Modelling Contexts in Cross-Cultural Communication Environments

  • Authors:
  • Anneli Heimbürger;Miika Nurminen;Teijo Venäläinen;Suna Kinnunen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Information Technology, Department of Mathematical Information Technology;University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Information Technology, Department of Mathematical Information Technology;University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Information Technology, Department of Mathematical Information Technology;University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Information Technology, Department of Mathematical Information Technology

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XXII
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In our research, context is defined as a situation a user has at hand. The focus in our study is on modelling contexts in cross-cultural communication environments. These environments can be physical, virtual or hybrid. Cross-cultural communication environment --user --situation is the key triplet in our context research. In our paper we discuss context as a key to situation-specific computing. We introduce our cross-cultural communication context tree and context flow architecture and an example of implementation i.e. Context-Based e-Assistant for Cross-Cultural Communication (CeACCC).