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IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Cross-Cultural Study of Avatars' Facial Expressions and Design Considerations Within Asian Countries
Avatars are increasingly used to express our emotions in our online communications. Such avatars are used based on the assumption that avatar expressions are interpreted universall...
Tomoko Koda
IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Culturally-Situated Pictogram Retrieval
Abstract. This paper studies the patterns of cultural differences observed in pictogram interpretation. We conducted a 14-month online survey in the U.S. and Japan to ask the mean...
Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Naomi Yamashita, Rieko I...
IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Culture and Computers: A Review of the Concept of Culture and Implications for Intercultural Collaborative Online Learning
Our research is aimed at a systematic investigation of phenomena in the nexus of culture, technology and learning. The basic premise of our research is that social affordances of t...
Ravikiran Vatrapu, Daniel D. Suthers
IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Aligned Parallel Corpora in Multilingual Studies and Applications
Parallel corpora encode extremely valuable linguistic knowledge, the revealing of which is facilitated by the recent advances in multilingual corpus linguistics. The linguistic dec...
Dan Tufis
IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Social Conventions and Issues of Space for Distributed Collaboration
We followed the work of an international research network that holds regular meetings in technology-enhanced environments. The team is geographically distributed and to support its...
Hillevi Sundholm
IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Collaborative Platform for Multilingual Resource Development and Intercultural Communication
The Internet has already connected people and established a mature online community. The use of WWW is also in the main stream of disseminating one’s information and services. In...
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, K...
IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Multilingual Communication Support Using the Language Grid
Our proposed “Language Grid” infrastructure supports multilingual communication by combining in new way language resources, such as machine translators, morphological analyzers...
Rieko Inaba, Yohei Murakami, Akiyo Nadamoto, Toru ...
IWIC
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Hanzi Grid
Abstract. The long-term historical development and broad geographical variation of Chinese character (Hanzi/Kanji) has made it a crosscultural information sharing platform in East ...
Ya-Min Chou, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Chu-Ren Huang