INTER - An app for intercultural communication

Hu Xiaoyi, Li Mengyue, Sun Jie

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Abstract

To improve an intercultural communication between foreigners and Chinese in mainland China, an app called INTER is designed help them to find common communication topics. Questions & Answers (Q&A) and information push are utilized in the app application. A User interface is designed and preliminary tested by 30 participants studied in mainland China, who come from different cultural environments. During the test, they are given one actual user interface, and asked to fill in a questionnaire, followed by an interview for user experience collection and their personal opinions about function designs with application flow chat. INTER is demonstrated as a digital intercultural communication tool which can be utilized as software in mobile phone for an interactive accessible communication. Interface design would be further improved in the future study.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHAI 2015 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages319-321
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450335270
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Oct 2015
Event3rd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2015 - Daegu, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 21 Oct 201524 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameHAI 2015 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2015
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityDaegu
Period21/10/1524/10/15

Keywords

  • Common topics
  • Intercultural communication
  • Mobile computing
  • Multiple culture

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