Intercultural Communication Lab

We've changed our name to encompass more of the different kinds of topics we research, and we've created a new page! Please follow us at Communication and Collaborative Technologies Lab

Mary Nguyen's paper Verbal Cues of Involvement in Dyadic Same-Culture and Cross-Culture IM Conversations received a best paper nomination at !

testing the FB to Twitter connection ...

The lab, celebrating the end of a very successful semester and saying farewell to some truly outstanding undergraduate RAs.

We are very pleased to have new funding from NSF and the National Science Council of Taiwan for a collaborative project between our lab and Dr. Hao-Chuan Wang's lab at NTHU. We will be working on ways to facilitate communication across speakers of different native languages.

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1318899&HistoricalAwards=false

NSF Award Search: Award#1318899 - HCC: Small: Understanding and Supporting Communication Across... ABSTRACT Computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools and social media have the potential to allow people to interact fluidly across national boundaries but linguistic boundaries still pose challenges to communication. Advances in machine translation (MT) and other technologies have resulted in new t...

We're excited that our paper on attributions in machine-translation mediated communication was accepted for CSCW 2014!

Gao, G., Xu, B., Cosley, D., & Fussell, S. R. (in press). How Beliefs about the Presence of Machine Translation Impact Multilingual Collaborations. Proceedings of CSCW 2014.