socio-political metatheories based on ontological and epistemological foundations, could be devided to different objectivist and subjectivist fronts. according to such a devide, different interpretation of individual-society and agent-structure could be renderd. in contrast,critical metatheories that seek to transcend the contradiction between objectivity-subjectivity in the individual-society ...

Summary In this contribution, I discuss the relevance of epistemological models for psychotherapy. Despite its importance epistemology is seldom explicitly dealt with in psychotherapeutic landscape. Based on presentation “Critical Realism (CR),” position Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy (GTP), intend to show which extent explanatory model supports a differentiated understanding problems betwee...

The realism of avatars in terms of behavioral and form is critical to the development of collaborative virtual environments. In the study we utilized state of the art, realtime face tracking technology to track and render facial expressions unobtrusively in a desktop CVE. Participants in dyads interacted with each other via either a videoconference (high behavioral realism and high form realism...

Many researchers use abstract models to simulate network congestion, finding patterns that might foreshadow onset of congestion collapse. We investigate whether such abstract models yield congestion behaviors sufficiently similar to more realistic models. Beginning with an abstract model, we add elements of realism in various combinations, culminating with a high-fidelity simulation. By compari...

Critical realism holds promise for IS researchers who wish to treat technology as a material artifact, work within an explanatory framework, and take into account the role of context. It is widely acknowledged, however, that critical realism itself does not provide a methodological basis for conducting empirical studies. We therefore seek to provide methodological guidance in the conduct of cri...