Computer game development is a rapidly growing global business. However, research in the understanding of the global user is lacking. This paper presents a survey of recent research on cross cultural game development. The paper proposes a cross cultural hybrid model to carry out user modeling to assist developers in understanding the cultural nuances of end users.

Cultural competency is an essential skill for family physicians because of increasing ethnic diversity among patient populations. Culture, the shared beliefs and attitudes of a group, shapes ideas of what constitutes illness and acceptable treatment. A cross-cultural interview should elicit the patient's perception of the illness and any alternative therapies he or she is undergoing as well as ...

There has been much debate about the types of leaders needed in tomorrow’s schools and about the optimal forms of leadership preparation. This study examined the applicability of the Boundary-Breaking Leadership Development Model to a cross-cultural travel study programme for Canadian and New Zealand graduate students in educational leadership programmes at two universities. The Canada–New Zeal...

Conflict is competition by groups or individuals over incompatible goals, scarce resources, or the sources of power needed to acquire them. This competition is also determined by individuals’ perceptions of goals, resources, and power, and such perceptions may differ greatly among individuals. One determinant of perception is culture, the socially inherited, shared and learned ways of living po...

Pragmatics deals with language use in the context that relates to speech acts' meaning. Politeness strategies and politeness principles, as manifestation of pragmatics, are two determining communication factors both speaker hearer. This qualitative study was intended analyze used by main character Mulan her family. The data were collected using observation checklist adapted from Brown Levinson ...

This article deals with discourses of littering prohibition signs found in various places Indonesia, focusing on three main issues, i.e., discourse structures, pragmatic strategies, and sociocultural factors which might influence that structure strategy. Using data collected from websites those Yogyakarta Special Regency, a socio-pragmatics approach, the research finds are constructed by kinds ...

Introduction Cross-cultural psychology is a broad term for the scientific study of human behavior and mental or cognitive processes among cultures. In general, this field addresses similarities and differences among cultures. According to the American social psychologists Richard Nisbett and Ara Norenzayan, the view that there are differences between cultures (at least for cognitive processes) ...