To benefit from the broad range of perspectives and approaches brought by our increasingly diverse medical learner population, medical educators need to ensure that their efforts are designed to address the predictable complexities that diversity brings. This article considers the role that cultural factors might play in medical learner evaluation by describing how cultural differences can affe...

OBJECTIVE To examine associations between aboriginal enculturation, Canadian acculturation, and alcohol problems among aboriginal university students living in an urban area in Canada. METHODS Data for this mixed methods study were collected through in-person surveys with a convenience sample of aboriginal university students (n = 60) in 2008/2009. RESULTS Students evidenced high levels of ...

Current research refers to videogames as a constant variable. However, games today are designed to be highly interactive and versatile: two players may be using the same videogame, but as a result of different using patterns, the game will not necessarily encompass the same content and gameplay. The current study examined the possible relationship between psychopathology and in-game playing pat...

Zinacantec Maya weaving tools and apprenticeship practices contain an implicit theory of cognitive development that corresponds to Piaget and Inhelder’s explicit theory of cognitive development [The Child’s Conception of Space, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956]. A set of preoperational and concrete operational spatial problems from the weaving domain provided empirical support for the eth...

Inquire about problems of design in our time of globalization, mainly the loosing of cities identities, of architects identities, differences and cultural heritages. Philosophy, methodology and tools of Argenia, generative software able to produce complex architectural and urban scenarios connected with the cultural identity of each context.

Current localizationpractices suffer fromanarrowandstaticvisionofculture resulting in usability problems for IT product and design. To address this problem, this article compares user localization efforts of mobile messaging technology in two different cultural contexts with a new methodology of cultural usability. It calls for expanding thescopeof localizationpracticesand linkinguser localizat...

A language evolves by modification and cultural inheritance. This legitimizes the attempt to reconstruct language history and describe the processes governing language evolution. The techniques developed in linguistics are also used in sequence analysis, where inheritance is genetic instead of cultural. These problems are exciting and hard. For sake of realism the project will entail major simp...