In this work, we investigate whether the cultural idiosyncrasies found in humanhuman interaction may be transferred to human-computer interaction. With the aim of designing a culture-sensitive dialogue system, we designed a user study creating a dialogue in a domain that has the potential capacity to reveal cultural differences. The dialogue contains different options for the system output acco...

The formal study of intercultural communication is generally associated with the publication of Edward Hall’s “The Silent Language” in 1959, where the author showed how culture is critical to understanding intercultural communication. After millennia of research, intercultural communication challenges today are global and by that it is meant that intercultural communication is present in every ...

INTRODUCTION Primary care residencies are expected to provide training in cultural competence. However, we have insufficient information about the perceptions of stakeholders actually involved in healthcare (i.e. residents, faculty and patients) regarding commonly encountered cross-cultural barriers and the skills required to overcome them. METHOD This study used a total of 10 focus groups to...

Research indicates ‘‘that as much as one-third of daily conversations include some form of deception, broadly construed to include concealed, evasive, ambiguous, or exaggerated information as well as outright lies’’ (Burgoon Stoner Bonito and Dunbar 2003). As Klein, Tellefsen, and Herskovitz (2006) have noted, there is a growing body of research comparing deception in face-to-face communication...

Human communication systems, such as language, evolve culturally [Chater et al. 2009; Croft 2000]; their components undergo reproduction and variation. However, a role for selection in cultural evolutionary dynamics is less clear. Often neutral evolution (also known as 'drift') models, are used to explain the evolution of human communication systems [Blythe 2012; Nettle 1999; Reali and Griffith...

Is cross-cultural communication and criticism possible? This question is important question, since, if such cross-cultural practice is not possible, then development ethics, which applies ethical reflection to the ends and means of development, could only be used by citizens of a given country to think critically about their own country’s development goals and strategies. By contrast, if cross-...

In global networking the human-computer interface is the crucial communication link between the author and the user. In website design it is important to recognize cultural differences and understand how the design of the computer interface can reflect the culture of a particular audience. Digital storytelling is a design technique that can reflect cultural differences and engage the user. Mode...