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- research-articleAugust 2024
Using artificial intelligence to analyze and classify music emotion
Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JOCMSE), Volume 24, Issue 4-5Pages 2611–2628https://doi.org/10.3233/JCM-247488With the rapid development of music digitization and online streaming services, automatic analysis and classification of music content has become an urgent need. This research focuses on music sentiment analysis, which is the identification and ...
- research-articleApril 2023
Language on Reddit Reveals Differential Mental Health Markers for Individuals posting in Immigration Communities
WebSci '23: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023Pages 153–162https://doi.org/10.1145/3578503.3583600The experience of immigrating to a foreign land is associated with exposure to new cultures, changes in social networks, and challenges to prevalent systems of meaning. A body of literature has shown that the immigration experience, while pursued with ...
- research-articleOctober 2020
Studying Politeness across Cultures using English Twitter and Mandarin Weibo
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 4, Issue CSCW2Article No.: 119, Pages 1–15https://doi.org/10.1145/3415190Modeling politeness across cultures helps to improve intercultural communication by uncovering what is considered appropriate and polite. We study the linguistic features associated with politeness across American English and Mandarin Chinese. First, we ...
- research-articleSeptember 2018
Challenges of the Change of Decentralized Support Structures in Combination with Digitization Processes in the Student Life Cycle. RWTHonline the New Campus Management System of RWTH Aachen University
SIGUCCS '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGUCCS Annual ConferencePages 91–97https://doi.org/10.1145/3235715.3235719The European Bologna Process, as well as a digital revolution in teaching worldwide, has prompted RWTH Aachen University (RWTH) to switch to a new campus management system (CMS) that all students (over 44,500) and most of the approximately 9,200 ...
- research-articleJuly 2018
Susceptibility to Persuasive Strategies: A Comparative Analysis of Nigerians vs. Canadians
UMAP '18: Proceedings of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and PersonalizationPages 229–238https://doi.org/10.1145/3209219.3209239Personalizing persuasive technologies (PTs) is one of the hallmarks of a successful PT intervention. However, there is a lack of understanding of how Africans and North Americans differ or are similar in the susceptibility to persuasive strategies. To ...
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- research-articleSeptember 2016
Learning from the ubiquitous language: an empirical analysis of emoji usage of smartphone users
UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous ComputingPages 770–780https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971724Emojis have been widely used to simplify emotional expression and enrich user experience. As an interesting practice of ubiquitous computing, emojis are adopted by Internet users from many different countries, on many devices (particularly popular on ...
- articleFebruary 2016
A cross-cultural study of the effect of a graph-oriented computer-assisted project-based learning environment on middle school students' science knowledge and argumentation skills
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JOCAL), Volume 32, Issue 1Pages 51–76https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12118The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore how seventh graders in a suburban school in the United States and sixth graders in an urban school in Taiwan developed argumentation skills and science knowledge in a project-based learning ...
- research-articleJanuary 2016
Participatory Cultural Mapping Based on Collective Behavior Data in Location-Based Social Networks
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Volume 7, Issue 3Article No.: 30, Pages 1–23https://doi.org/10.1145/2814575Culture has been recognized as a driving impetus for human development. It co-evolves with both human belief and behavior. When studying culture, Cultural Mapping is a crucial tool to visualize different aspects of culture (e.g., religions and languages)...
- articleMarch 2015
Cultural differences and collective action: A social network perspective
This study investigates how cultural differences on the individualism-collectivism I-C dimension of social networks influence the outcomes of collective action. Evidence shows that I-C values are indicators of how people construct their social networks ...
- short-paperOctober 2010
EcoIsland: a persuasive application to motivate sustainable behavior in collectivist cultures
NordiCHI '10: Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending BoundariesPages 703–706https://doi.org/10.1145/1868914.1869009Until now, many kinds of persuasive applications have been developed, and most of which are used by individuals for personal benefits, example includes better healthcare, better lifestyle, etc. However, one application area that is yet to be explored ...
- posterAugust 2010
Intercultural human-photo encounters: how cultural similarity affects perceiving and tagging photographs
ICIC '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaborationPages 203–206https://doi.org/10.1145/1841853.1841887The increasing popularity of online photo sharing makes encountering photos from other cultures an increasingly common event online. We present an online study investigating how photos' cultural origins interact with people's cultural backgrounds to ...
- posterAugust 2010
Translating politeness across cultures: case of Hindi and English
ICIC '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaborationPages 175–178https://doi.org/10.1145/1841853.1841880In this paper, we present a corpus based study of politeness across two languages-English and Hindi. It studies the politeness in a translated parallel corpus of Hindi and English and sees how politeness in a Hindi text is translated into English. We ...
- research-articleApril 2010
Cultural difference in image tagging
CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 981–984https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753472Do people from different cultures tag digital images differently? The current study compared the content of tags for digital images created by two cultural groups: European Americans and Chinese. In line with previous findings on cultural differences in ...
- posterFebruary 2010
Toward a cultural-sensitive image tagging interface
IUI '10: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfacesPages 313–316https://doi.org/10.1145/1719970.1720019Do people from different cultures tag digital images differently? The current study examined the relationship between the position and content of tags for digital images created by participants from two cultural groups (European Americans and Chinese). ...
- chapterApril 2009
Towards Culturally-Situated Agent Which Can Detect Cultural Differences
Agent Computing and Multi-Agent SystemsApril 2009, Pages 458–463https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01639-4_47A method to calculate the semantic dissimilarity in two countries' pictogram interpretations is proposed. Two countries' pictogram interpretation words are mapped to SUMO classes via WordNet2SUMO. Appropriate concept weights are assigned to SUMO classes ...
- articleJuly 2008
Good computing systems for everyone-how on earth? Cultural aspects
Behaviour & Information Technology (BEIT), Volume 27, Issue 4Pages 287–292https://doi.org/10.1080/01449290701761250People with different cultural backgrounds think and behave differently. Different cultural characteristics of users of computing systems become significant issues. Studies on cultural differences from various perspectives such as cultural dimensions, ...
- research-articleSeptember 2007
Culturally adapted mobile phone interface design: correlation between categorization style and menu structure
MobileHCI '07: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and servicesPages 379–382https://doi.org/10.1145/1377999.1378041This paper presents the results of experiments conducted to understand the correlation between culturally different cognitive styles and issues of information architecture and flow, specifically in a mobile phone interface. 30 Korean participants and 30 ...
- ArticleJuly 2007
Correlation between cognitive style and structure and flow in mobile phone interface: comparing performance and preference of Korean and dutch users
UI-HCII'07: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Usability and internationalizationPages 531–540This paper presents experiments conducted to determine the correlation between culturally different cognitive styles and issues of information architecture and flow, specifically in mobile phone interface. Korean and Dutch participants participated in ...
- ArticleJuly 2007
Designing "Culture" into modern product: a case study of cultural product design
UI-HCII'07: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Usability and internationalizationPages 146–153"Culture" plays an important role in the design field, and "cross cultural design" will be a key design evaluation point in the future. Designing "culture" into modern product will be a design trend in the global market. Obviously, we need a better ...
- ArticleJuly 2007
Cultural difference and its effects on user research methodologies
UI-HCII'07: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Usability and internationalizationPages 122–129Various researches have proved that cultural differences affect the process and results of user research, emphasizing that should cultural attention be given in order to obtain sufficient results. After performing three experiment methods: probe, ...