ACM 978-1-60558-246-7/09/04.

Intercultural collaboration is often hampered by the manner in which teams communicate, or fail to com-municate, their ideas, concerns, and feelings. Com-puter-mediated communication and the virtual nature of collaboration tend to exacerbate such communication issues into problems of conversation dominance, misat-tribution, and group conflict. New communication tools have the potential to mitigate some of these problems by augmenting individuals ’ and team’s awareness of their communication inputs and processes. We explore how such feedback affects the communication content, attention distribution, and affective states of Chinese and American collaborators engaged in a creative design task. We describe our tool, present preliminary findings from an ongoing lab experiment, and discuss next steps in our research regarding ways of detecting the impact of real-time conversation feedback in inter-cultural collaboration environments