This paper reports an early result of an evaluation experiment of emotionally expressive characters for intercultural communication. The experiment was conducted as a series of discussions on a multilingual BBS with expressive characters between China and Japan. The result shows some characters and facial expressions used in the experiment were interpreted completely differently and used for di...

Intercultural Challenges in Networked Learning: Hard Technologies Meet Soft Skills by Mackie Chase, Leah Macfadyen, Kenneth Reeder and Jörg Roche This paper gives an account of themes that emerged from a preliminary analysis of a large corpus of electronic communications in an online, mediated course for intercultural learners. The goals were to test assumptions that electronic communication is...

Citizenship as status implies the acknowledgment of individual rights as well as social ones. This very acceptance requires the consideration of all citizens as equal despite any personal difference and it represents an aim that is mostly dependent on the mass-media social function. The formal acknowledgment of the citizenship would be scarcely important if identity stereotypes and prejudice-ba...

Effective selection procedures constitute an important factor in increasing expatriate success. However, research lacks findings regarding which skills to screen in international selection processes and whether to base expatriate selection on a culture-specific or culture-general skill profile. In an attempt to gather such evidence, an empirical study was conducted in the United States and Germ...

Intercultural Challenges in Networked Learning: Hard Technologies Meet Soft Skills by Mackie Chase, Leah Macfadyen, Kenneth Reeder and Jörg Roche This paper gives an account of themes that emerged from a preliminary analysis of a large corpus of electronic communications in an online, mediated course for intercultural learners. The goals were to test assumptions that electronic communication is...

This paper is about only one of the many aspects that affect communication: culture. I will try to show that people from different cultures differ considerably in their view of the forms and means of communication that are appropriate in a certain context and situation. Furthermore I will show that if people involved in intercultural communication reckon with those differences in communication,...

background: one of the essential aspects of the provision of care is cultural issues. cultural sensitivity is the key for cultural care. the aim of this study was to explore culturally sensitive care in pediatric nursing care in iran.materials and methods: this study was a conventional content analysis. participants were consisted of 25 nurses and 9 parents selected through purposive sampling f...

The paper discusses the differences between intracultural communication and intercultural communication froma socio-cognitive perspective that treats this relationship as a continuum rather than a dichotomy.Movement on the continuum, anddifferences between the two phenomena are affected by different factors that will be discussed in the paper. The hypothetical left end of the continuum is intra...

This report describes the Simulation Experience Design Method and it’s applicability toward designing intercultural agents. The Simulation Experience Design Method creates engaging multiplayer, multicultural learning experiences by focusing on how dynamic game content, roles, scenarios, and assessment feedback contribute to an emergent communication culture that is both equitable and inclusive....