Games for Cross-Cultural Training

Developing Believable Interactive Cultural Characters for Cross-Cultural Training

One path to training for cross-cultural competency is through immersion in a target culture, but real immersion can be expensive. Virtual immersion may be a viable alternative, but only if the experience is realistic and compelling enough. The characters in the virtual environment must embody the behaviors of the people in that culture in a way that is realistic and believable to facilitate tra...

Cross - Cultural Training a Review

ROGRAMS designed for preparing people for living in another culture are usually referred to as “Cross-Cultural or Intercultural Orientation Programs.” It seems that the early practitioners and researchers viewed preparing people for international assignment as a process in which one needed to be oriented to the differences in social interactions between the two cultures. It is no surprise that ...

Cross-Cultural Training in Business Chinese

Cross-Cultural Training: Bridging Japan and Sweden

Cross-cultural Nonverbal Cue Immersive Training

When US soldiers are deployed to Iraq, their interactions with the local population are impacted by their understanding of complex cultural differences. Nonverbal cues play a major role in cross-cultural communication, as they vary among cultures by many culture-specific rules that govern certain aspects of behavior (Taylor, 2006). This study was intended to be an initial attempt to discover th...