Within-nation cultural variation across regions provides a largely untapped resource for examining crosscultural relations usually studied at the international level. The current study examines the relations of collectivism, helping behavior with strangers, and pace of life across regions of the United States. The study shows that within-nation cultural variation can be used both to (a) cross-v...

Hofstede (1980) brought forth four cultural dimensions that became the most popular references in crosscultural studies later. These are individualism/ collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity/femininity. Later, he added a fifth dimension, the long term orientation in his thesis (Hofstede 2001). Research on organizational culture and its implication on human resource...

Categories, as mental structures, are more than simply sums of property frequencies. A number of recent studies have supported the view that the properties of categories may be organised along functional lines and possibly dependency structures more generally. The study presented here investigates whether earlier findings reflect something unique in the English language/ North American culture ...

This paper presents an ongoing multi-disciplinary research-and development project in which we are exploring emerging methods and practices for participatory design of tools and content of accessibility information in India and Sweden, based on user created content. The initial development of the AUGMENT-Project also includes the production of a prototype for sharing information. The joint set ...

Yun Jiang Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China Culture influences many aspects of the design and use of computer systems; understanding better this influence on their own thinking may benefit usability professionals who do cross-cultural usability work. Using Kelly’s notion of personal constructs, we focus on one mediator of culture: how individuals interpret the ...

Culture dependent behaviour affects relations between groups and individuals. During the last decades there has been a dramatic increase in the importance of cross-cultural meetings and negotiations. The objective of our project is to design and implement a system that provides cross-cultural knowledge via mobile devices for people in international business meetings or in international research...

We appreciate the letter by Saxena et al.1 as well as the extensive contribution they have made to global mental health. With regard to the methodology of our evaluation, we briefly described each domain and, for the purpose of crosscultural comparison, demonstrated how the WHO-AIMS (Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems) may be applied to very different societies: Iraq, Japan, the Ph...

Past studies have clearly showed the negative impact of neglect and abuse on child development at both the psychological and neurobiological levels. To date, many studies have focused on identifying risk and protective factors occurring at all levels of the ecology. However, more distal-level variables, such as culture and ethnicity, have not been studied as much as those of more proximal level...

We present intra-, interand cross-cultural classifications of vocal expressions. Stimuli were selected from the VENEC corpus and consisted of portrayals of 11 emotions, each expressed with 3 levels of intensity. Classification (nu-SVM) was based on acoustic measures related to pitch, intensity, formants, voice source and duration. Results showed that mean recall across emotions was around 2.4-3...

● Cultural diversity in corporate e-learning ● Internationalization and localization of course content ● Cultural studies, information society and digital culture ● Cultural technology and info-communication industry ● Cultural economics, cross-cultural marketing and crosscultural communication in corporate e-learning ● Trends and best practices in global corporate e-learning ● The role of visu...