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Summary
We are developing a new intercultural collaboration support system CoSMOS, which
uses disaster safety maps and machine translation to support the Natural Disaster Youth
Summit project. High-definition image of disaster safety maps created by students are
posted on CoSMOS, and students can view the map in detail on a Web browser. We
create a global disaster safety map by linked individual maps to a world map. As a
support for collaborative learning over disaster safety maps, we implemented a function
to paste notes on the map. Students can post notes to the maps and reply to the notes.
In addition, CoSMOS supports five languages by using machine translation services
provided by the Language Grid and this makes the students collaborate with each other
by using their native language.
We introduced CoSMOS at “NDYS Forum 2010,” which was held in Kobe, Japan
on January 24, 2010, and it has been available on the Internet. After gathering the log
data, we are going to evaluate the system from the viewpoint of collaboration support
and what kind of intercultural collaboration can be done over CoSMOS.
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