In the light of upcoming global issues, concerning population, energy, the environment, and food, information and communication technologies are required to overcome difficulties in communication among cultures.

Culturally Situated Agents.- Using Immersive Simulations to Develop Intercultural Competence.- Cross-Cultural Study on Facial Regions as Cues to Recognize Emotions of Virtual Agents.- Availability of Multilingual Chat Communication in 3D Online Virtual Space.- Capture and Express Behavior Environment (CEBE) for Realizing Enculturating Human-Agent Interaction.- Intercultural Collaboration and Support Systems.- Hesitation in Intercultural Communication: Some Observations and Analyses on Interpreting Shoulder Shrugging.- A Socio-Cultural Model Based on Empirical Data of Cultural and Social Relationships.- Dynamic Term Suggestion for Searching Multilingual School Documents.- Intercultural Collaboration Support System Using Disaster Safety Map and Machine Translation.- Development of a Multilingual Translation Service for Interpretations and Usage Examples of Mobile Phone Pictograms.- Culture and Computing for Art and Heritage.- Cultural Computing – Creative Power Integrating Culture, Unconsciousness and Software.- Logos, Pathos, and Entertainment.- Digital Conservation of Cultural Assets.- Automatic Knowledge Acquisition from Historical Document Archives: Historiographical Perspective.- Culture and Computing in Regional Communities.- Virtual Kyoto Project: Digital Diorama of the Past, Present, and Future of the Historical City of Kyoto.- A Platform for Mining and Visualizing Regional Collective Culture.- A Web Strategy for Cultural Inheritance Centered on Agriculture Case Study Approach: The Olive Project in Shodoshima Japan.- Area Informatics – Concept and Status –.

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