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Towards Culturally-Aware Virtual Agent Systems

Towards Culturally-Aware Virtual Agent Systems

Birgit Endrass, Elisabeth André, Matthias Rehm
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781615208838|ISBN10: 1615208836|EISBN13: 9781615208845
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-883-8.ch018
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Endrass, Birgit, et al. "Towards Culturally-Aware Virtual Agent Systems." Handbook of Research on Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Perspectives and Models, edited by Emmanuel G. Blanchard and Danièle Allard, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 412-430. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-883-8.ch018

APA

Endrass, B., André, E., & Rehm, M. (2011). Towards Culturally-Aware Virtual Agent Systems. In E. Blanchard & D. Allard (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Perspectives and Models (pp. 412-430). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-883-8.ch018

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Endrass, Birgit, Elisabeth André, and Matthias Rehm. "Towards Culturally-Aware Virtual Agent Systems." In Handbook of Research on Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Perspectives and Models, edited by Emmanuel G. Blanchard and Danièle Allard, 412-430. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-883-8.ch018

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Abstract

Globalization leads to an increase in intercultural encounters with a risk of misunderstandings due to different patterns of behavior and understanding. Learning applications have been proposed that employ virtual agents as their primary tool. Through their embodiment, learning can be done in a game-like environment in a more interesting way than for example learning with a textbook. The authors support the idea that virtual agents are a great opportunity for teaching cultural awareness. Realizing this, the concept of culture needs to be translated into computational models and the advantages of different systems using virtual agents need to be considered. Therefore, the authors reflect in this chapter on how virtual agents can help to learn about culture, scan definitions of culture from the social sciences, give an overview on how multiagent systems developed over time and classify the state of the art that integrates culture in multiagent systems. In addition, an approach of simulating culture-specific behavior using such a multiagent system is introduced and future trends in enculturating virtual agent systems are outlined.

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