An emotional version of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggests that differences in language emotionalities influence differences among cultures no less than conceptual differences. Conceptual contents of languages and cultures to significant extent are determined by words and their semantic differences; these could be borrowed among languages and exchanged among cultures. Emotional differences, as sug...

The paper aims at exploring the potential of using portable devices in managing interaction in (semi)Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) systems reconstructing cultural heritage objects and environments. The main advantage in this innovative mix of technologies is that portable devices are easily handled and enable a friendly interaction to the majority of users, with a reduction in learning time n...

Not only for further understanding of subjects but also for learning analytical thinking or inductive inference, it is important to provide a highly engageable environment where pupils can interact with high quality cultural contents easily. The authors have been developed an interactive exploring tool called CEAX Voyager. One of the important issues to make the learning with CEAX Voyager effec...

While social learning and communication are both widespread in non-human animals, social learning by communication is probably human specific. Humans can and do transmit generic knowledge to each other about animal and artefact kinds, conventional behaviours to be used in specific situations, arbitrary referential symbols, cognitively opaque skills, and know-how embedded in means-end actions. T...

The authors investigated the structure of goal contents in a group of 1,854 undergraduates from 15 cultures around the world. Results suggested that the 11 types of goals the authors assessed were consistently organized in a circumplex fashion across the 15 cultures. The circumplex was well described by positioning 2 primary dimensions underlying the goals: intrinsic (e.g., self-acceptance, aff...

In this paper we discuss issues concerning the development of interactive virtual reality (VR) environments. We argue that the integration of such type of environments with database technology has the potential of providing on one side much flexibility and on the other hand of resulting in enhanced interfaces for accessing contents from digital archives. The paper also describes a project deali...

We investigated the structure of goal contents in a group of 1,854 undergraduates from 15 cultures around the world. Results suggested that the 11 types of goals we assessed were consistently organized in a circumplex fashion across the 15 cultures. The circumplex was welldescribed by positing two primary dimensions underlying the goals: Intrinsic (e.g., selfacceptance, affiliation) vs. Extrins...

This paper describes the innovative annotation facilities of the CULTURA portal for digital humaties, which are aimed at improving the interaction of non specialist users and general public with cultural heritage contents. The annotation facilities are comprised by two modules: the FAST annotation service as back-end and the CAT Web front-end integrated in the CULTURA portal.

Cultural content on the web is available in various forms (documents, images, audio tracks, videos, collection items, learning objects etc.), concern various topics (art, history, handicraft, etc.), is written in different languages, is targeted to both laymen and experts, and is provided by different independent memory organizations (museums, archives, libraries) and individuals. The difficult...

objectives : considering the importance of delusions in diagnosing of psychosis and the role of culture in the forming of delusions this study investigates the content of delusions among psychotic patients. method: subjects were 250 psychotic patients (165 male, 85 female) who had been admitted to shahid esmaili center during 1992 – 1996. 75% of them were aged 15 – 45, 106 of subjects were sing...