Based on the sense of place theory and the design principles of guidance and interpretation, this study developed an augmented reality mobile guidance system that used a historical geo-context-embedded visiting strategy. This tool for heritage guidance and educational activities enhanced visitor sense of place. This study consisted of 3 visitor groups (i.e., AR-guidance, audio-guidance, and no-...

The fragments and compartments of medical knowledge are not the only causes of difficulty found to form surgeons. The abandon of medical education associated with human science (social science) has formed professionals that understand biological science but don't understand life science. The distance from individual and cultural everyday reality enables one to not understand uniqueness and diff...

We propose a new methodology for real-time mobile mixed reality systems that feature realistic simulations of animated virtual human actors (clothes, body, skin, face) who augment real environments and re-enact staged storytelling dramas. Although initially targeted at Cultural Heritage Sites, the paradigm is by no means limited to such subjects. The abandonment of traditional concepts of stati...

While the current focus on how digital technology alters our conception of the self and its place in the broader perceived reality yields fascinating insight into modern issues, there is much to be gained by analyzing the presence of dualist and augmented reality discourses in a pre-digital era. This essay will examine the ontological interplay of textual dualist norms in the Russian and Soviet...

As forms of visual evidence, photographs of melting glaciers function as powerful and persuasive signs of the visible impacts of climate change upon the landscape. Indeed, such photographs have fi gured as vital tools in historical efforts by environmental campaign groups to bring public and political attention to the reality of climate change over the past two decades.1 Since Greenpeace fi rst...

Racial variations in preterm birth (PTB) outcomes are well described, but causal mechanisms linking race and PTB are not. In clinical research, race is typically treated as representing fixed biological traits. In reality, race is a social construct that approximates lived experiences of historical and ongoing systematic discrimination and, in the case of PTB, particular stressors of black woma...

Because of its benefits in providing an engaging and mobile environment, virtual reality (VR) has recently been rapidly adopted integrated education professional training. Augmented (AR) is the integration VR with real world, where world provides context or reconstructs missing information. Mixed (MR) blending physical environments allowing users to interact both digital objects at same time. I...

Recent commercial virtual reality shows have become very demanding in terms of interactive credibility and visual realism. In an effort to push further the immersive quality and the sense of 'being there' in the most recent VR production of the Foundation of the Hellenic World “A Walk through Ancient Olympia”, the user, apart from virtually visiting the historical site, becomes an interacting p...

The linguistic relativity hypothesis, the proposal that the particular language we speak influences the way we think about reality, forms one part of the broader question of how language influences thought. Despite long-standing historical interest in the hypothesis, there is relatively little empirical research directly addressing it. Existing empirical approaches are classified into three typ...