distinct paths.
Michal Plaček, Vladislav Valentinov, Gabriela Daniel, František Ochrana, Paweł Mikołajczak, Anna Waligóra   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Ambitious Itinerary: Journey Across the Medieval Buddhist World in a Book, CUL Add.1643 (1015 CE)

Religions
A Sanskrit manuscript of the Prajñāpāramitā or Perfection of Wisdom in eight thousand verses, now in the Cambridge University Library, Add.1643, is one of the most ambitiously designed South Asian manuscripts from the eleventh century, with the highest ...
Jinah Kim
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Art as a Channel and Embodiment of Symbolic Interaction Between Migrants and Non‐Migrants

Symbolic Interaction, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 410-440, August 2025.
Many non‐migrant politicians, journalists, and scholars in migrant‐destination societies often represent migrants with self‐interested objectives and in specific instrumental ways based on stereotypes. Yet research on symbolic interaction reveals migrants are not passive victims.
Jacob Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Tourism studies perspectives on pilgrimage

, 2023
In Chapter 7: Tourism Studies Perspectives on Pilgrimage, Jaeyeon Choe acknowledges that “a tourist is half a pilgrim, if a pilgrim is half a tourist” (Turner & Turner, 1978, p. 20). As tourism studies is a “young field of study,” which was initially
Choe, Jaeyeon; id_orcid
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Navigating Tensions Between Indigeneity and Social Media Participation: A Case Study of the Guarani Community in South America

Information Systems Journal, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 1198-1217, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This study investigates inherent tensions between social media participation and the ways of life in an Indigenous community and subsequent navigation approaches. Relying on an in‐depth qualitative study and the notion of two‐eyed seeing as a theoretical approach, the study focuses on the complex relationship between social media platform ...
Edin Smailhodzic, Aline Fernandes, Nonhlanhla Dube, Monideepa Tarafdar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘The place where you should have been born’—Conservation practitioners sacralising wilderness and developing a sense of belonging in the Manu National Park, Perú

People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 1413-1424, June 2025.
Abstract The management of protected areas is often portrayed as an enterprise guided by objective knowledge and technical criteria, a claim that situates conservation practitioners in positions of power relative to other actors in these spaces. Challenging these claims of objectivity by exploring conservation practitioners' subjective views is vital ...
Eduardo Salazar Moreira
wiley   +1 more source

Metaverse in Tourism and Hospitality: A Framework‐Based Systematic Review

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
The metaverse is projected to contribute over $3 trillion to the global economy by 2031. Major technology firms, including Unity Technologies, Meta, Epic Games, Valve Corporation, Alphabet, and Roblox, invest billions of dollars in its development. Adopting digital technologies such as mixed reality (MR), virtual reality (VR), extended reality (ER ...
Chiranjeeb Debnath, Arpita Srivastava, Tze Wei Liew   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Drift and Sacred Reconfigurations: Rethinking Values and Religious Practices in Digitally Mediated Worlds

Medya ve Din Araştırmaları Dergisi
This study examines how digitalization—particularly through immersive environments such as the metaverse—transforms moral values and religious practices.
Kübra Cevherli
doaj   +1 more source

Virtual Reality’s Impact on Tourist Attitudes in Islamic Religious Tourism: Exploring Emotional Attachment and VR Presence

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
This study explores the integration of immersive technologies, specifically virtual reality (VR), to enhance tourist experiences in the rapidly expanding religious tourism sector. Despite VR’s potential, limited research has examined its impact on religious tourism.
Eman Alkhalifah, Ramy Hammady, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Alyaa Darwish, Ella Cranmer, Ons Al-Shamaileh, Aikaterini Bourazeri, Timothy Jung, David C. Mohr   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source