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About this book
Culture plays a crucial role in our lives. Depending on our cultural background, we judge on and react to everything that we encounter. Subtle differences in behavior can lead to misunderstandings or even culture shock. In a similar manner, virtual characters can be declined by certain user groups when showing culturally inappropriate behavior. But how can social aspects such as culture be integrated into the behavioral models of virtual characters? Birgit Endrass addresses this question by carrying out a hybrid approach that is based on theoretical background from the social sciences as well as a multimodal corpus analysis, and exemplified the approach for the German and Japanese cultures. For this purpose, different methods from artificial intelligence and multiagent systems are applied and simulated with a virtual character system.
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About the author
Birgit Endrass is a faculty member at Augsburg University, Germany, where she obtained her doctoral degree in 2012. During her PhD, she was supported by a grant from the Elite Network Bavaria (Elitenetzwerk Bayern). Her doctoral thesis received the Research Award of Augsburg University (Wissenschaftspreis der Universität Augsburg), and the prestigious IFAAMAS-12 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Diversity for Virtual Characters
Book Subtitle: Investigating Behavioral Aspects across Cultures
Authors: Birgit Endrass
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-04910-2
Publisher: Springer Vieweg Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-04909-6Published: 03 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-04910-2Published: 23 January 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 237
Number of Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations