In addition to words and grammar, socio-cultural knowledge is also of vital importance in the interpretation of conversations. Socio-cultural knowledge helps participants to get contextualization cues and together with other signaling channels, participants will be able to perceive the context-bound information and prepare their appropriate responses. Socio-cultural knowledge is indispensable i...

Introducing requirements engineering appears to involve a cultural change in organizations. Such a cultural change requires that requirements are defined and managed systematically, not only from a technical point of view, but also from the customers’ and users’ points of view. This paper describes experiences gained from four Finnish organizations that have started to introduce requirements en...

This chapter analyses how cultural heritage destinations should evolve to keep pace with changes in the demand for cultural tourism. The empirical evidence shows that the most important heritage destinations suffer from a misalignment of their value propositions with respect to the new needs of cultural tourists. These types of gaps can be filled only by understanding the features and evolution...

Indian This paper will study on tourist's behavior base on their culture. The author proposes to study the influence of cultural characteristic on Thailand inbound international tourist behavior in order to understand the cultural differences among international visitors and culture value by focusing on three different countries, include with German, China and India which all countries have a s...

The past 2 decades have witnessed a sharp increase in the global migration of health care providers, along with an increasingly diverse patient population. Since culture fundamentally influences all healthrelated behaviors, an understanding of patient perspectives, values, beliefs, and approaches to health and well-being is critical to ensuring the best possible health outcomes. In addition, pr...

This paper describes a method to obtain quantitatively discriminating cultural interaction indicators and their values for cross-cultural Human Computer Interaction (HCI) design as preparatory work for cross-cultural adaptive navigation and multi-media systems. The method has been implemented in a tool for cross-cultural HCI analysis. Two online studies temporally displaced by one year using th...