Foundation for the construction of efficient cadastral systems is the understanding of the reality, which the system should correctly represent. This paper focuses on reality in a cadastre, which comprises the cadastral registry with its input and output operations, as well as people acting according to the rules determined by the cadastral law and the interaction between people and the cadastr...

This article aims at showing that the meaning of ‘presence’ is closely linked to the concept we have of reality, in particular, to the ontology which we more or less explicitly adopt, and that different ontological positions generate different definitions of ‘presence’, ‘telepresence’ and ‘virtual presence’. This leads us to propose a ‘cultural’ concept of presence as a social construction, bas...

This study examined how social reality restricts children's tendency for in-group favoritism in group evaluations. Children were faced with social reality considerations and with group identity concerns. Using short stories, in this experimental study, conducted among 3 age groups (6-, 8-, and 10-year-olds), the authors examined the trait attribution effects of reality constraints on eye-color ...

Reasoning about others' preferences is an important aspect of understanding the social world. Although there is some evidence that young children reason appropriately about others' discrepant preferences, there are reasons to suspect this ability remains fragile through the preschool years. In particular, we argue that the way preferences are expressed may tap into humans' lifelong tendency tow...

Online referrals have become an important mechanism in leveraging consumers’ social networks to spread firms’ promotional campaigns and thus attract new customers. However, despite a robust understanding of the benefits and drivers of consumer referrals, only minimal attention has been paid towards the potential of classical promotional tactics in influencing referral behavior. Therefore, this ...

Introduction. As part of life, social relationships are fundamentally important to humans. Children are born into a family social structure and gradually they become part of a wider social structure including peers, in which each individual’s relationships are affected by other relationships. To most people expressing appropriate non-verbal social behaviours when interacting with others in a vi...

Objective: To conduct a systematic review about the use of virtual reality (VR) for evaluation, treatment and/or rehabilitation of patients with schizophrenia, focused on: areas, fields and objectives; methodological issues; features of the VR used; viability and efficiency of this resource. Methods: Searches were performed about schizophrenia and virtual reality in PsycINFO, Academic Search Co...

The majority of historians agree that social and political reality significantly influences changes in historical thinking, and thereby the development of historical research. However, when we inquire after the mechanism or mechanisms regulating these influences, controversies appear. Differences in viewpoints result from the fact that the relationship between historiography and social life is ...

Extended Reality (XR) technology represents an innovative tool to address the challenges of present, as it allows for experimentation with new solutions in terms content creation and its fruition by different types users. The potential modulate experience based on target audience’s needs project’s objectives makes XR suitable creating accessibility solutions. “Includiamoci” project was carried ...

A concept of fourth generation social network is described as one that, built on the features of augmented reality (AR), is able to implement an enriched layer of digital information that displays in People Augmented Reality (PAR) devices data shared by users in social networks. This PAR layer is accessed by the users in their devices through camera effects when targeting with a mobile phone to...