Erratum: Old faces, new places: equity theory in cross-cultural contexts

Rural Poverty: Old Challenges in New Contexts

Poverty is still a predominantly rural phenomenon. However, the context of rural poverty has been changing across the world, with high growth in some economies and stagnation in others. Furthermore, increased openness in many economies has affected the specific role of agricultural growth for rural poverty reduction. This paper revisits an ‘old’ question: how does growth and poverty reduction c...

Symbolic Power in Cultural Contexts SYMBOLIC POWER IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

Psychological debriefing in cross-cultural contexts: ten implications for practice.

Crisis interventions following exposure to traumatic events have become common in most western and in some non-western countries. The literature regarding early interventions, specifically the use of Psychological Debriefing (PD), is grounded in a western context. Little has been written of its use in different cultural settings. This article focuses on the use of PD in different cultural setti...

Preliminary Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Expressiveness in Synthetic Faces

This paper reports the results of a preliminary cross-evaluation experiment run in the framework of the European research project PF-Star1, with the double aim of evaluating the possibility of exchanging FAP data between the involved sites and assessing the adequacy of the emotional facial gestures performed by talking heads. The results provide initial insights in the way people belonging to v...

Changing Places: Contexts of Awareness in Computing

By allowing any social institution to structure activity in any place, wireless information services break down the traditional mapping between institutions and places. This phenomenon greatly complicates the analysis of context for purposes of designing context-aware computing systems. Context has a physical, architectural aspect, but most aspects of context will also be defined in institution...