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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"tour guide"”.
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Tour Guide Translator
Tour Guide Translator is an app that allows tour guides to talk in their language and the tourist can listen to them in their language in real time. Tour guide creates a room for a certain trip and the tourist join the room. Tourists can also send questions to the tour guide in their language and …
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Robotic Tour Guide Platform
… in a dynamic and unmodified environment, giving tours of the Glennan building at Case Western Reserve University. This platform allows for teleoperation as well as full autonomous functionality.
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Last resorts : a tour guide to territorial protection for the Republic of the Maldives
A two meter rise in sea levels projected by the end of this century threatens the sovereignty of the Maldivian nation state. While flight from the Maldives to establish a new homeland elsewhere has been proposed, the culture and economy of this country is inextricably entrenched in its geophysical …
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The Construction of Destination Images in Jordan: Modelling Tour Guide and Tourist Inputs, Interactions and Consequences
… and extensively researched as a key factor in tourism development. However, the construction of destination image during the tourist consumption experience has suffered from a paucity of theorisation, not only in regard to patterns of destination image as perceived by tourists during a visit, …
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Investigation of Hindrances Towards Women Involvement in Tour Guiding Activities in Tanzania: A Case of Arusha Municipality
Tourism is the large and fast growing industry which serves as a source of economic gain worldwide. The millennium Development Goals clearly state to "eradicate extreme poverty and hunger" as goal number one and " to promote gender equality and empower women" as goal number three. Unfortunately …
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The design and implementation of Alan Touring, the Campus Tourbot
Alan Touring, the Campus Tourbot, is a robotic tour-guide/tourist robot for parts of the MIT campus. Work on the robot began in January 2006, and for the past 31 months, I have devoted thousands of hours to designing, implementing, and testing the robot. This thesis describes the hardware and …
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Forbidden City: An Immersive Virtual Reality World Using the HTC VIVE to explore the real imperial palace of China
Forbidden City is a 3D virtual tour of an ancient Chinese architectural masterpiece, first of the world's top five palaces -The Imperial Palace in Beijing, China. This travel guide is designed to give you useful information that will greatly enhance your experience, and it will bring you into an …
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Reintermediation or disintermediation? : the impact of e-commerce on commercial real estate brokerage
… include: database, search engine (sort/match), tour guide, analysis, negotiation, and documentation & closing. The Introduction and Chapter 1 provide an overview of the CRE brokerage industry and current e-commerce business models, Chapter 2 through Chapter 7 examine each functional area from …
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ART AT THE AIRPORT AND THE INTERSECTION OF PUBLIC ART AND PUBLIC HISTORY
… a public setting without a book, a teacher, or tour guide. This study allows me to show the power of public history and public art.
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Narrated guided tour following and interpretation by an autonomous wheelchair
… address this problem by incorporating a narrated guided tour following capability into the autonomous wheelchair. In our method, a human gives a narrated guided tour through the environment, while the wheelchair follows. The guide carries out a continuous dialogue with the wheelchair, describing …
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Pathways to the Eighth Fire: Mapping Indigenous Knowledge in Toronto
… Toronto’s Indigenous community particularly as a tour guide for the highly-regarded community-based Great ‘Indian’ Bus Tour of Toronto, and in-depth semi-structured interviews with a small group of Anishinaabe Torontonians regarding their perceptions of the city and the practice of urban …
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Toward Building A Social Robot With An Emotion-based Internal Control
… Cherry--a robot with the task of being a tour guide and an office assistant for the Computer Science Department at the University of Central Florida. Cherry did not have a formal emotion representation of internal states, but did have the ability to express emotions through her multimodal …
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Lack of Affirmative Consent: Trauma in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies”
… by how Mr. Kapasi, the story’s narrator and the tour guide in whom Mina confides her story, concludes that the “pain” Mina complains of is actually “guilt” (Lahiri 63). The work of Tzuhsiu Beryl Chiu, however, stands out among the scholarship as it suggests that Bobby’s conception was the result …
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Promotional impact of image formation of an aboriginal tourist destination.
… factors on impression of an Aboriginal tourist destination. To gather primary data, visitors to The Glooscap Heritage Centre, in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada completed a self-administered questionnaire. In total there were 309 valid samples. Over 80% of respondents in this study …
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Adult education in the art museum: a content analysis of acoustical guides in American art museums
… components of selected transcripts of acoustical guides used in major American art museums to aid adult audiences in interpreting or enjoying the art on exhibit. The principal objectives of the research were to characterize the content of these recorded tours and to analyze patterns of content …
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La oferta bilingüe en la industria turística como elemento de promoción y calidad: estudio de caso y plan de intervención en la Catedral de Sal de Zipaquirá, Cundinamarca
Presenta el diseño de un plan de intervención orientado a fortalecer las estrategias de comunicación existentes que permitan a La Catedral de Sal de Zipaquirá mejorar los procesos de atención al cliente extranjero (angloparlantes en particular).