National Taiwan Normal University

Tracing Spatial Interaction and Collaborative Inquiry Learning in a Metaverse: A Log-Based Comparison Study of Gather Town and a Web-Based Environment

Spatial virtual environments enable proximity-based communication and continuous awareness of others’ locations, potentially reshaping how learners coordinate collaborative inquiry. This study compared a spatial metaverse environment with a functionally comparable web-based syste...

Service sustainability across cultures: leveraging the SHIFT framework for mobile service engagement

Purpose Although prior studies on sustainable services have examined the issue in contexts such as health care and fashion, existing theories often focus on isolated drivers and therefore offer limited insight into sustained engagement with mobile services for essential daily con...

Terminology for describing the 24-h cycle of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep: a scoping review

Abstract Background Physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep are three behaviours which occupy the 24-h cycle and interact to influence a multitude of health outcomes. Different terms are currently used to describe these behaviours collectively (e.g., movement behaviours...

Latent patterns in pitch-shift responses: association with working memory and temporal changes in response magnitude

This study investigated how working memory capacity is associated with individual differences in vocal responses to auditory perturbations during speech production. Fifty-two native Mandarin speakers participated in an altered auditory feedback (AAF) experiment, sustaining the vo...