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.

Research exploring the cultural influence on information system development (ISD) projects tends to focus a single level of (e.g., organizational culture) or incompatibility between one two levels that are assumed be discretely separate and static national culture). In contrast, our research conceptualizes culture as dynamic emergent, with varying overlapping cultures occur simultaneously in IS...

This thesis explores some of the social factors that may affect individuals as they age. A lifespan developmental perspective is employed in investigating the effects of societal aging stereotypes on will-to-live and risk-taking skills. Results suggest negative aging stereotypes may have deleterious effects on the elderly, but not young individuals in terms of will-to-live, but have no effect o...

We present a case study outlining development efforts towards an interface ecology to be deployed in museums. We argue that the problem at hand calls for a highly interdisciplinary design process. Furthermore, system design in the domain of cultural education poses a unique set of challenges. At the same time few existing design methodologies are suitable for addressing this special environment...

The complexity and variability of human culture is unmatched by any other species. Humans live in culturally constructed niches filled with artifacts, skills, beliefs, and practices that have been inherited, accumulated, and modified over generations. A causal account of the complexity of human culture must explain its distinguishing characteristics: It is cumulative and highly variable within ...

The deficiency of our present education in moulding the future generation to develop a social and natural out look is discussed in this paper. Also the author lighlights here the significance Adhyatma forms of teaching and cultural evolution takes place to that effect.