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Social Impact, Business Schools, And Libraries: Beginning The Discussion, Lumarie Guth

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

In the 2020 AACSB accreditation standards for business schools a new standard was introduced to promote Social Impact based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This talk will track discussion of the standard among business school administrators, detail early applications, and theorize opportunities for libraries to partner with business schools to achieve these goals.

Five Finger Advocacy: An Alternative To The Elevator Pitch, Ilana Stonebraker

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

How do we find ways to take the stories we tell and give them more impact? In this lightning talk, I present the five finger lobbying model as an alternative to elevator pitch. The five finger model includes: 1) Introduce yourself 2) What is my issue 3) Why do I care (personal story) 4) Why should they care? 5) Make the ask. This is great alternative to the elevator pitch because it centers the audience and the intent into the communication. Five finger advocacy librarians who want to communicate value, but also identify shared goals. It can also be helpful …

Using Business Databases To Inform Data Privacy Practices, James Henry Smith

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Data Privacy is an active practice that requires users to actively participate in informed consenting for their personal data protection. Part of that process is gathering information about the companies that request access to users data. In this lightning talk, an information literacy librarian will walk participants through the metacognitive process of deciding which data to share with companies when interacting with their online interfaces. This process starts with acknowledging the value of personal data collection, then a walk through which business databases users can engage with to better understand how their data exhaust is bought and sold to data …

Chatgpt: The New Business Librarian?, Michael Deike

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

With the early 2023 public release of ChatGPT, natural language models and generative artificial intelligence (AI) have been making waves across numerous industries and academic communities. Many are speculating on the impact it will have in the education industry, including libraries. Librarians may already be dealing with patrons whose inquiries are a result of information generated by AI, and some may be adopting the tool themselves to augment various work processes. This talk will briefly cover takeaways of an ongoing research project at the University of Notre Dame’s Thomas Mahaffey Jr. Business Library assessing the capabilities of ChatGPT when applied …

Makeyourstory: Showcasing Student Entrepreneurs, Annette Bochenek

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

This presentation details the Purdue MakeYourStory podcast, highlighting stories of student entrepreneurs and various forms of "making." Among many achievements, this podcast details use of the makerspace, student Soybean Competition innovations, and TikTok content creation.

A New Business Librarian’S First 6 Weeks Before The Mbls, Neal Baker

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

No abstract provided.

Strictly Business At Wilmette Public Library, John Amundsen

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

When I was promoted to the newly-created position of Business Librarian at Wilmette Public Library in Chicago's north suburbs, I was given the responsibility to build our business services, resources, and programming from scratch.

Eco-Friendly Web Search Engines: Fit For Purpose?, Marydee Ojala

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

No abstract provided.

Rolling Back Link Rot: Using Automation And Project Management For File Url Error Detection And Cleanup On An Economic Research Web Application, Scott St. Louis

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

No abstract provided.

Leveraging Ai Platforms For Business Librarians And Information Professionals: Developing Pedagogical Strategies To Disseminate Information And Improve Learning Retention., Jonathan Torres

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms continue to revolutionize college students' learning and retrieval methods. This technological advancement in higher ed has pivoted instructors' pedagogical practices, making it challenging for professors to disseminate information and differentiate AI assistance with course assignments submitted by students. The magnitude of recent changes in students' information-seeking behavior has raised the question: How can Business Librarians incorporate AI tools into information and data literacy?

My lightning talk will discuss the need for proper accountability in information curation using AI platforms. Furthermore, this presentation will provide pedagogical strategies that show the strengths and limitations of ChatGPT as well …

Exploring Chatgpt For Business Question/Assignments, Rhonda J Mcginnis

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Lightning Talk for the Midwest Business Librarians Summit on testing the ChatGPT AI service using academic business questions and scenarios. The brief presentation will show and comment on the results of a variety of questions posed to the Chat GPT service that reflect common types of questions from different business disciplines. It will conclude with an assessment of what this and other similar tools might mena for the future of Business Librarianship

Visual Literacy Support For Business Students And Faculty: Preliminary Results From Needs Assessment Study, Zoeanna A. Mayhook, Wanju Huang

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

No abstract provided.

