today, the tourism industry is of a special significance; during the past 50 years , this industry has turned into one of the major actors in the field of international trade as well as providing significant resources for income in most of the developed and developing countries. any country defines an appropriate policy in order to attract foreign tourists. policy making in the field of tourism...

Contrary to Smger’s contentlon that the features of depressive dtsorders do not exhlblt slgmficant cross-cultural differences the author uses material from field research m Tatwan and data from recent anthropologlcal and chrucal mvesttgatlons to support the opposite view that such differences extst and are a function of the cultural shaping of normattve and devtant behavior Somatlzatlon amongst...

This paper presents a new direction of research in user experiences and cognitive science. The problem addressed is drawing on results from different disciplines: psychology, brain and cognitive sciences, physics, and interaction design. As main objective we plan the empirical validation of the claim: Cultural computing as enabling technology for social transformations. Cultural computing is ba...

ANDASA is a knowledge management platform for the capitalization of knowledge and cultural assets for the artistic and cultural sectors. It was built based on the priorities expressed by the participating artists. Through mapping artistic activities and specificities, it enables to highlight various aspects of the artistic research and production. Such instrument will contribute to create netwo...

This article provides a review of how cultural contexts shape and are shaped by psychological and neurobiological processes. We propose a framework that aims to culturally contextualize behavioral, genetic, neural, and physiological processes. Empirical evidence is presented to offer concrete examples of how neurobiological processes underlie social behaviors, and how these components are inter...

The cultural diversity of users of technology challenges our methods for usability evaluation. In this paper we report on a multi-site, cross-cultural grounded theory field study of think aloud testing in seven companies in three countries (Denmark, China and India). The theoretical model that emerges from the data suggests that the production of a usability problem list is multi-causal and sub...

“Talk Show Conference” as a media platform, the content of expression and China’s contemporary reality young people’s life close. The program meets cognitive logic emotional needs generation with kind power full intellectual style, builds new feeling structure, uses deconstructive to achieve positive energy empowerment. also forms micro field, maintenance “offensive” characteristics talk shows ...