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Investigating culture-related aspects of behavior for virtual characters

verfasst von: Birgit Endrass, Elisabeth André, Matthias Rehm, Yukiko Nakano

Erschienen in: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | Ausgabe 2/2013

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In this paper, culture-related behaviors are investigated on several channels of communication for virtual characters. Prototypical behaviors were formalized in computational models based on a literature review as well as a corpus analysis, exemplifying the German and Japanese cultures. Therefore, aspects of verbal behavior, communication management and nonverbal behavior were taken into account. In evaluation studies conducted in the targeted cultures, each aspect’s impact on human observers was tested. With it, we investigated for which of the aspects, observers prefer agent behavior that was designed to resemble their own cultural background.

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Titel: Investigating culture-related aspects of behavior for virtual characters
verfasst von: Birgit Endrass
Elisabeth André
Matthias Rehm
Yukiko Nakano
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2013
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems / Ausgabe 2/2013
Print ISSN: 1387-2532
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7454
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-012-9218-5

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