text_combined: towards culturally situated agents call papers participation issues cross cultural communication towards culturally situated agents http www nttmsc com kido pricai98cfp html 24th november 1998 singapore introduction culture underlies every aspect social behavior influences communication style personality character motivation knowledge cognition extensive body work crosscultural differences communication styles linguistics cultural anthropology literature intelligent user interface design community years fueled recognition different types users motivated different needs goals attention given development adaptive user interfaces however line research development given little consideration influence culture plays shaping users want computational experience order create interfaces accommodate different user styles therefore important understand cultural influences since many cases user react interfaces basis cultural background similarly view agent software robot social member cyber society agent must able invoke cultural knowledge order communicate flexibly human users possibly agents agents reflective designers communicative behaviors able adapt styles agents meet heterogeneous distributed environments virtual reality worlds agents may trapped tower babel goal workshop discuss cultural influences may inform interactions among human software agents workshop intended attract participants communities concerned perspective communication topics interest workshop aims interdisciplinary nature therefore open contributions various research fields topics workshop addresses relevant instance anthropology sociology sociolinguistics human computer interaction hci cscw machine learning adaptive systems research collaborative virtual environments multimedia multiuser environments ethnology social sciences psychology cognitive science scope workshop includes need restricted following topics nature cross cultural communication including case studies examples origin evolution communication linguistic ethnographic studies cross cultural communication negotiation strategies among humans different cultural backgrounds negotiation strategies among agents informed different cultural principles user interfaces new media cross cultural communication impact internet technology cross cultural communication culturally situated metaphors interface machine agent design ethnomethodology interface agent design culturally dependent metaphors language describing talking humans machines agents influences design process theory model building scientific experimentation case studies program execution problems due agent agent human agent miscommunication standards open development multiple ontologies mult iagent communication heterogeneous environments working examples culturally adaptive agents multiagent humanagent systems papers address topics context relate issues agent design agent behavior participation submission papers workshop comprise keynote talks panel discussion participants different research areas presentations preliminary findings workshop participants participants selected organizing committee see based submitted papers potential participants wish present work workshop submit short paper 5 000 words extended abstract 1 500 2 500 words contributions describe work progress completed work positions give significant insight issues cross cultural communication potential participants send statement interest one page briefly describing work interest workshop participants asked contribute paper final working notes participants invited bring poster presenting work submissions sent email ascii unix compatible postscript rtf workshop chair takashi kido msckido po1 infosphere jp information workshop please contact workshop chair takashi kido msckido po1 infosphere jp important dates abstracts papers due july 18 1998 notification acceptance september 20 1998 camera ready version final paper due october 18 1998 date workshop sunday november 22 1998 organizing committee kido takashi ntt msc kuala lumpur malaysia patricia oneill brown asia pacific technology program u department commerce washington dc usa kerstin dautenhahn department cybernetics university reading uk stephen smoliar fx palo alto laboratory us workshop chair please send abstracts papers questions kido takashi ntt msc sdn bhd 437563 h letter box 37 18th floor ubn tower 10 jalan p ramlee 50250 kuala lumpa malaysia kuala lumpur malaysia phone 60 3 238 4077 fax 60 3 238 4037 202 0476 e mail msckido po1 infosphere jp