Embodiment in conversational interfaces: Rea
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Helper agent: designing an assistant for human-human interaction in a virtual meeting space
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A flexible platform for building applications with life-like characters
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Fearnot!: an experiment in emergent narrative
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Too close for comfort?: adapting to the user's cultural background
Proceedings of the international workshop on Human-centered multimedia
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 First Meeting Encounters between Virtual Agents
IVA '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Agreeable People Like Agreeable Virtual Humans
IVA '08 Proceedings of the 8th 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
Culture-related topic selection in small talk conversations across Germany and Japan
IVA'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent virtual agents
"I like your shirt" - dialogue acts for enabling social talk in conversational agents
IVA'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent virtual agents
Exploration on context-sensitive affect sensing in an intelligent agent
IVA'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent virtual agents
Affect sensing in metaphorical phenomena and dramatic interaction context
IJCAI'11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence - Volume Volume Three
Exploration of affect detection using semantic cues in virtual improvisation
ITS'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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
Eliciting gestural feedback in chinese and swedish informal interactions
IVA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Small talk is more than chit-chat: exploiting structures of casual conversations for a virtual agent
KI'12 Proceedings of the 35th Annual German conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Contextual and active learning-based affect-sensing from virtual drama improvisation
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
Affect detection from text-based virtual improvisation and emotional gesture recognition
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
Towards a Semantic-Based Approach for Affect and Metaphor Detection
International Journal of Distance Education Technologies
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There are several factors that influence communicative behavior, such as gender, personality or culture. As virtual agents interact in a more and more human-like manner, their behavior should be dependent on social factors as well. Culture is a phenomenon that affects one's behavior without one realizing it. Behavior is thus sometimes perceived as inappropriate because there is no awareness of the cultural gap. Thus, we think cultural background should also influence the communication behavior of virtual agents. Behavioral differences are sometimes easy to recognize by humans but still hard to describe formally, to enable integration into a system that automatically generates culture-specific behavior. In our work, we focus on culture-related differences in the domain of casual Small Talk. Our model of culture-related differences in Small Talk behavior is based on findings described in the literature as well as on a video corpus that was recorded in Germany and Japan. In a validation study, we provide initial evidence that our simulation of culture-specific Small Talk with virtual agents is perceived differently by human observers. We thus implemented a system that automatically generates culture-specific Small Talk dialogs for virtual agents.