This position paper presents the efforts we have undertaken to study the impact of intercultural factors on global software development projects. A bottom-up approach looks at the effect of individual intercultural factors on software practices, while a top-down approach strives to identify positive or negative organizational and behavioral patterns.

In this paper we summarize our first research results in the field of Cross Culture user authentication. We will investigate intercultural aspects of biometrics, both of technical and legal nature. Besides biometric based user authentication, Human-to-Computer interfaces are an important part of our work. We present a methodology for intercultural and multimodal data recording and testing of di...

The "Intercultural Interaction Analysis" tool (IIA tool) was developed to obtain data regarding cultural differences in HCI. The main objective of the IIA tool is to observe and analyze the interaction behavior of users from different cultures with a computer system to determine different interaction patterns according to their cultural background. Culture influences the interaction of the user...

Students seldom think about language unless they are instructed to do so or are made to do so during learning activities. To arouse students’ awareness while learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP), this study formed a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) community to engage teachers and students from different domains and countries in intercultural communication. Participating...

Abstract We present the results of a questionnaire study in Belgium, Burkina Faso and Indonesia focusing on problem just allocation an indivisible good. The formal axioms proposed social choice theory offer attractive framework to structure response patterns. Interindividual differences can be interpreted meaningful way terms basic intuitions about desert, efficiency compensation. Belgian stude...

As android robots become increasingly sophisticated in their technical as well as artistic design, their non-verbal expressiveness is getting closer to that of real humans. Accordingly, this paper presents results of two online surveys designed to evaluate a female android’s facial display of five basic emotions. Being interested in intercultural differences we prepared both surveys in English,...