Approaches in Cultural Computing: A Survey and Inference from Social Computing with Dynamics of Mind

Cultural computing is mainly viewed as the integration of computing technology with the culture. Being inherently interdisciplinary and multidimensional, it requires an explicit comprehension as the way it developed as well as expanded from the history of technological areas. This article addresses the need for cultural computing as well as comprehensively studies existing cultural computing approaches and models from different perspectives. An insight towards dynamics of mind and its incorporation in the virtual world of Internet and social computing has been provided. The article concludes with a summary providing useful suggestions for future developments.