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24th January, Wednesday

12:30-15:30 Excursion
15:30-16:30 Registration
16:00-17:30 C5 Panel

25th January, Thursday

Room I Room II
9:10-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:40 Opening
9:40-10:30 Oral Session 1
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-12:05 Oral Session 2
12:10-13:20 Lunch & Poster & Demo
13:20-14:10 Invited Talk 1
14:10-14:30 Group Photo Shooting
14:30-16:10 Oral Session 3 Oral Session 4
16:10-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:20 Invited Talk 2
17:20-18:20 Panel 1
19:00-21:00 Banquet (local Japanese Restaurant)

26th January, Friday

Room I Room II
9:10-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:30 Panel 2
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-12:05 Oral Session 5
12:10-13:20 Lunch & Poster & Demo
13:20-14:10 Invited Talk 3
14:20-16:00 Oral Session 6 Oral Session 7
16:00-16:20 Coffee Break
16:20-17:30 Panel 3
17:30-18:00 Closing by PC-co-Chairs

25th January, Thursday

9:30-9:40 Room I: Opening

9:40-10:30 Room I: Oral Session 1

Teaching HCI: A Challenging Intercultural, Interdisciplinary, Cross-field Experience
Cristian Rusu, Virginia Rusu (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile)

Multilingual Communication Support Using the Language Grid
Rieko Inaba, Yohei Murakami, Akiyo Nadamoto (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Toru Ishida(Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology/ Kyoto University, Japan)

10:30-10:50 Room II: Coffee Break

10:50-12:05 Room I: Oral Session2

The Lextype DB: A Web-based Framework for Supporting Collaborative Multilingual Grammar and Treebank Development
Chikara Hashimoto (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan)
Francis Bond (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan)
Dan Flickinger (CSLI/Ventura Hall Stanford University, USA)

Culture and Computers: A review of the concept of culture and implications for intercultural collaborative online learning
Ravi Vatrapu, Dan Suthers (Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies (LILT), Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)

Inclusive Design Workshop by Regional Cooperation between an NPO and a University
Takayuki Shiose (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan)
Kentaro Toda (Osaka Gakuin University, Japan)
Hiroshi Kawakami, Osamu Katai (Kyoto University, Japan)

12:10-13:20 Room II: Lunch & Poster Presentations & Demos

Posters:
Exploiting Aligned Parallel Corpora in Multilingual Studies and Applications
Dan Tufis (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Romania)

Taiwanese versus Japanese Sense of Humor: Six Years Apart
Michiko Miyazaki (International University of Health and Welfare, Japan)
Chao-chih Liao (National Chiayi University, Taiwan)

A Case Study in Curriculum Development: Designing Courses for Task-Centered Learning Using Multimedia English-Spanish CALL Team-Teaching Aids
Yasushige Ishikawa (Faculty of Foreign Studies, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
Shinobu Suzuki (Graduate School of Foreign Studies, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
Masayuki Murakami (Research Center for Multi-Media Education, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
Reiko Tateiwa(Kyoto Junior College of Foreign Languages, Japan)
Bonnie Jennifer Shikiko Kawakami, Yasushi Tsubota, Masatake Dantsuji (Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Japan)

A Socio-cultual Comparison of Chinese News Headline Verbs Between Hong Kong and Taiwan
Andy C. Chin (Language Information Sciences Research Center, City University of Hong Kong)

MCD: A Joint Semantic Project on East Asian Languages
Hong Zhu, Yang Liu (Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University, China)

Examining Design Innovation in Cross-cultual Collaborative Design Learning
Nicole Schadewitz, Tim Jachna (School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)

Formal Cultural Ontology for Knowledge Sharing and Glossary Mining
Norihiro Ogata (Department of Language and Information Science, Osaka University, Japan)

PerspectiveTelespaces : An Interface for the Live Videos from Network Cameras Applying Perspective View
Yuya Kihara, Ikuko Shimizu (Graduate School of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
Yasuto Nakanishi (Keio University, Japan)

Board-Based Collaboration in Cross-Cultural Pairs
Gregorio Convertino (School of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, USA)
Yang Zhang (College of Liberal Arts, Industrial and Organizational Psychology Dept., Penn State University, USA)
Brian Asti (College of Engineering, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Penn State University, USA)
Mary Beth Rosson (School of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, USA)
Susan Mohammed (College of Liberal Arts, Industrial and Organizational Psychology Dept., Penn State University, USA)

Advancing Distance Education: Cultural Interaction through Learning Activities
Hsiu-Ping Yueh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Wei-Jane Lin (Kyoto University, Japan)
Michihiko Minoh (Kyoto University, Japan)


Demos:
MedSLT: A Multi-Lingual Grammar-Based Medical Speech TranslatorM
Pierrette Bouillon, Nikos Chatzichrisafis, Sonia Halimi (University of Geneva, TIM/ISSCO, Switzerland)
Beth Ann Hockey (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki , Yukie Nakao (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Bruna Novellas Vall, Manny Rayner, Marianne Santaholma, Marianne Starlander (University of Geneva, TIM/ISSCO, Switzerland)

