The 07th Asia Pacific International Conference on Quality of Life (AQoL2023) held at Wina Holiday Villa, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, from 30 Sep – 02 Oct 2023, is organised by AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers) in collaboration with cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies, College of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, and co-hosted by Politeknik Internasional Bali (PIB), Bali, Indonesia. It marked AMER’s 43rd international conference to be organized and fully managed by AMER’s subsidiary, emAs (AMER Event Management & Services) under emAs emAs Resources The Game Changer 2021 (#GC2021) initiated in early 2021 whereby it is compulsory for contributions from Malaysia to include international co-authors, is to increase our publications to be contributed by multi-national authors. We believe that initiative would tremendously increases the chances for our publications to be indexed by more reputable indexing bodies, such as Scopus. As such, commencing 2021 only multi-national authored contributions from Malaysia shall be accepted
for publications.
AQoL2023Bali managed to attract an overall total of 66 abstracts. However only 62 abstracts were approved while the remaining four abstracts were rejected due to non-compliance. Of the abstracts approved, authors from 17 countries contributed. Majority of the abstracts were in collaboration with Malaysian authors. The most were together with China (28 numbers) followed by Indonesia (18), United Kingdom and United States of America (3 each), Libya, Philippines, Thailand (2 each), Australia, Egypt, Germany, India, Japan, Nigeria, New Zealand, Oman, and Saudi Arabia (1 each). The approved abstracts were finally transformed into 56 approved papers, a return of 90%. The papers approved were simply grouped generally under 16 sub-categories, although quite a number could have been easily placed under more than one category. The top three categories in order of popularity involved the following environments: – Communication / Social Media Environment and Educational / Learning Environment (7 papers each); Commercial / Retail / Services Environment, Health / Healing Environment, and Sustainable Environment (6 papers each), and Local Heritage Environment (5 papers).
Hopefully this conference will inspire and encourage more researchers to participate in our forthcoming serial conferences. Thanks again for your continuous support as always, and hope for an enlightening conference!
