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This study based on a questionnaire to two groups Chinese and American college students, found that there are differences on their emotional intelligence in negotiation between the two cultures. Chinese students concentrate on their ability to respond social situations, although on this aspect they are not as capable as American students. They also pay a lot of attention to their friends. Keeping...
The Ming-style round-backed armchair is thought as a gem of the traditional furniture. The factors that influence the evolvement of the Ming-style round-backed armchair are analysed, and the characteristics of the round-backed armchair among different periods are summarized. Such a realization will help us to create new classics furniture in modern time by taking full advantage of cultural factors.
The text from three aspects-material culture, social culture and spiritual culture touches the development pulse of industrial design. It clearly states that contemporary design not only satisfies the need of man's material life, but also increasingly considers the need of man's spiritual life. Contemporary design leaves no stones unturned to provide people with many kinds of enjoyment in practice,...
Books are the carrier of human civilization. The physical combination pattern and procedures of the patterns of books reflect the responding social consciousness. The form of books evolves with advancement of times, development of science and technology and updates of people's ideas and thoughts. History and civilization have left us tremendous and varied cultural heritage that can be enjoyed by us,...
We have proposed a method for estimating the subjective age of a person; that is, a method that yields a person's age on the basis of estimations made by that person about the age of other people by observing their facial images. Thus far, experiments have shown that Japanese people tend to underestimate their subjective age. In this study, we focus on the socio-psychological effects that may influence...
This paper describes Contexteller, a collaborative educational system for storytelling that supports teachers in configuring and adapting stories to match children's cultural background, by means of exploiting common sense knowledge. This game is meant to support teachers to interact with students with different social and cultural backgrounds, allowing her/him to create stories according to the students'...
In less than fifty years, Japanese modern package design has reached the high level which has taken the western countries almost one hundred years. The main reason for its success is that Japanese package design is deeply rooted in its own national and traditional cultures, at the same time unceasingly absorbs the beneficial elements from the foreign cultures, especially Chinese culture. In this paper,...
The main objective of the paper would be to look into the various aspects related to such areas as: (1) To explore various factors behind workplace diversity (2) Understand the importance of effective communication for building business and personal relationships. (3) Understanding the Psychology of Communication (4) Raise awareness of cultural barriers and examine how to break down such barriers...
The research presented in this paper investigated the possibility that the factors that have been shown to be correlated with success in Computer Science could be influenced by culture. Two Sudanese students have recently been through our department. While they excelled in academic areas often connected to success in Computer Science, they were unable to gain an understanding of programming at the...
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