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Context and User-Centered Approaches: Icons in Cross-Cultural Context

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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 environment, user/actor and task/situation is the key triplet in our context research. In this chapter, context is discussed as a multidimensional concept and icons in cross-cultural environments are introduced. The authors present Kiyoki's semantic associative search method, and introduce an example of applying an icon-based platform for cross-cultural communication with Kiyoki’s method for searching and creating context-dependent cross-cultural information. This cross-cultural communication platform realizes mutual understanding between two cultures by contextual data structuring and computing.

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  1. University of Jyväskylä, Seminaarinkatu 15, Jyväskylä, 40014, Finland

    Anneli Heimbürger

  2. Keio University SFC, 5322 Endo, Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, 252-0882, Japan

    Yasushi Kiyoki

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    Avelino J. Gonzalez

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Heimbürger, A., Kiyoki, Y. (2014). Context and User-Centered Approaches: Icons in Cross-Cultural Context. In: Brézillon, P., Gonzalez, A. (eds) Context in Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1887-4_20

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