Andrew Smith, Lizette Reitsma, E. V. D. Hoven, P. Kotzé, L. Coetzee
{"title":"Towards Preserving Indigenous Oral Stories Using Tangible Objects","authors":"Andrew Smith, Lizette Reitsma, E. V. D. Hoven, P. Kotzé, L. Coetzee","doi":"10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.24","url":null,"abstract":"Handcrafted beadwork produced by the BaNtwane people of South Africa is loaded with meaning. Communicating indigenous oral stories is important for passing on culture-specific traditions and community memory, such as the meaning of the handcrafted beadwork. Oral stories are told within the physical confines of the community. The community we focus on in this paper suffers from younger generations moving away physically, start preferring the English language over their mother tongue and digital over oral communication, and therefore this co-located storytelling process is interrupted. As part of the Story Beads project we have created an interactive system that incorporates a combination of physical objects and modern technology for recording and replaying oral stories that can help preserve the meaning of the handcrafted beadwork of the BaNtwane people.","PeriodicalId":245465,"journal":{"name":"2011 Second International Conference on Culture and Computing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123634039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Culture as Similarities and Dynamics: Suggesting Reinterpretations of Geert Hofstede's Work","authors":"Anette Löfström","doi":"10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.36","url":null,"abstract":"this poster is explorative and it suggests searches for cross-cultural similarities in order to enhance successful interactions and understandings. It is argued that Geert Hofstede's work can be fruitful to put in to play in qualitative cultural research, and that culture shall be viewed as dynamic.","PeriodicalId":245465,"journal":{"name":"2011 Second International Conference on Culture and Computing","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124140007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Kenderdine, Lewis R. Lancaster, Howie Lan, Tobias Gremmler
{"title":"Omnidirectional 3D Visualization for the Analysis of a Large-Scale Corpus: Tripitaka Koreana","authors":"S. Kenderdine, Lewis R. Lancaster, Howie Lan, Tobias Gremmler","doi":"10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.14","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the research and development of a new omni spatial visualization framework for the collaborative interrogation of the world's largest Buddhist textual canon, using the worlds' first panoramic stereoscopic visualization environment - the Advanced Visualization and Interaction Environment (AVIE). The work is being undertaken at a new research facility, The Applied Laboratory for Interactive Visualization and Embodiment (ALiVE), City University of Hong Kong. The dataset used is the Chinese Buddhist Canon, Koryo version (Tripitaka Korean a) in classical Chinese, the with 52 million glyphs carved on 83,000 printing blocks in 13th century Korea. The digitized version of this Canon (a project led by University of California Berkeley) contains metadata that links to geospatial positions, contextual images of locations referenced in the text, and to the original rubbings of the wooden blocks. Each character has been abstracted to a 'blue dot' to enable rapid search and pattern visualization. Omni spatial refers to the ability to distribute this data in 360-degrees around the user where the virtually presented visual space is in three dimensions (3D). The project's omni directional interactive techniques for corpora representation and interrogation offer a unique framework for enhanced cognition and perception in the analysis of this dataset.","PeriodicalId":245465,"journal":{"name":"2011 Second International Conference on Culture and Computing","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123328207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Three Phases of Life: An Inter-cultural Perspective","authors":"G.W.M. Rauterberg","doi":"10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.23","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new direction of research in entertainment computing. The problem addressed is drawing on results from different disciplines: anthropology, sociology, design, and engineering sciences. Starting with the three divine concepts in Hinduism (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) each individual human life on earth can be divided into three main phases: (1) childhood, (2) adolescence, and (3) retirement. Each of these phases is specified and characterized by the following main motive complexes: (1) love, (2) power and (3) death. In the Greek mythology the trilogy of Oedipus introduced and discussed already these relationships. In the last century three main psycho-analytical schools concentrate on each of these primary motive complexes: (1) S. Freud on love/libido, (2) A. Adler on power and autonomy, and (3) C.G. Jung on death and transcendence. This paper describes these relationships and discusses the possible contributions of entertainment technology (i.e. Life Action Role Playing) in supporting the two main transitions in each human life between these three phases. Hence cultural computing is based on a form of cultural translation that uses scientific methods to capture and represent essential aspects of a particular culture to support cultural development.","PeriodicalId":245465,"journal":{"name":"2011 Second International Conference on Culture and Computing","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129927541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Term Extraction from Japanese Ancient Writings Using Probability of Character N-grams","authors":"Fuminori Kimura, Mamoru Yoshimura, Akira Maeda","doi":"10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.56","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, there are no tools available to separate ancient Japanese sentence into words. Therefore, it is difficult to extract archaic Japanese terms from Japanese ancient writings. In this paper, we propose a method of term extraction for ancient Japanese documents. We calculate the likelihood of character n-grams to be a word, and extract character n-grams with higher likelihood as archaic Japanese terms. We conducted experiments of term separation using the term likelihood by the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":245465,"journal":{"name":"2011 Second International Conference on Culture and Computing","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121072096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Event Oriented Data Management Method for Displaying Genealogy with a New Function for Direct Descent Family