Intercultural Communication Lab

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

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Pleased that Mary Nguyen's paper "Verbal cues of involvement in dyadic same-culture and cross-culture Instant Messaging conversations" has been nominated for a best paper award at the upcoming ACM CABS conference. Look for it in the digital library this summer!

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

We're excited about this Important conference on intercultural collaboration coming up in August! Current and former lab members are involved as program co-chair, program committee, publicity chair and proceedings co-chair.

http://cabs.acm.org

CABS 2014 Collaboration across Boundaries: Culture, Distance, & Technology 2014 (CABS 2014) will be held August 20-22 in Kyoto, Japan.

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...

Another highlight from this summer: Lab member Duyen (Mary) Nguyen defended her thesis (a year early!) and is headed to CMU for an exciting postdoc with Sara Kiesler and Laura Dabbish. Her dissertation looks at conversational involvement in intercultural CMC. Ivy Huang provided the celebratory artwork.

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.

This summer, students Ivy Huang and Hsing Lin Tsai joined us from Hao-Chuan Wang's lab at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. They collaborated with Cornell students Tina Yuan and Bin Xu on studies of multilingual communication. We're sad to see them go but hope they enjoy the sweatshirts!