In the light of Cultural Computing, this study influences user affect and behaviour by touching upon core values of Western culture. We created an augmented reality environment in which users experience a predefined sequence of emotional states and events. This study concerns two typically Western drives: boredom and curiosity. We specifically address the arousal of boredom, a mental state char...

The article poses the thesis that boredom is main driving force of consumer capitalist system. Through a sequence social and cultural shifts freeloading on natural human predispositions, system has manufactured new type being, homo consumens, who socialized to be passive, desire- dream-driven, addicted novelty, constant change, ceaseless stream stimuli, pleasure. Boredom enables smooth function...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between family function and marital satisfaction with marital disaffection of married couples (teachers)  in behshahr.   the research method is descriptive and co-relational. the study sample group consisted of 250 married teachers in 2016, of which 150 of them were selected according to morgan random sampling. the research instruments w...

Any adaptive organism faces the choice between taking actions with known benefits (exploitation), and sampling new actions to check for other, more valuable opportunities available (exploration). The latter involves informationseeking, a drive so fundamental to learning and long-term reward that it can reasonably be considered, through evolution or development, to have acquired its own value, i...

We investigated the relationship between self-regulation and two types of boredom proneness (perceived lack of internal stimulation, perceived lack of external stimulation) using a variety of measures of self-regulation. These included a general measure of self-control, measures of both regulatory focus (i.e., promotion or a sensitivity to gains/non-gains vs. prevention or a sensitivity to loss...

banberz, banbor, and sabziabad neighborhoods are three residential districts on the peripheryof ilam city, and are facing a lot of problems namely social, economic, and physical, particularly in housing sectorincluding low quality, poor housing, limited-quantity housing. in order to assess the sustainability of housing, 75indicators and to rank districts, spss software (exploratory factor analy...