Lines","authors":"Seiji Sugiyama, Atsushi Ikuta, Miyuki Shibata, Tohru Matsuura","doi":"10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.38","url":null,"abstract":"A lot of existing genealogy display software cannot perfectly display complex relations, including historical science and ethnology. Therefore, we have constructed a new software so that it can. Our software uses an event oriented data management method, the \"White Base\" (Widespread Hands to Interconnect Basic Elements). It is a hidden node for integrating the relations, including a married couple and their children. Using the White Base, the number of references is less than the existing data structure, and complex multiple marriages with segment intersections can be displayed perfectly. This method, however, cannot manage some different line styles of the family trees. To cope with this difficulty, a new function is installed on the previous software. As a result, normal family trees and \"Direct Descent Family Lines\", can be switched automatically and seamlessly without changing the White Base model. Our improved prototype software that can show the effectiveness of our research is presented.","PeriodicalId":245465,"journal":{"name":"2011 Second International Conference on Culture and Computing","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121157910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alejandro Toledo, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, R. Thawonmas, F. Rinaldo
{"title":"Visual Recommendations from Japanese Historical Diary","authors":"Alejandro Toledo, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, R. Thawonmas, F. Rinaldo","doi":"10.1109/CULTURE-COMPUTING.2011.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CULTURE-COMPUTING.2011.60","url":null,"abstract":"Hyohanki (or Heihanki) is a historical diary written by a Japanese aristocrat, Taira no Nobunori, during the late Heian era (1132-1184). This diary is well known as a relevant resource for the Japanese research culture of that time period. Although some parts of Hyohanki have deteriorated and some are missing, all remaining pages are digitized into text format, awaiting digital humanities research activities. In this paper, we present a stacked graph visualization as applied to a collection of personal names extracted from the Hyohanki diary. Our system is endowed with a novel recommender engine which allows the system to reveal views from the Hyohanki-name, which potentially represent indicators of name occurrence trends. Our system reveals views using a method based on dwell time as implicit interest indicator. These revealed views might serve users' needs in their analytical tasks.","PeriodicalId":245465,"journal":{"name":"2011 Second International Conference on Culture and Computing","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116477623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machine Translation Effect on Communication: What Makes It Difficult to Communicate through Machine Translation?","authors":"Mika Yasuoka, Pernille Bjørn","doi":"10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.28","url":null,"abstract":"Intercultural collaboration facilitated by machine translation has gradually spread in various settings. Still, little is known as for the practice of machine-translation mediated communication. This paper investigates how machine translation affects intercultural communication in practice. Based on communication in which multilingual communication system is applied, we identify four communication types and its' influences on stakeholders' communication process, especially focusing on establishment and maintenance of common ground. Different from our expectation that quality of machine translation results determines communication process largely, our data indicates communication relies more on a dynamic process where participants establish common ground than on reproducibility and grammatical accuracy.","PeriodicalId":245465,"journal":{"name":"2011 Second International Conference on Culture and Computing","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114963522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alignment of Remote Cultures: In Contrast to the Relevance Theory of Communication","authors":"Fumiko Kano Glückstad","doi":"10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.13","url":null,"abstract":"As the role of ontology in a multilingual setting becomes important to Semantic Web development, it becomes necessary to understand and model how an original conceptual meaning of a Source Language word is conveyed into a Target Language translation. Terminological ontology [1] is a tool used for knowledge sharing and domain-specific translation, and could potentially be suitable for simulating the cognitive models explaining real-world inter-cultural communication scenarios. In this paper, a framework referred to as the Relevance Theory of Communication [2] is contrasted to an empirical study applying Tversky´s contrast model [3] to data-sets obtained from the terminological ontology. The results indicate that the alignment of two language-dependent terminological ontologies is a potential method for optimizing the relevance required in inter-cultural communication, in other words, for identifying corresponding concepts existing in two remote cultures.","PeriodicalId":245465,"journal":{"name":"2011 Second International Conference on Culture and Computing","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115486565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan-Luis Suárez, Fernando Sancho-Caparrini, Javier de la Rosa Pérez
{"title":"The Art-Space of a Global Community: The Network of Baroque Paintings in Hispanic-America","authors":"Juan-Luis Suárez, Fernando Sancho-Caparrini, Javier de la Rosa Pérez","doi":"10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.17","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of a multidisciplinary collaboration in Digital Humanities that focuses on the multi-scale analysis of the network of Baroque paintings in the territories of the Hispanic Monarchy from the 16th through the 18th centuries. We apply graph analysis and visualizations as well as natural language analysis over a database of over 11,000 artworks in order to address three types of questions related, respectively, to the formation and sustainability of large cultures, the semantic content of the network we analyze, and the role of art as an institution that contributes to sustain large-scale socities. The results also help to design a methodology that can be exported to other projects in Digital Humanities.","PeriodicalId":245465,"journal":{"name":"2011 Second International Conference on Culture and Computing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124257881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}