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Using Graphics to Communicate Across Cultures

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2004)

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This paper explores the potential of graphical communication for cross-linguistic/cultural interaction. Results demonstrate that interactive graphical communication provides a useful cross-cultural communication tool. However, communicative success is limited by information type, such that concepts that do not share a comparable visual form across cultures are less successfully communicated.

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  1. ATR Media Information Science Laboratories, 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, 619-0228, Japan

    Nicolas Fay, Takugo Fukaya, Ichiro Umata & Yasuhiro Katagiri

  2. Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politecnia de Madrid, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Nik Swoboda

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  1. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB3 0FD, Cambridge, UK

    Alan F. Blackwell

  2. Clayton School of IT Monash University, 3800, Australia

    Kim Marriott

  3. Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University, Japan

    Atsushi Shimojima

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Fay, N., Swoboda, N., Fukaya, T., Umata, I., Katagiri, Y. (2004). Using Graphics to Communicate Across Cultures. In: Blackwell, A.F., Marriott, K., Shimojima, A. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2980. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25931-2_36

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