Development and Evaluation of an Intercultural Synchronous Collaboration System

Abstract

The Internet provides the opportunity to implement the real seamless communications over different geographic domains. However, when they cope with the network level challenges, they encounter the context and cultural level challenges. Therefore, we have developed an intercultural synchronous collaboration system, called RemoteWadaman III. RemoteWadaman III is a multilingual video conferencing system. The system has a chat tool with pictographic characters and a translation function. We applied this system to the collaboration between Japanese and Chinese people. From the experiments we evaluate the chat function with pictographic characters, the shared document function, the shared whiteboard function, and the voice and video communication function in the intercultural real-time collaboration.