Language Grid: A Language Infrastructure for Intercultural Collaboration Yohei Murakami, Ahlem Ben Hassine, Yoshinori Fujihara, Rieko Inaba, Akiyo Nadamoto, Tomohiro Shigenobu (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Kunikazu Fujii, Takashi Yoshino (Department of Design and Information Sciences, Wakayama University/ Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Toru Ishida (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology/ Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan)
Takao Nakaguchi (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology/ NTT Advanced Technology Corporation, Japan)

LeXFlow: a Prototype Supporting Collaborative Lexicon Development and Cross-fertilization
Maurizio Tesconi, Andrea Marchetti (CNR-IIT, Italy)
Francesca Bertagna, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Italy)

13:20-14:10 Room I: Invited Talk 1

Connecting the Universal to the Specific: Towards the Global Grid
Christiane Fellbaum (Department of Psychology, Princeton University)

14:30-16:10 Room I: Oral Session 3


Towards a conceptual core for multicultural processing: A multilingual ontology based on the Swadesh list
Chu-Ren Huang, Laurent Prevot, I-Li Su (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

How Intercultural Disaster Reduction Education change students: A case study of an evening course senior high school in Hyogo, Japan
- A case study of an evening course senior high school in Hyogo, Japan -
Yoshie Naya (Hyogo Prefectural Institute for Educational Research and In-service Training, Japan)

Adoption of Translation Support Technologies in a Multilingual Work Environment
Jahna Otterbacher (Department of Public and Business Administration, University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Parallel-text-based Support System for Intercultural Communication at Medical Receptions
Mai Miyabe, Kunikazu Fujii (Graduate School of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University, Japan)
Tomohiro Shigenobu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Takashi Yoshino (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology/ Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University, Japan)

14:30-16:10 Room II: Oral Session 4


Design and Development of Pictogram Communication System for Children around the World
Toshiyuki Takasaki, Yumiko MORI (NPO Pangaea, R&D center)

Culturally-Situated Pictogram Retrieval
Heeryon Cho (Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan)
Rieko Inaba (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Toshiyuki Takasaki, Yumiko Mori(Kyoto R&D Center, NPO Pangaea, Japan)
Toru Ishida (Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan)

Intercultural Collaboration: Instrumentality of the GLOBE Study
Mikhail V. Grachev, (Western Illinois University, USA)
Mariya Bobina (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

Fostering Intercultural Collaboration: a Web Service Architecture for Cross-Fertilization of Distributed Wordnets
Francesca Bertagna, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy)
Chu-Ren Huang, Shu-Kai Hsieh (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
Andrea Marchetti, Maurizio Tesconi (CNR-IIT, Pisa, Italy)

16:10-16:30 RoomI I: Coffee Break

16:30-17:20 Room I: Invited Talk 2

Atoms of bonding: Communication Components Bridging Children Worldwide
Yumiko Mori (NPO PANGAEA)

17:20-18:20 Room I: Panel 1

Communication in Globally Distributed Work Teams: Evidence from the Field
Chair: Pamela Hinds (Stanford University, USA)
Presenters:
Tsedal Beyene (Stanford University, USA)
Lisbeth Clausen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Miriam Erez (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Mary Beth (Watson-Manheim, University of Illinois, USA)
Discussant: Mark Mortensen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

19:00-21:00 Banquet





26th January, Friday

9:30-10:30 Room I: Panel2

Culture vs. Distance: Understanding the Dynamics of Globally Distributed Collaboration
Chair: Norhayati Zakaria (Department of International Business, Faculty of International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia)
Panel Discussant:
Derrick L. Cogburn (School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, USA)
Andrea Amelinckx (Faculty of Management, University of Lethbridge, Canada)

10:30-10:50 Room II: Coffee Break

10:50-12:05 Room I: Oral Session5

Bayesian Belief Network Analysis of Social Capital and Intercultural Issues in Virtual Communities
Ben K. Daniel (ARIES Research Group, Department of Computer Science/ Educational and Communications and Technology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Gordon I. McCalla (ARIES Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Richard A. Schwier (Educational and Communications and Technology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Cross-cultural Study of Avatars' Facial Expressions and Design Considerations within Asian Countries
Tomoko Koda (Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)

Hanzi Grid:Toward a Knowledge Infrastructure for Chinese Character-based Cultures Ya-Min Chou, Jin-Wen (Institute of Technology, Taiwan)
Chu-Ren Huang (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Shu-Kai Hsieh (National Ilan University, Taiwan)

12:10-13:20 Room II: Lunch & Poster Presentations & Demos

Posters:
The gSTARh Interaction Design Summer Schools Framework
Nicole Schadewitz (School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Pedro-Jorge Adler (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Wendy Moncur (Multimedia & Interaction Systems, School of Computing, Napier University, Scotland)
Joi Roberts (Motorola, Inc, USA)

Comparing Japanese, Taiwanese and American Attitudes toward Pranks
Michiko Miyazaki (International University of Health and Welfare, Japan)
Chao-chih Liao (National Chiayi University, Taiwan)

