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But that was in another country: agents and intercultural empathy

Aylett, Ruth, Vannini, Natalie, Andre, Elisabeth, Paiva, Ana, Enz, Sibylle and Hall, Lynne (2009) But that was in another country: agents and intercultural empathy. In: Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1. AAMAS '09 . International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, pp. 329-336. ISBN 978-0-9817381-6-1

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Abstract

This paper discusses the development of a believable agent-based educational application designed to develop inter-cultural empathy for 13-14 year old students. It considers relevant work in cultural taxonomy and adaptation to other cultures as well as work showing that users are sensitive to the perceived culture of believable interactive characters. It discusses how an existing affective agent architecture was developed to model culturally- specific agent behaviour. Finally, it considers the role of interaction modalities in supporting an empathic engagement with culturally-specific characters.

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Uncontrolled Keywords: applications, virtual agents (models of personality, emotions and social behavior)
Depositing User: Lynne Hall

Identifiers

Item ID: 1219
ISBN: 978-0-9817381-6-1
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/1219
Official URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1558013.1558058

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Lynne Hall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5090-1980

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Date Deposited: 05 Jan 2012 11:06
Last Modified: 18 Dec 2019 15:32

Contributors

Author: Lynne Hall ORCID iD
Author: Ruth Aylett
Author: Natalie Vannini
Author: Elisabeth Andre
Author: Ana Paiva
Author: Sibylle Enz

University Divisions

Faculty of Technology
Faculty of Technology > FOT Executive

Subjects

Computing > Artificial Intelligence
Computing > Games Design
Computing > Human-Computer Interaction

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