A Position Paper Submission to the W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web

Culture dependent behaviour affects relations between groups and individuals. During the last decades there has been a dramatic increase in the importance of cross-cultural meetings and negotiations. The objective of our project is to design and implement a system that provides cross-cultural knowledge via mobile devices for people in international business meetings or in international research project meetings. For example, meeting rooms within companies can be regarded as interactive spaces and as being context-sensitive areas. By integrating ubiquitous computing, Semantic Web, RFID technology, context-aware computing and XML Topic Maps we can construct a crosscultural interactive space that will help people to better understand and adjust to cultural differences that may occur during the meeting. The research interests of the author are related to research on context awareness and application mobility for Web-based applications. The main focus is to explore and develop human centered Web technologies and to support human activities with these technologies.