Culture and Computing: Computing and Communication for Crosscultural Interaction

ISBN-13: 9783642171833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 229 str.

Toru Ishida

Opis

Given the context of salient and systemic global issues such as the environment, information technologies will be required to overcome the problems inherent in intercultural communication. Culled from a key conference held in Japan, this volume explores how.

Spis treści

Culturally Situated Agents.- Using Immersive Simulations to Develop Intercultural Competence.- Cross-Cultural Study on Facial Regions as Cues to Recognize Emotions of Virtual Agents.- Availability of Multilingual Chat Communication in 3D Online Virtual Space.- Capture and Express Behavior Environment (CEBE) for Realizing Enculturating Human-Agent Interaction.- Intercultural Collaboration and Support Systems.- Hesitation in Intercultural Communication: Some Observations and Analyses on Interpreting Shoulder Shrugging.- A Socio-Cultural Model Based on Empirical Data of Cultural and Social Relationships.- Dynamic Term Suggestion for Searching Multilingual School Documents.- Intercultural Collaboration Support System Using Disaster Safety Map and Machine Translation.- Development of a Multilingual Translation Service for Interpretations and Usage Examples of Mobile Phone Pictograms.- Culture and Computing for Art and Heritage.- Cultural Computing – Creative Power Integrating Culture, Unconsciousness and Software.- Logos, Pathos, and Entertainment.- Digital Conservation of Cultural Assets.- Automatic Knowledge Acquisition from Historical Document Archives: Historiographical Perspective.- Culture and Computing in Regional Communities.- Virtual Kyoto Project: Digital Diorama of the Past, Present, and Future of the Historical City of Kyoto.- A Platform for Mining and Visualizing Regional Collective Culture.- A Web Strategy for Cultural Inheritance Centered on Agriculture Case Study Approach: The Olive Project in Shodoshima Japan.- Area Informatics – Concept and Status –.