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"Intercultural communication" et psychologie des contacts de cultures, un dialogue interdisciplinaire et interculturel encore à construire

Ogay, Tania

In: Raisons éducatives, 2000, no. 3, p. 67-84

Dans cet article, l'auteure se propose d'interroger l'articulation entre, d'une part, la communication interculturelle telle qu'elle s'est développée aux États-Unis au sein des sciences de la communication et, d'autre part, la psychologie francophone des contacts de cultures, une de ces "approches interculturelles" qui sont en Europe très souvent liées aux sciences de l'éducation.

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The Influence of Socio-Cultural Background and Product Value in Usability Testing

Sonderegger, Andreas ; Sauer, Juergen

In: Applied Ergonomics

This article examines the influence of socio-cultural background and product value on different outcomes of usability tests. A study was conducted in two different socio-cultural regions, Switzerland and East Germany, which differed in a number of aspects (e.g. economic power, price sensitivity and culture). Product value (high vs. low) was varied by manipulating the price of the product....

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Investigating cultural diversity for extrafoveal information use in visual scenes.

Miellet, Sebastien ; Zhou, Xinyue ; He, Lingnan ; Rodger, Helen ; Caldara, Roberto

In: Journal of Vision, 2010, vol. 10, no. 6, p. 21

Culture shapes how people gather information from the visual world. We recently showed that Western observers focus on the eyes region during face recognition, whereas Eastern observers fixate predominantly the center of faces, suggesting a more effective use of extrafoveal information for Easterners compared to Westerners. However, the cultural variation in eye movements during scene...

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Social experience does not abolish cultural diversity in eye movements

Kelly, David J. ; Jack, Rachael E. ; Miellet, Sebastien ; De Luca, Emanuele ; Foreman, Kay ; Caldara, Roberto

In: Frontiers in Cultural Psychology, 2011, vol. 2, p. 95

Adults from Eastern (e.g., China) and Western (e.g., USA) cultural groups display pronounced differences in a range of visual processing tasks. For example, the eye movement strategies used for information extraction during a variety of face processing tasks (e.g., identification and facial expressions of emotion categorization) differs across cultural groups. Currently, many of the...