Culture-Related Topic Selection in Small Talk Conversations across Germany and Japan

Birgit Endrass; Yukiko Nakano; Afia Akhter Lipi; Matthias Rehm; Elisabeth André

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_1

Culture-Related Topic Selection in Small Talk Conversations across Germany and Japan

Birgit Endrass, Yukiko Nakano, Afia Akhter Lipi, Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André

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Small talk can be used in order to build a positive relationship towards a virtual character. However the choice of topics in a conversation can be dependent on social backgrounds such as culture. In this paper, we explore culture-related differences in small talk for the German and Japanese cultures. Based on findings from the literature and verified by a corpus analysis, we integrated prototypical German and Japanese small talk conversations into a multiagent system. In evaluation studies conducted in the two target cultures, we investigated whether participants prefer agent dialogs that were designed to reflect their own cultural
background.

Original language	English
Book series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	6895
Pages (from-to)	1-13
Number of pages	13
ISSN	0302-9743
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_1
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - Reykjavik, Iceland Duration: 15 Sept 2011 → 17 Sept 2011 Conference number: 10

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Conference	10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Number	10
Country/Territory	Iceland
City	Reykjavik
Period	15/09/2011 → 17/09/2011

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