Disentangling audiences' reactions to creative content and creative packaging
Abstract Research Summary This research addresses the tension of audiences often rejecting creative products despite creativity being foundational to organizational success. To better understand this issue, we take an abductive approach to disentangle the effects of creative content (how creative the core concept is) and creative packaging (how ...
Davide C. Orazi, Pier Vittorio Mannucci
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The development of new technologies continues to increase the complexity of warfare. Artificial intelligence is one of the technologies that can dramatically change the nature of armed conflicts.
Volodymyr Prymirenko +3 more
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Design and implementation of a wargaming system with incomplete observations [PDF]
Modern computer wargames have been widely valued and applied. However, the ideal assumption in wargame systems that the observation among friendly forces is completely shared is far from the reality, which limits the simulation of many real-world ...
XIE Zhiqiang, QI Xiuli, YU Xiaohan, YAO Changhua
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Integrating system dynamics and scenarios: A framework based on personal experience
Abstract System dynamics (SD) is a methodology to generate qualitative and quantitative models. SD has two main concepts that are highly suitable to use with scenarios: feedback processes that define the structure of sociotechnical systems and accumulation processes that are responsible for the dynamic behavior of systems over time.
Martin Kunc
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The Binding of Abraham: Inverting the Akedah in Fail-Safe and WarGames [PDF]
This article draws upon Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and Jacques Derrida'sThe Gift of Death to trace how two exemplars of atomic bomb cinema reinterpret the Binding of Isaac (Akedah).
Dukes, Hunter B
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Competition-related factors directly influence preferences for facial cues of dominance in allies [PDF]
Alliance formation is a critical dimension of social intelligence in political, social and biological systems. As some allies may provide greater ‘leverage’ than others during social conflict, the cognitive architecture that supports alliance formation ...
Jones, Benedict C. +1 more
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Climate catastrophe: The value of envisioning the worst‐case scenarios of climate change
Three modes of climate catastrophe (foresight, agitation, and fiction), each of which offers a different but complementary approach to envisioning the worst‐case scenarios of climate change. Abstract Many now argue that we should think about the previously unthinkable risks of climate change, including societal collapses and human extinction ...
Joe P. L. Davidson, Luke Kemp
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Undercurrents – A Computer-Based Gameplay Tool to Support Tabletop Roleplaying [PDF]
This paper introduces Undercurrents, a computer-based gameplay tool for providing additional communication and media streams during tabletop roleplaying sessions.
Bergström, Karl +2 more
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Understanding Computer Role-Playing Games: A Genre Analysis Based on Gameplay Features in Combat Systems [PDF]
A game genre as diverse as that of computer role-playing games is difficult to overview. This poses challenges or both developers and researchers to position their work clearly within the genre.
Björk, Staffan +1 more
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clicktatorship and democrazy: Social media and political campaigning [PDF]
This chapter aims to direct attention to the political dimension of the social media age. Although current events like the Cambridge Analytica data breach managed to raise awareness for the issue, the systematically organized and ...
Gansinger, Martin A. M., Kole, Ayman
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