Too close for comfort?: adapting to the user's cultural background
Proceedings of the international workshop on Human-centered multimedia
Using rituals to express cultural differences in synthetic characters
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
But that was in another country: agents and intercultural empathy
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
PsychSim: modeling theory of mind with decision-theoretic agents
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Thespian: modeling socially normative behavior in a decision-theoretic framework
IVA'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Feeling and reasoning: a computational model for emotional characters
EPIA'05 Proceedings of the 12th Portuguese conference on Progress in Artificial Intelligence
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With the increase in the development of autonomous agents, there is a bigger demand on their capability of interacting with other agents and users in ways that are natural and inspired by how humans interact. However, cultural aspects have been largely neglected so far, even though they are a crucial aspect of human societies. Our goal is to create an architecture able to model cultural groups of agents with perceivable distinct behaviour. In particular, this paper focus on how to use two cultural dimensions proposed by Hofstede in order to influence the agent's goal selection and appraisal processes. Using our cultural architecture, we created two cultural groups of agents and asked users to visualise them performing a short emergent story. We then asked them to describe the two groups visualised. Results confirmed that users did perceived differences in the groups, and those differences were congruent with the cultural parametrisation used.