Chinese News Event Summarization for Multilingual Service
Ying Han, Fang Li, Kai Zhou, Huanye Sheng (Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit (The German research center for Artificial Intelligence)

Innovation Jam: Analysis of Online Discussion Records using Text Mining Technology
Akiko Murakami, Tetsuya Nasukawa, Fusashi Nakamura, Hironori Takeuchi, Risa Nishiyama, Pnina Veisberg (Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Research, Japan)
Pnina Veisberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Accuracy and Usability of Back Translation
Tomohiro Shigenobu, Akiyo Nadamoto (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Takashi Yoshino (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan/ Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University, Japan)
Toru Ishida (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan/ Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan)

Leadership, Learning and Adaptation in Internationally Distributed Work Teams
Catherine Durnell Cramton (School of Management, George Mason University, USA)
Pamela J. Hinds (Center for Work, Technology and Organization, Department of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, USA)

Project-Based Learning to Provide Multi-lingual Information on Kyoto to Foreign Visitors
Masayuki Murakami(Research Center for Multi-Media Education, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)
Shinichi Sasaki, Yuzuki Hirayama, Stewart Wachs (Faculty of Foreign Studies, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan)

The Impact of Uneven Language Fluency on Meaning Making and Relationships in Internationally Distributed Work
Tsedal Beyene, Pamela J. Hinds (Center for Work, Technology and Organization, Department of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, USA)
Catherine Durnell Cramton (School of Management, George Mason University)

Extending an international lexical framework for Asian languages, the case of Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Bangla and Malay
Siaw-Fong Chung (Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University/Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Tian-Jian Jiang (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Kamrul Hasan, Sophia Lee, I-Li Su, Laurent Prevot, Chu-Ren Huang (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei)

Demos:
TransCool: A Collaborative Online Translator
Hiroshi Tamano, Junichi Yamaoka, Yuu Ohmura (Ubiquitous Platform Development Division, NEC Corporation, Japan)

All-for-One Collaboration for Multilingual Seminars
Yohei Murakami, Ahlem Ben Hassine, Yoshinori Fujihara, Rieko Inaba, Akiyo Nadamoto, Tomohiro Shigenobu (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Kunikazu Fujii (Department of Design and Information Sciences, Wakayama University/ Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Toru Ishida (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology/ Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan)
Takao Nakaguchi (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology/ NTT Advanced Technology Corporation, Japan)
Takashi Yoshino (Department of Design and Information Sciences, Wakayama University/ Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

Possibility of On-line Collaboration through Video Conference with Language Grid
- Practice of Intercultural Global Disaster Management Education Network,f Natural Disaster Youth Summitf -
Yoshie Naya, Kazuko Okamoto, Motoko Hirota (JEARN (iEARN-Japan)
Doris Wu (iEARN Taiwan)
Mariam Mohkatari, Mojgan Momeni (iEARN-Iran)
Gia Gaspard Taylor (iEARN- Trinidad and Tobago)
Nunik Nahapetyan (Project Harmony Armenia)
Akira Kishida (Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University)

13:20-14:10 Room I: Invited Talk 3

Intra- and Inter-cultural Collaboration in Science and Engineering
Gary Olson (School of Information, University of Michigan, USA)

14:20-16:00 Room I: Oral Session 6


Conceptual Framework of an Upper Ontology for Describing Linguistic Services
Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka University/ Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

Collaborative Platform for Multilingual Resource Development and Intercultural Communication
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Kergrit Robkop (Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, NICT Asia Research Center, Thailand)
Hitoshi Isahara (National Institute for Communications Technology, Japan)

Formal Ontology of `Cultures' and `Ethnic Groups' based on Type Theory and Functional Programming
Norihiro Ogata (School of Language and Culture, Department of Language and Information Science, Osaka University, Japan)

Capturing a Conceptual Model for Intercultural Collaboration in Copyright Management
-A Domain Ontology of International Copyright Laws-
Wenhuan Lu, Mitsuru Ikeda (Graduate School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

14:20-15:35 Room II: Oral Session 7


Emotion Eliciting Events in the Workplace: An Intercultural Comparison
Peter Schneider (Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the EU (IAAEG), University of Trier, Germany)

Social Conventions and Issues of Space for Distributed Collaboration
Hillevi Sundholm (Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University/ The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden)

Designing an Aural Comprehension Aid for Interlingual Communication
Hideyuki Nakanishi (Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Osaka University, Japan)

16:00-16:20 Room II: Coffee Break

16:20-17:30 Room I: Panel 3

Language as a Bridge and Obstacle: Intercultural collaborations with Arabic People
Session Organizer & Chair: Chigusa Kita (Associate Professor at Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University, Japan)
Nava Sonnenschein (The School for Peace (Neve Shalom / Wahat al Salam) , Israel)
Kenichi Kubota (Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University, Japan)
BEN HASSINE Ahlem (Language Grid Project, Knowledge Creating Communication Research Center (NICT), Kyoto, Japan)


17:30-18:00 Room I: Closing by PC-co-chairs

Toru Ishida (Language Grid Project, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology / Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan)
Piek T.J.M. Vossen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Susan Fussell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)