This article aims to highlight the importance of communication via media devices for human social development. For this, an analysis was made in two distinct scenarios: the first scenario is from 2014; it is a working group on Facebook, composed of ...

Large displays can provide the necessary space and resolution for comprehensive explorations of data visualizations. However, designing and developing visualizations for such displays pose distinct challenges. Identifying these challenges is essential ...

Digital platforms contribute significantly to sustainable development yet pose specific risks to developing countries. Using a World Bank global database of antitrust actions complemented by secondary data, we empirically analyze developing ...

• Digital platforms contribute significantly to sustainable development yet pose specific risks to developing countries.
• Using a World Bank global database of antitrust actions, we empirically analyze developing countries' regulatory ...

Blockchain technology faces significant challenges related to sustainability, including issues with optimisation, as well as high energy and gas consumption—factors that developers may sometimes neglect. We introduce a methodology to analyse the key ...

Computational modeling plays an increasingly important role in neuroscience, highlighting the philosophical question of how computational models explain. In the particular case of neural network models, concerns have been raised about their ...

Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) makes a significant contribution to economic growth; it is crucial to the market success of digital technologies, including digital services, platforms, and devices, which drive the economic engine. Economic growth, ...

Empirical studies on gaming disorder (GD) predominantly employ cross-sectional designs, offering limited insights into the development of GD. The existing longitudinal studies on the risk factors of GD often yield contradictory results and ...

• Examination of the developmental changes and mutual connection between risk factors and symptoms of gaming disorder (GD).
• Developmental trends in stress, internet addiction, ADHD, and aggression/hostility are predictive of GD ...

The problem of internet connectivity in the Philippines has added a heavy burden to the online learning environment and the use of learning management systems by the nursing educational sector. Thus, the researchers developed the Filipinized ...

Perspective taking (PT) is a cognitive ability that enables people to imagine how an object or a scene appears from a perspective different from their current physical viewpoint. This is a fundamental ability, especially for navigating in the ...

• Investigating space elaboration during development to understand how it changes with age.
• Focusing on perspective taking as an important skill to develop other complex skills during life.
• Focusing on perspective taking between 6 ...

Despite the crucial role of creativity in the dynamic and intricate practice of Information Systems Development (ISD), our understanding of its emergence in ISD teams is limited. Prior research has focused on isolated interventions into the ...

• Examines creativity in IS development via socio-technical component interactions.
• Advances a socio-technical perspective on emergent creativity in ISD teams.
• Reveals creativity emergence at a multinational banking software ...

The family entertainment center serves as the primary entertainment intermediary, catering especially to young people and adults through various games, such as virtual reality and the latest entertainment revolution of 3D technology. In order to ...

Impaired manual dexterity is frequent and disabling in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), affecting activities of daily living and quality of life.

To develop a new immersive virtual-reality (VR) headset-based dexterity ...

Top tech interviews test coding and CS knowledge overtly, but they also evaluate a deeper technical instinct so subtly that candidates seldom notice the appraisal. We'll learn how interviewers create questions to covertly measure a skill that sets the ...

Society is currently immersed in a highly digitalised panorama due to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The educational process is also in a period of constant technological change and renewal. The transformation of education and ...

Urban areas across the globe are increasingly finding their way into the Smart Cities approach. As an initiative that aims to improve the quality of citizens' lives by finding new solutions to deal with urban problems deriving from fast urbanization, ...

Cognitive load theory proposes a framework to characterize the mental effort employed by individuals in their tasks. To properly measure the cognitive load of a certain activity, it is important to know its drivers, which may vary according to the ...

Bob is in prison and Alice is dead; they trusted computers with secrets. Review time-tested tricks that can help you avoid the grim fate of the old crypto couple.

Embedded MAS development requires knowledge in different areas, such as agent-oriented programming, object-oriented programming, low-level programming, and basic electronics concepts. The literature has a consolidated Embedded MAS development ...

The pattern of lateralization in the developing brain partly reveals the maturation of the brain and provides a reliable reference for researchers to assess whether the brain is developing normally. Functions associated with distinct patterns of brain ...

We propose a simple model of distribution of economic activity across cities of endogenous size and number determined by individual incentives. The individuals populating our model are endowed with idiosyncratic entrepreneurial creativity, the ...