Chengyang Eight Village is renowned as a gathering site for the Dong ethnic group and the most prominent area for wooden architecture.Drum tower is an extremely important representative of wooden architecture that can...Chengyang Eight Village is renowned as a gathering site for the Dong ethnic group and the most prominent area for wooden architecture.Drum tower is an extremely important representative of wooden architecture that can influence the economic and tourism development of the region,providing functions of public activities,communication,and ethnic identity.However,widespread issues such as damage,abandonment,or disappearance threaten drum towers,which are crucial spiritual centres for Dong villages.Despite the social and functional significance of drum towers,there is a lack of comprehensive understanding of how people interact with them.This study aims to analyse Dong people's choice preferences in drum tower design,to examine the importance of 84 practices and influencing factors and propose a research path for study choice preferences.This study selected five villages among the Chengyang Eight Village as the research sites.Based on data from literature,field investigations,questionnaires and statistical analysis methods,this study analysed the choice preferences of local villagers regarding drum tower design.Five steps,24 elements and 84 practices of drum towers were studied,and the impacts of the four influencing factors(Practicality,Economy,Decoration,and Belonging)on the three levels of the 84 practices were examined.Results showed that drum towers are a part of a complex,mutually reinforcing system where villagers and the towers mutually promote and influence each other.Villagers exhibited ambivalence towards drum tower design,navigating between deep-rooted traditions and evolving functional needs in contemporary contexts.Drawing on the Space-Behaviour Interaction Theory,this study examined the interaction between villagers and drum towers through a comprehensive approach of qualitative and quantitative methods,and established a research path for choice preferences.This study significantly enriches the discourse on minority village studies and traditional architecture,and provides valuable references for cultural heritage preservation and policy formulation.展开更多
Housing and housing space has been a place for personal development, recreation and self accentuation. The need for housing and housing space quality can therefore not be overemphasized. The need for housing remains a...Housing and housing space has been a place for personal development, recreation and self accentuation. The need for housing and housing space quality can therefore not be overemphasized. The need for housing remains a constant index for all societies through the ages. Housing is a complex and heterogeneous product in its setting, the cognitive structures of housing users for housing attributes is also complex as well as their choice behaviors. Means-End Chain （MEC） model has been found to be very effective and potent in measuring these complexities. This conceptual paper explores from literature the MEC model and attempts to propagate its use as a research model for housing research, environment-behavior studies and person-environment congruence. It also presents the methodology employed by MEC for data collection and data management. It will suggest an extension to the traditional methodology that MEC utilizes. The possibility of extending the previous methods and their applicability in design process is herein presented; and to make a case for the usability of MEC model as a research tool for housing researchers. In dealing with user preference of housing, there is a need for research for a development of a technological tool for the identification of user needs and preference, and the kind of decision support that are required to identify these needs.展开更多
Background:This study aimed to investigate physicians’preferences in relation to Internet hospital consultations and to explore the factors influencing their choices.The study also assessed physicians’willingness to...Background:This study aimed to investigate physicians’preferences in relation to Internet hospital consultations and to explore the factors influencing their choices.The study also assessed physicians’willingness to participate in Internet-based hospital consultation services and the demand among physicians to do so.Methods:A total of 119 physicians from two general hospitals and three specialized hospitals in Beijing were selected for a questionnaire survey using a discrete choice experiment design.Physician preferences were analyzed using conditional logit regression.Findings:In descending order of importance,physicians’willingness to engage in Internet hospital consultations was influenced by changes in doctors’share of online diagnosis and treatment performance compared with offline consultations,daily working hours,and response time.Physicians were more likely to choose Internet hospital consultations when there was a 20%increase in the proportion of online consultations compared to offline consultations,a 10%increase in the weight of online consultations in the annual assessment,a 1-hour reduction in offline working hours and a 1-hour increase in online working hours,and a response time of less than 24 h.The subgroup analysis revealed variations in physicians’preferences based on age,professional titles,working years,and department.Younger doctors,those with fewer professional titles,and those with less work experience had higher expectations.Compared to internal medicine and pediatric doctors,surgeons exhibited a greater willingness to work longer hours.Interpretation:Increasing the proportion of online consultations,including online consultations in the annual assessment,reducing offline working hours,extending online availability,and ensuring timely responses can incentivize physicians to choose online hospital consultations.This approach promotes the high-quality development of Internet hospitals by combining economic and noneconomic incentives and optimizing workload distribution.展开更多
