Context Meets Culture

摘要

Culture is embodied in how people interact with other individuals and with their environment. It is a way of life formed under specific historical, natural and social conditions. Cross-cultural communication consists of human-to-human, human-to-machine, and human-to-environment communication in cross-cultural environments. The environment can be physical, virtual or hybrid. In our research, context is defined as a situation a user has at hand. Cross-cultural communication environment - user - situation is the key triplet in our context research. We introduce a context model for cross-cultural communication environments, and we give two examples of how we have applied it to the design of cross-cultural environments. Our case cultures are those of Japan and Finland.