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Measuring Human Senses and the Touristic Experience: Methods and Applications

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This chapter discusses measurement techniques which enable researchers to examine the role of human senses in touristic experiences in natural environments. To achieve this goal, we provide a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary review of existing studies, focusing mainly on eight sensory modalities that are related to touristic experience creation. Also, we propose a human-centered approach for extracting contextual sense information using various wearable human-traits sensors. Although each sensory modality provides different information, combining various sensing data together affords us a better understanding of how a traveler creates touristic experiences. As such, it is argued that capturing ‘human sensing’ data offers the potential to transform the way tourism researchers measure traveler’s experiences and therefore design touristic environments.

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  1. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Jeongmi (Jamie) Kim

  2. National Laboratory for Tourism & eCommerce, Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Daniel R. Fesenmaier

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    Daniel R. Fesenmaier

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(Jamie) Kim, J., Fesenmaier, D.R. (2017). Measuring Human Senses and the Touristic Experience: Methods and Applications. In: Xiang, Z., Fesenmaier, D. (eds) Analytics in Smart Tourism Design. Tourism on the Verge. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44263-1_4

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