David Zejda

University of Hradec Králové · Department of Information Technologies

Sustainability of tourism development in protected areas relies largely on the ability of destination management to harmonize the activities of visitors, local communities, entrepreneurs and other tourism actors with the primary aim of nature and landscape protection. Based on conceptual analysis, the manuscript refines tourism carrying capacity th...

Visitor management in protected areas requires knowledge of visitors—their numbers, time-space curves, motivation, behavior, and satisfaction as an important input. The systematic analysis, comparison, and synthesis of visitor monitoring methods, with the focus on methods for individual tracking, is conceptualized in the form of a mind map. The map...

Academics perceive a great potential of virtual worlds in various areas, including tourism and education. Efforts adapting the virtual worlds in practice are, however, still marginal. There is no clear definition of the virtual world. Therefore the author of this article attempts to provide one. The paper also focuses on the barriers of a wider exp...

Intelligent assistive robots as well as other products of applied science have great potential to improve different aspects of our lives. In the past, some promising products and whole technologies failed to meet goals set for them by the scientists, inventors and manufacturers. Some of them have been set on the side line, the rest were left in obl...

Ambient intelligence, as well as other fields of advanced applied science and technology, has a potential to improve quality of our lives. But the whole context, including psychological, and social aspects, have to be considered if we wish to make our technology resonating with user's real needs. The paper shows, how may rational choice theory and...

With boost of interest in Web 2.0 technologies, appropriate trust models are increasingly more important. First section the paper contains state of the art about trust characteristics, in particular multidimensionality, contextuality, scope of relevance, transitivity and asymmetry. Transitivity as a key aspect utilized in most models is described i...

Ambient systems may support the elderly in many aspects of their lives, bringing new level of comfort, higher safety, and better health. But, as we revealed in parallel research on deep design, there are dissonances in what do the elderly wish and what the intelligent technologies indeed offer. The dissonances may lead to reluctant acceptance or ev...

Deep design outlined in the paper is a new approach, where not only tasks, immediate emotions or habits and behaviours are considered. Deep design aims to identify sources of emotionally rich and strong experiences and feelings in order to augment them subsequently by means of smart technology. The most intrinsical needs of users, their deep needs,...

Nowadays dozens of people share their content in the current Web 2.0 space, talk with friends in social networking sites such as Facebook and live on the Net in many other ways. They do all this quite naturally, forgetting the healthy cautiousness sometimes. In real life we rely on trusted people. Do we know how to reflect real-world trust mechanis...

Abstrakt S přerodem webu podle paradigmat Webu 2.0 směrem k prostředí otevřenému nejrůznějším sociálním aktivitám přibývá i uživatelů komunitních portálů, které tak zažívají nebývalý rozvoj. Nicméně stále vlastně nevíme, jak vhodně popsat uživatele komunitního webu, jak co nejlépe zachytit jeho zájmy a touhy a jak mu vhodně pomoci při hledání přáte...

With boost of interest in multi-user networking ranging from Web 2.0 technologies to agent systems and smart environments, various aspects of mutual interactions between system components, including but not limited to human users themselves, have to be considered. Trust is one of core dimensions of vital, multilaterally beneficial interactions. In...