Profiling atheist world views in different cultural contexts: Developmental trajectories and accounts.

Symbolic Power in Cultural Contexts SYMBOLIC POWER IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

Interventions and Cultural Contexts

Contexts on Trajectories

We introduce and investigate a new way of generating mildly context-sensitive languages. The main idea is that the contexts are adjoined by shu ing them on certain trajectories. In this way we obtain also a very general class of contextual grammars such that most of the fundamental classes of contextual grammars, for instance, internal contextual grammars, external contextual grammars, n-contex...

User Engagement Study with Virtual Agents Under Different Cultural Contexts

Human communication literature states that people with different culture backgrounds act differently in conversations. Currently most virtual agents are designed for a single targeted popular culture. We implemented two versions of a virtual agent targeting American and Chinese cultures. We found that users from different culture context express engagement differently.

Different approaches and cultural considerations in third world prosthetics.

The major objective of prosthetics the world over is the same, i.e. to restore the amputee to as functional a capacity as possible in his cultural environment, whilst attaining as good a cosmetic result as can be achieved. At first glance it would seem that this would mean there would be very little difference in approach to the subject in western and in third world countries. Availability of m...