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

10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2011, AAMAS 2011

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 409-416

  Endrass, Birgit ^a   André, Elisabeth ^a   Rehm, Matthias ^b   Lipi, Afia Akter ^c   Nakano, Yukiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c SEIKEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Communication management; Culture; Multiagent systems; Nonverbal behavior; Virtual agents

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CELL CULTURE; COMMUNICATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; VIDEO RECORDING;

COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; SIMULATION AND MODELING; USER'S PERCEPTIONS; VIRTUAL AGENT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84899444898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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