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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Abstract

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.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Bogserie	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Vol/bind	6895
Sider (fra-til)	1-13
Antal sider	13
ISSN	0302-9743
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_1
Status	Udgivet - 2011
Begivenhed	10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - Reykjavik, Island Varighed: 15 sep. 2011 → 17 sep. 2011 Konferencens nummer: 10

Konference

Konference	10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Nummer	10
Land/Område	Island
By	Reykjavik
Periode	15/09/2011 → 17/09/2011

Bibliografisk note

In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. (eds.) Vilhjálmsson, Hannes Högni; Kopp, Stefan; Marsella, Stacy & Thörisson, Kristinn R.

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

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CAGA: Culturally Aware Greetings in Agents

CUBE-G: CUlture-adaptive BEhavior Generation

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