PROMOTING INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE THROUGH A CORNERSTONE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT

Blogging: Promoting Learner Autonomy and Intercultural Competence through Study Abroad

Lina Lee University of New Hampshire The current study explores closely how using a combined modalities of asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) via blogs and face-to-face (FTF) interaction through ethnographic interviews with native speakers (L1s) supports autonomous learning as the result of reflective and social processes. The study involves 16 American undergraduate students wh...

Intercultural Connectivity: Intertwined through Islamic Design

This paper is a critical inquiry examining the works of an art exhibit, Geometric Aljamia: A Cultural Transliteration, hosted during Kennesaw State University’s Year of the Arabian Peninsula. It includes a brief interdisciplinary discussion of the importance of geometry to the development of Islamic art and design. The contemporary artists who produced these works under study integrate drawing ...

Lessons from Intercultural Project Management for the Intercultural HCI Design Process

Global competition requires that new technical products are launched at the same time in all relevant global markets. Therefore the Human Computer Interface (HCI) product designers need to know all requirements of all global customer groups before starting the global development process of user interfaces (UI), which takes normally place in dispersed intercultural mixed UI designer teams. There...

Promoting Scholarship through Design

How can new media positively transform scholarly practices? One possible way is for scholarly archives such as e-journals and digital libraries to better support the needs and practices of their users, instead of the publishing process. This paper examines what it might mean to promote cognitive and social aspects of ‘scholarship’ through innovative archive design. Design requirements for suppo...

Supporting Engineering Design Communication through a Social Media Tool – Insights for Engineering Project Management