A Computational Model of Culture-Specific Conversational Behavior
IVA '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Ethnic Identity and Engagement in Embodied Conversational Agents
IVA '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Culture-specific communication management for virtual agents
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
Feeling and reasoning: a computational model for emotional characters
EPIA'05 Proceedings of the 12th Portuguese conference on Progress in Artificial Intelligence
The impact of linguistic and cultural congruity on persuasion by conversational agents
IVA'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent virtual agents
Culture-related differences in aspects of behavior for virtual characters across Germany and Japan
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Dialog designs in virtual drama: balancing agency and scripted dialogs
AEGS'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Agents for Educational Games and Simulations
Cultural diversity for virtual characters (extended abstract)
IJCAI'13 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence
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Virtual agents are a great opportunity in teaching inter-cultural competencies. Advantages, such as the repeatability of training sessions, emotional distance to virtual characters, the opportunity to over-exaggerate or generalize behavior or simply to save the costs for human training-partners support that idea. Especially the way communication is coordinated varies across cultures. In this paper, we present our approach of simulating differences in the management of communication for the American and Arabic cultures. Therefore, we give an overview of behavioral tendencies described in the literature, pointing out differences between the two cultures. Grounding our expectations in empirical data we analyzed a multi-modal corpora. These findings were integrated into a demonstrator using virtual agents and evaluated in a preliminary study.