A data-driven approach to model Culture-specific Communication Management Styles for Virtual Agents

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 99-106

  Endrass, Birgit ^a   André, Elisabeth ^a   Huang, Lixing ^b   Gratch, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Communication management; Culture; Multiagent systems; Simulation; Virtual Agents

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CELL CULTURE; COMMUNICATION; MANAGEMENT; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; EMPIRICAL DATA; SIMULATION; TRAINING SESSIONS; VIRTUAL AGENT; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84899465472     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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