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HCI
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Culturally Adaptive Software: Moving Beyond Internationalization
So far, culture has played a minor role in the design of software. Our experience with imbuto, a program designed for Rwandan agricultural advisors, has shown that cultural adaptat...
Katharina Reinecke, Abraham Bernstein
WSC
2008
15 years 2 days ago
Simulating culture: An experiment using a multi-user virtual environment
With increased levels of global trade, foreign policy making, foreign travel, and distance collaboration using the Internet, the issue of culture takes center stage. One needs to ...
Paul A. Fishwick, Julie Henderson, Elinore Fresh, ...
AAMAS
2002
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Situated Cognition and the Role of Multi-agent Models in Explaining Language Structure
Abstract. How and where are the universal features of language specified? We consider language users as situated agents acting as conduits for the cultural transmission of language...
Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
EUROMED
2010
14 years 8 months ago
Modeling Procedural Knowledge: A Generative Modeler for Cultural Heritage
Within the last few years generative modeling techniques have gained attention especially in the context of cultural heritage. As a generative model describes a rather ideal object...
Christoph Schinko, Martin Strobl, Torsten Ullrich,...
SOCIALCOM
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Traffic in Social Media II: Modeling Bursty Popularity
Online popularity has enormous impact on opinions, culture, policy, and profits, especially with the advent of the social Web and Web advertising. Yet the processes that drive popu...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Filippo Menczer, Santo Fortunato...