Synthetic Cultures: Intercultural Learning Through Simulation Games

Hofstede, Gert Jan; Pedersen, Paul

doi:10.1177/104687819903000402

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“…This led to a phase in which I created simulation games about information management in international settings, using my father's dimensions as scripting devices: so-called synthetic cultures (G. J. Hofstede & Pedersen, 1999;G. J. Hofstede, Pedersen, & Hofstede, 2002).…”

Section: Culture In My Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opinions: All About Culture

Schein¹,

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Kunda

et al. 2015

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The word "culture" has been used in so many ways in the last few decades that it has virtually lost all meaning. In this short opinion piece, I want to bring back the concept of culture, as it has been used by anthropologists, and show its power when used in relation to nations, organizations and occupations.The multiple uses of the word culture today have led me to reinforcing a concept drawn from anthropology that is applicable to organizations and occupations (Schein, 1985(Schein, , 2010. I think culture is a property of a group of some sort, reflecting the shared learning that the members have experienced in their efforts to survive, grow, and remain internally integrated. Culture thus always has shared components that deal with managing the external environment and other components that deal with the rules and norms of how to get along inside the group. One of the commonest mistakes in recent usage is to link culture only to the inside "how we get along" components.I had the good fortune as a social psychologist to get my Ph.D. at

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Section: Culture In My Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opinions: All About Culture

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“…Within the simulation literature, games have frequently been used to acclimatise people towards understanding cultural differences (e.g. [3], [7], [8])…”

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User Modelling and Adaptive, Natural Interaction for Conflict Resolution

Karpouzis¹,

Yannakakis

Paiva

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2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

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Abstract-Confronting conflicts and coping with them is part of social life, since conflicts seem to arise in almost every context and developmental stage of human life. The personal and collective gains that follow conflict resolution have motivated scholars across many research fields to advocate the use of pro-social mechanisms for resolution. The Siren serious game aims to support teachers' role to educate young people on how to resolve conflicts, by employing affect-aware, userand cultural adaptivity to provide interesting and relevant conflict scenarios and resolution approaches.

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“…Thus, it is more acceptable in individualistic cultures like the US to publicly display negative emotions like anger or fear than it is in collectivistic cultures like Japan. Based on Hofstede's dimensions, Hofstede, Pedersen, and Hofstede [16] define synthetic cultures as representations of the end points of the dimensions and show how specific behavior patterns differ in a principled way depending on where a culture is located. Table 1 presents a summary for the acoustic and spatial behavior of these synthetic cultures, which can serve as a starting point for modeling culture-specific behavior [27].…”

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“…Bennett [2] as well as Hofstede [16] describe similar approaches that are widely used in real-world trainings and that will be adapted for the use in CUBE-G. The focus lies on scenarios that every tourist or ex-patriate is likely to encounter.…”

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Creating Standardized Video Recordings of Multimodal Interactions across Cultures

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Abstract. Trying to adapt the behavior of an interactive system to the cultural background of the user requires information on how relevant behaviors differ as a function of the user's cultural background. To gain such insights in the interrelation of culture and behavior patterns, the information from the literature is often too anecdotal to serve as the basis for modeling a system's behavior, making it necessary to collect multimodal corpora in a standardized fashion in different cultures. In this chapter, the challenges of such an endeavor are introduced and solutions are presented by examples from a German-Japanese project that aims at modeling culture-specific behaviors for Embodied Conversational Agents.

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Synthetic Cultures: Intercultural Learning Through Simulation Games

Cited by 94 publications

References 2 publications

Opinions: All About Culture

Opinions: All About Culture

User Modelling and Adaptive, Natural Interaction for Conflict Resolution

Creating Standardized Video Recordings of Multimodal Interactions across Cultures

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