Inability to recognize or be aware of who we are (person), what we are doing (situation), the time and date (time), or where we are in relation to our environment (place) To be considered a problem, it must be consistent, result in difficulty functioning, and not due to forgetting or being lost
1 La tendency to loose the sense of the own position and direction in a non linear document 2 The geography of an informative network can be, without special navigation instruments very difficult to face Graphical approaches of software engineering have developed systems to display data retrieved from large and complex databases, using different approaches and points of view Besides, if a hypertext network is in large scale activated then the quantity of nodes and links of which it is composed renders almost impossible a proper spatial representation, unless some kind of filtering is used As a particular aspect of knowledge transfer processes, disorientation can be useful to learning In exploratory learning the departure map does not exist, but the student can create it
Not knowing where you are, who you are, or the current date Health professionals often speak of a normal person as being oriented "times three" which refers to person, place and time
confusion about the time of day, date, or season (time), where one is (place), or who one is (person) Confusion; impairment of awareness of time, place, and person (the position of the self in relation to other persons)