RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS

The Cross-Cultural Decision-Making (CCDM) conference examines human cognition and its interplay with various cultural constructs, such as geographical, historical, sociological, and organizational cultures. This conference invites researchers, scholars, and industry practitioners from diverse backgrounds, including sociology, linguistics, business, military science, psychology, human factors, neuroscience, and education. Together, through multidisciplinary collaboration, we will seek to understand the impact of culture on people's cognition and behavior.

This study has broad application. For international business, for instance, it’s important to understand how and why groups from different cultures make dissimilar decisions when faced with the same data. Or for military leaders, understanding the triggers and warning-signs of potential societal unrest and instability are paramount. By combining neurocognitive studies with the academic disciplines described above, we are able to develop a fuller, more holistic understanding of the decisions that people, groups, and societies make, and this understanding gives us a greater ability to forecast and plan for the future. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, topics such as:

- Analyses of historical events that have shaped cultures
- Cross-cultural (or inter-cultural) competence
- Civilization change: Ideological, economic, and/or historical changes
- Commercial applications of social-cultural science
- Countering cross-cultural radicalization and violent extremism
- Decision making similarities and differences across cultures
- Extracting group or society-level understanding from diverse data sources
- Human, Social, Cultural Behavioral (HSCB) modeling and simulation technology
- Impact of culture on collaboration and negotiation
- Social networks and group communications
- Use cases: Real-world case studies relevant to cross-cultural decision-making

The CCDM conference includes paper sessions, tutorials, invited panels, posters, demonstrations, and a photography contest. Papers submitted to the paper sessions are also eligible for the Best Paper award.

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AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

This year, CCDM will also hold its inaugural Best Photo contest. Submit your photograph(s) of a unique cultural event, artifact, or activity to the 2015 Cross-Cultural Decision-Making (CCDM) conference. Photos will be displayed in the poster gallery at the 2015 CCDM conference, where visitors to Caesar’s Palace can view and vote on them. Entries will be judged based upon the quality of their (1) cultural content and (2) photographic features. For the CCDM Best Photo contest, the term “culture” is defined broadly. In a traditional sense, “culture” may refer to the practices of a society (e.g., “Japanese sumo wrestling”). It may also refer to practices relative to different societal factions (e.g., “geek culture” or “LGBT culture”), organizations (e.g., “military culture”), or other distinct groups that share commonalities.

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The 4th annual Cross-Cultural Decision-Making (CCDM) Conference is part of the Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) multi-conference. CCDM 2015 will be held in Las Vegas, NV from 26-30 July 2015. Find out more about CCDM from www.ahfe2015.org.