Measuring The Emotional Impact Of Climate Change Images On Tourists: A Neuromarketing Study., Carmen Kraaijkamp, Patricia Picazo Peral, Sergio Moreno Gil

ITSA 2022 Gran Canaria - 9th Biennial Conference: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Tourism Strategies After Covid 19

No abstract provided.

Quantifying The Impact Of Airlines Exit In Tourism Destinations. The Cases Of Monarch And Thomas Cook, Ubay Pérez-Granja, Juan Luis Eugenio-Martin

ITSA 2022 Gran Canaria - 9th Biennial Conference: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Tourism Strategies After Covid 19

We analyze the impact on tourists’ arrivals after the bankruptcies of Monarch Airlines and Thomas Cook. It draws on arrivals from the UK to Canary Islands and it employs a univariate and multivariate structural time series with level interventions. More interestingly, after Monarch exit, the policymakers applied a laissez faire strategy, which resulted in a 93.04% net loss of their level of traffic in Tenerife. However, after Thomas Cook exit, the policymakers intervened in the market proposing incentives to the incumbent airlines to cover the loss. It resulted in a 34.72% net loss of Thomas Cook level of traffic. Moreover, …

Managing E-Mindful Tourism Experiences: A Co-Creation Approach, Uglješa Stankov

ITSA 2022 Gran Canaria - 9th Biennial Conference: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Tourism Strategies After Covid 19

No abstract provided.

A Creative Perspective On The Tourism Industry In Romania, Alexandra Zamfirache

ITSA 2022 Gran Canaria - 9th Biennial Conference: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Tourism Strategies After Covid 19

The purpose of this scientific paper is to review various aspects of the negative impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the tourism sector in Romania. The paper is based on research that combines a analysis of economic indicators, completed a qualitative research, based on in-depth interviews conducted on the population of Brasov on assessing the travel during the pandemic. Based on the results of research and exploratory research in the literature, we have listed in a concise manner several measures to make tourism cleaner, safer and more sustainable after this famous pandemic.

Insearch Of Local Indigenous Dishes: An Analysis Of Casual Dinning Restaurants, South Africa, Sisa Ngcwangu Mr

ITSA 2022 Gran Canaria - 9th Biennial Conference: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Tourism Strategies After Covid 19

This paper explores menus of casual dining restaurants in Mbombela, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. The focus of the paper is to search for local indigenous dishes with an aim to find out if these restaurants include local cuisine in their menus. Literature has established that food is one of the primary motivators for travellers when making a decision as to which destination to travel to. Restaurants are places where most tourists will have their meals during their stay in a destination. This creates an opportunity for a region to further entrench itself in the memory of the tourist, thus increase …

Instagram Travel Influencers Coping With Covid-19 Travel Disruption, Andrei Kirilenko, Katarzyna Emin, Karen Tavares

ITSA 2022 Gran Canaria - 9th Biennial Conference: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Tourism Strategies After Covid 19

A significant portion of today’s marketing is done through social media influencers, that is, through bloggers with established online credibility in a certain area who are recognized and followed by a sizable online audience. In the travel and hospitality industry, the influencer marketing is primarily done through Instagram due to its emphasis on visual images rather than texts. Covid-19 related travel restrictions and shrinking social media advertisement in travel industry have heavily impacted travel influencers, reducing their income and forcing many out of business. We present the outcomes of a study of the top 150 online travel influencers. The analysis …

Shark-Diving Tourism In The Macaronesian Archipelagos: Challenges And Opportunities, Pedro Gonzáles Mantilla

ITSA 2022 Gran Canaria - 9th Biennial Conference: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Tourism Strategies After Covid 19

The Macaronesian region is typically heavily exploited by fisheries; however, in recent years, marine wildlife tourism has become popular and a shark-diving industry has emerged, potentially presenting an alternative for the sustainable use of sharks. Combining a literature review with interviews with dive operators conducting shark encounters in the Macaronesian archipelagos, we provide an overview of the challenges and conservation potential of shark-diving tourism for these territories. Owing to the regular presence of important shark species for tourism and the growth of the scuba-diving industry, shark-diving has potential to expand over the region. Yet, the overlap between European industrial fishing …

Inaugural Defense And Security Research Symposium Of The Purdue Military Research Institute, Chad Laux, J. Eric Dietz, John Springer, Randy Rapp, Leon Robert

Purdue Military Research Institute: Inaugural Defense & Security Research Symposium “Academia as a Strategic National Asset”

This document is the full conference proceedings from June 26-27, 2023.

