O2O Destination Marketing Using a Location-Based GPS Game: by Akinori Ono, Makoto Ono

“…By holding a short-term local digital stamp rally featuring a bishôjo character, this approach has succeeded in attracting three kinds of otaku—game otaku, railroad otaku, and bishôjo character otaku—who are enthusiastic about the game and willing to spend much of their time and money to visit the destination where the digital stamp rally is held. …”
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Robotic action/observation planning for playing yamakuzushi based on human motion by Tomohiro MOTODA, Weiwei WAN, Kensuke HARADA

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A proposal on stability improvement of resource matching in crowdsourced manufacturing by Takafumi CHIDA, Toshiya KAIHARA, Nobutada FUJII, Daisuke KOKURYO

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Study on restitution characteristics of new/old rubber baseballs and metal baseball bat adapting to the new rubber baseball by Shinobu SAKAI, Daisuke YASUTOMI, Jin-Xing SHI, Akira URAKAMI, Masato MIZOGUCHI

“…In rubber baseball games, when the rubber ball is hit by a baseball bat, the rubber ball is deformed greatly comparing to an official baseball ball, and the batted ball speed decreases due to the energy loss during the deformation. …”
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Aspects of Marketing for Tourism by Kei Kuriki

“…The expansion of inbound tourism continues and the Olympic Games are imminent. Tourism has gained widespread public attention beyond specific issues of the industry. …”
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New Product Development in the Digital Society by Hidehiko Nishikawa

“…First, changes in products themselves include the appearance of “digital goods” such as software (e.g., applications and games), content (e.g., music and movies), and information (e.g., weather forecasts and news); and “smart products” such as smartphones and smart speakers that are connected to the Internet and have small PCs built in. …”
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Segmentation of Rugby Spectators: by Hirotaka Matsuoka, Taeahn Kang, Yukako Wada

“…Questionnaire surveys were administered in the stadium to spectators who attended rugby games, obtaining a valid sample of 3,140. Two-Step cluster analysis using variables related to past sports-related experience, knowledge, and reasons for watching the game revealed five valid clusters. …”
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Generational Cohort Analysis of Sports Spectators: by Tatsuru Nishio

“…Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify the characteristics of each generation of fans at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan and to determine the influence of the four generational categories of the “Generational Cohort Theory” (Generation Z, Generation Y (Millennials), Generation X, and Baby Boomers) on their motivations and satisfaction with the games, using regression analysis. This analysis reveals the sports spectating characteristics of each of these four groups, and provides information on female fans, who have been a difficult target to tackle in the rugby fan marketing field, and niwaka (bandwagon) fans, who demonstrate an enthusiastic but short-term interest in the sport that only lasted during the World Cup 2019 period. …”
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Aerodynamic stability of a badminton shuttlecock by Kenichi NAKAGAWA, Hiroaki HASEGAWA, Masahide MURAKAMI, Shigeru OBAYASHI

“…Badminton is one of the most popular sports in the world and is famous as the sport having the fastest initial velocity of a batted ball among all ball games. Initial velocity immediately after smashing may reach up to 408 km/h (113 m/s) at maximum. …”
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Automatic image analysis of an archery arrow in free flight using high-speed video cameras by Riku MURAKAMI, Hiroya MAMORI, Takeshi MIYAZAKI, Naoya TAKAHASHI

“…Archery at the Olympic games is a competition that hits a target 70 m away. …”
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A Structural Analysis of Loyalty in Professional Baseball: by Erika Tanaka

“…Second, a covariance structure analysis showed that, for all three teams, factors related to the game strongly affected customer satisfaction and loyalty, whereas stadium experience factors that were less related to the game did not necessarily affect these items. …”
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Enthusiastic Fandom: by Makoto Mizuno, Yukie Sano, Kazutoshi Sasahara

“…We examined how these factors are influenced by the performance in each game and the likelihood of success in the season. …”
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Development of bilateral remote controller “Armrest Joystick” (Design of controller mechanism with weight compensation) by Hiroaki ISHIDA, Shigeo HIROSE, Tetsuo HAGIWARA, E. Fumihiko FUKUSHIMA, Gen ENDO

“…It is a common choice to use commercial game controllers with joysticks and buttons to control such robots, but many complex manipulation tasks require much higher operability only achieved by Master-Slave systems. …”
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Challenges of the WE League, the First Women’s Professional Football League: by Yoshihiro Oi

“…The WE League has the mission of both growing the game of football and solving social issues, include gender equality and women’s empowerment. …”
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Carved seal recognition method of the steel spherical surface with mirror reflection using RBF typed neural network by Fumiaki TAKEDA

“…We discuss the recognition ability according to the several conditions such as lighting and editing method of the learning data for the NN using image of the steal ball for the pinball game. First, we analyze them from a viewpoint of the advanced image processing and construct the neuro recognition system for the carved seal. …”
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Trends and Changes in Price Fairness in Marketing Research by Yuki Haga

“…We also briefly summarize studies of the consequences of pricing strategies implemented by firms using game models and other methods that assume a situation in which consumers perceive a sense of price fairness. …”
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Evaluation of restitution performance and examination of estimate equation of coefficient of restitution of table tennis racket by Hidechika KARASAWA, Hanae SHINOYAMA, Yukihiro ISHIBASHI, Tetsuya SAKAI, Kazuyoshi ARAI

“…In this study, first, to understand the restitution characteristics of the table tennis ball used in the official game, an impact test was conducted on a pseudo-rigid wall at low to high velocity. …”
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A study on multi-supplier collaborative logistics network with resource sharing under demand uncertainty (Second report, a comparative analysis of shared freight transport and a pr... by Asumi ITO, Toshiya KAIHARA, Daisuke KOKURYO

“…We propose a new methodology to introduce a two-stage stochastic program and cooperative game theory to design a transport network that incorporates truck sharing and Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) shipping under demand uncertainty. …”
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3D billiard dynamics with finite rotation, contact, collision and slip friction by Fumio FUJII, Kuo Mo HSIAO, Takaya KOBAYASHI, Yoshihiro INOUE, Takahiro NITTA

“…All computed results well agree with the hustler’s experiences in game practice. The present research work will contribute to develop a skill-up program of professional hustlers.…”
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