Integrating culture into the behavioral model of virtual
agents has come into focus lately. When investigating verbal aspects of
behavior, nonverbal behaviors are desirably added automatically, driven
by the speech-act. In this paper, we present a corpus driven approach
of generating gestures in a culture-specific way that accompany agent
dialogs. The frequency of gestures and gesture-types, the correlation of
gesture-types and speech-acts as well as the expressivity of gestures have
been analyzed in the two cultures of Germany and Japan and integrated
into a demonstrator.