Cultural behaviors of virtual agents in an augmented reality environment

Authors:
Mohammad Obaid;Ionut Damian;Felix Kistler;Birgit Endrass;Johannes Wagner;Elisabeth André
Affiliations:
Human Centered Multimedia, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, Human Interface Technology Lab. New Zealand, Christchurch, New Zealand;Human Centered Multimedia, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany;Human Centered Multimedia, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany;Human Centered Multimedia, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany;Human Centered Multimedia, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany;Human Centered Multimedia, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Venue:
IVA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper presents a pilot evaluation study that investigates the physiological response of users when interacting with virtual agents that resemble cultural behaviors in an Augmented Reality environment. In particular, we analyze users from the Arab and German cultural backgrounds. The initial results of our analysis are promising and show that users tend to have a higher physiological arousal towards virtual agents that do not exhibit behaviors of their cultural background.