文摘Chengyang Eight Village is renowned as a gathering site for the Dong ethnic group and the most prominent area for wooden architecture.Drum tower is an extremely important representative of wooden architecture that can influence the economic and tourism development of the region,providing functions of public activities,communication,and ethnic identity.However,widespread issues such as damage,abandonment,or disappearance threaten drum towers,which are crucial spiritual centres for Dong villages.Despite the social and functional significance of drum towers,there is a lack of comprehensive understanding of how people interact with them.This study aims to analyse Dong people's choice preferences in drum tower design,to examine the importance of 84 practices and influencing factors and propose a research path for study choice preferences.This study selected five villages among the Chengyang Eight Village as the research sites.Based on data from literature,field investigations,questionnaires and statistical analysis methods,this study analysed the choice preferences of local villagers regarding drum tower design.Five steps,24 elements and 84 practices of drum towers were studied,and the impacts of the four influencing factors(Practicality,Economy,Decoration,and Belonging)on the three levels of the 84 practices were examined.Results showed that drum towers are a part of a complex,mutually reinforcing system where villagers and the towers mutually promote and influence each other.Villagers exhibited ambivalence towards drum tower design,navigating between deep-rooted traditions and evolving functional needs in contemporary contexts.Drawing on the Space-Behaviour Interaction Theory,this study examined the interaction between villagers and drum towers through a comprehensive approach of qualitative and quantitative methods,and established a research path for choice preferences.This study significantly enriches the discourse on minority village studies and traditional architecture,and provides valuable references for cultural heritage preservation and policy formulation.
文摘Housing and housing space has been a place for personal development, recreation and self accentuation. The need for housing and housing space quality can therefore not be overemphasized. The need for housing remains a constant index for all societies through the ages. Housing is a complex and heterogeneous product in its setting, the cognitive structures of housing users for housing attributes is also complex as well as their choice behaviors. Means-End Chain （MEC） model has been found to be very effective and potent in measuring these complexities. This conceptual paper explores from literature the MEC model and attempts to propagate its use as a research model for housing research, environment-behavior studies and person-environment congruence. It also presents the methodology employed by MEC for data collection and data management. It will suggest an extension to the traditional methodology that MEC utilizes. The possibility of extending the previous methods and their applicability in design process is herein presented; and to make a case for the usability of MEC model as a research tool for housing researchers. In dealing with user preference of housing, there is a need for research for a development of a technological tool for the identification of user needs and preference, and the kind of decision support that are required to identify these needs.
基金funded by the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality(grant number:9222003).
文摘Background:This study aimed to investigate physicians’preferences in relation to Internet hospital consultations and to explore the factors influencing their choices.The study also assessed physicians’willingness to participate in Internet-based hospital consultation services and the demand among physicians to do so.Methods:A total of 119 physicians from two general hospitals and three specialized hospitals in Beijing were selected for a questionnaire survey using a discrete choice experiment design.Physician preferences were analyzed using conditional logit regression.Findings:In descending order of importance,physicians’willingness to engage in Internet hospital consultations was influenced by changes in doctors’share of online diagnosis and treatment performance compared with offline consultations,daily working hours,and response time.Physicians were more likely to choose Internet hospital consultations when there was a 20%increase in the proportion of online consultations compared to offline consultations,a 10%increase in the weight of online consultations in the annual assessment,a 1-hour reduction in offline working hours and a 1-hour increase in online working hours,and a response time of less than 24 h.The subgroup analysis revealed variations in physicians’preferences based on age,professional titles,working years,and department.Younger doctors,those with fewer professional titles,and those with less work experience had higher expectations.Compared to internal medicine and pediatric doctors,surgeons exhibited a greater willingness to work longer hours.Interpretation:Increasing the proportion of online consultations,including online consultations in the annual assessment,reducing offline working hours,extending online availability,and ensuring timely responses can incentivize physicians to choose online hospital consultations.This approach promotes the high-quality development of Internet hospitals by combining economic and noneconomic incentives and optimizing workload distribution.
