The purpose of this study was to determine the constitution of the development model for cultural centers studied in Mazandaran Province. The basic elements of the eight developmental patterns for youth cultural centers in Mazandaran province which include religion, employment, national education, research, health, technology and communication show that the fundamental components of eight devel...

This study examines the Arabic interface design elements that are largely influenced by the cultural values. Cultural markers are examined in websites from educational, business, and media. Cultural values analysis is based on Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. The findings show that there are cultural markers which are largely influenced by the culture and that the Hofstede’s score for Arab...

This paper proposes a taxonomy to develop culturally competent practitioners. Arguments about what this might mean and how this could be achieved are discussed first, identifying problems with multicultural and antiracist approaches. The model follows the cognitive, emotional and behavioural levels of Steinaker and Bell's experiential taxonomy. Five elements are proposed: cultural awareness, cu...

Observers in both literate and preliterate cultures chose the predicted emotion for photographs of the face, although agreement was higher in the literate samples. These findings suggest that the pan-cultural element in facial displays of emotion is the association between facial muscular movements and discrete primary emotions, although cultures may still differ in what evokes an emotion, in r...

Tourist cultural and creative brands are the condensation of culture, history, design commerce. In collision blending culture commerce, it forms unique competition advantage. The developers tourist products, based on core, explore construct symbolic meaning, help tourists to complete aesthetic journey from viewing purchasing then experience. brand strategy, should base foundation, meaning image...

This paper reports on research carried out to determine the settled as well as other types of cultural markers including interface design elements and cultural dimensions that are appropriate to be used for cultural-centered website design and localization. For this, research discussed in this paper builds upon the existing body of research in website design and anthropologists’ cultural dimens...

This cross-cultural study of international tourist flows (ITF) within China reinforces the literature in two respects. First, a factual ‘cultural distance’ variable, formed from cultural constructs, has been used to underpin the comparative framework in addition to commonly applied cultural proxies. This was enhanced by the use of the discrete choice approach by which the operational challenges...