Culture-related differences in aspects of behavior for virtual characters across Germany and Japan

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

Culture-related differences in aspects of behavior for virtual characters across Germany and Japan

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

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Integrating culture as a parameter into the behavioral models of virtual characters in order to simulate cultural differences is becoming more and more popular. But do these differences affect the user's perception? In the work described in this paper, we integrated aspects of non-verbal behavior as well as communication management behavior into the behavior of virtual characters for the two cultures of Germany and Japan. We give a literature review pointing out the expected differences in these two cultures and describe the analysis of a multi-modal corpus including video recordings of German and Japanese interlocutors. After integrating our findings into a demonstrator featuring a German and a Japanese scenario, we presented the virtual scenarios to human observers of the two target cultures in order to find out their preferences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
Editors	Liz Sonenberg, Peter Stone, Kagan Tumer, Pinar Yolum
Number of pages	8
Volume	2
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2011
Pages	441-448
ISBN (Print)	978-0-9826571-6-4
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: 2 May 2011 → 6 May 2011 Conference number: 10th

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Conference	The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Number	10th
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Taipei
Period	02/05/2011 → 06/05/2011

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Endrass, B., André, E., Rehm, M., Lipi, A. A., & Nakano, Y. (2011). Culture-related differences in aspects of behavior for virtual characters across Germany and Japan. In L. Sonenberg, P. Stone, K. Tumer, & P. Yolum (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) (Vol. 2, pp. 441-448). Association for Computing Machinery. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2031678.2031680&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=82451581&CFTOKEN=38560723

Endrass, Birgit ; André, Elisabeth ; Rehm, Matthias et al. / Culture-related differences in aspects of behavior for virtual characters across Germany and Japan. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). editor / Liz Sonenberg ; Peter Stone ; Kagan Tumer ; Pinar Yolum. Vol. 2 Association for Computing Machinery, 2011. pp. 441-448

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Endrass, B, André, E, Rehm, M, Lipi, AA & Nakano, Y 2011, Culture-related differences in aspects of behavior for virtual characters across Germany and Japan. in L Sonenberg, P Stone, K Tumer & P Yolum (eds), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). vol. 2, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 441-448, The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China, 02/05/2011. <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2031678.2031680&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=82451581&CFTOKEN=38560723>

Culture-related differences in aspects of behavior for virtual characters across Germany and Japan. / Endrass, Birgit; André, Elisabeth; Rehm, Matthias et al.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). ed. / Liz Sonenberg; Peter Stone; Kagan Tumer; Pinar Yolum. Vol. 2 Association for Computing Machinery, 2011. p. 441-448.

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