Extracting Edges In Space And Time During Visual Fixations, Lynn Schmittwilken, Marianne Maertens

MODVIS Workshop

No abstract provided.

A Signal Detection Model For The Analysis Of Continuous Response Gradients And An Application To Confidence Rating Data, Fabian A. Soto

MODVIS Workshop

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Modelling Pairwise Comparisons For Thurstonian Scaling And Kendall Rank Correlation, Maarten Wijntjes

MODVIS Workshop

Pairwise comparisons are a simple and effective way to measure the relative ordering of two samples. For more than two samples, a global ordering can be constructed and with sufficient data it is possible to construct a metric scale, for example by using Thurstonian scaling. We will discuss the concept of Number of Distinguishable Levels (NDLs) that emerges from a Thurstonian scaling procedure. The NDL is the attribute range in terms of Just Noticeable Differences (JNDs), for example the number of grayscale values. The NDL is either limited by the visual system or by the range of stimuli. The latter …

The Model 2.0 And Friends: An Interim Report, Garrison W. Cottrell, Martha Gahl, Shubham Kulkarni, Shashank Venkatramani, Yash Shah, Keyu Long, Xuzhe Zhi, Shivaank Agarwal, Cody Li, Jingyuan He, Thomas Fischer

MODVIS Workshop

Last year, I reported on preliminary results of an anatomically-inspired deep learning model of the visual system and its role in explaining the face inversion effect. This year, I will report on new results and some variations on network architectures that we have explored, mainly as a way to generate discussion and get feedback. This is by no means a polished, final presentation!

We look forward to the group’s suggestions for these projects.

How Object Segmentation And Perceptual Grouping Emerge In Noisy Variational Autoencoders, Ben Lonnqvist, Zhengqing Wu, Michael H. Herzog

MODVIS Workshop

Many animals and humans can recognize and segment objects from their backgrounds. Whether object segmentation is necessary for object recognition has long been a topic of debate. Deep neural networks (DNNs) excel at object recognition, but not at segmentation tasks - this has led to the belief that object recognition and segmentation are separate mechanisms in visual processing. Here, however, we show evidence that in variational autoencoders (VAEs), segmentation and faithful representation of data can be interlinked. VAEs are encoder-decoder models that learn to represent independent generative factors of the data as a distribution in a very small bottleneck layer; …

Constraining The Binding Problem Using Maps, Zhixian Han, Anne Sereno

MODVIS Workshop

We constrained the binding problem by creating maps of different attributes. We compared the performance of different models with different maps in our current study. Our preliminary results showed that the performance of the model is the highest when location maps were used. These results suggest that the optimal way to constrain the binding problem is to create location maps of different attributes.

Evaluating Models Of Scanpath Prediction, Matthias Kümmerer, Matthias Bethge

MODVIS Workshop

No abstract provided.

Modeling The Spread Of Object-Based Attention During Free Viewing, Nicolas Roth, Olga Shurygina, Flora Marleen Muscinelli, Klaus Obermayer, Martin Rolfs

MODVIS Workshop

No abstract provided.

A Dynamical Model Of Binding In Visual Cortex During Incremental Grouping And Search, Daniel Schmid, Daniel A. Braun, Heiko Neumann

MODVIS Workshop

Binding of visual information is crucial for several perceptual tasks. To incrementally group an object, elements in a space-feature neighborhood need to be bound together starting from an attended location (Roelfsema, TICS, 2005). To perform visual search, candidate locations and cued features must be evaluated conjunctively to retrieve a target (Treisman&Gormican, Psychol Rev, 1988). Despite different requirements on binding, both tasks are solved by the same neural substrate. In a model of perceptual decision-making, we give a mechanistic explanation for how this can be achieved. The architecture consists of a visual cortex module and a higher-order thalamic module. While the …

Object Rigidity: Competition And Cooperation Between Motion-Energy And Feature- Tracking Mechanisms And Shape-Based Priors, Akihito Maruya, Qasim Zaidi Dr.

MODVIS Workshop

No abstract provided.