Modelling Perceptual Discrepancy Towards Chinese Culture And The Development Of Cross-cultural Experience Game By Natural Interaction

In view of promoting the cross-cultural adaptation toward Chinese culture, thisresearch first established the five-factor PLATO model to describe the key dimensionsthat would affect foreign sojourners cross-cultural adaptation and understanding, basedon which the perceptual discrepancy on Chinese food culture and poetry culture werefound. By combining the augmented reality with the techniques in natural interaction,a task-based culture learning software platform was developed. Two studies weredesigned and carried out based on this software. The first study aimed at promotingnon-Chinese users’ understanding of Chinese food culture by setting different levels ofculture codes, while the second study aimed at facilitating non-Chinese users’ Chineselearning as well as poetry understanding. Users’ subjective experience and objectivetask performance were analyzed together with their culture background, traits inpersonality, cognitive styles, as well as attitude towards their own culture and othercultures. The findings and conclusions of this research would contribute to the fusionof culture learning into human-computer interaction, and also provide suggestions forthe training methods in cross-cultural adaptation.