Abstract
This paper presents a pilot evaluation study that investigates the physiological response of users when interacting with virtual agents that resemble cultural behaviors in an Augmented Reality environment. In particular, we analyze users from the Arab and German cultural backgrounds. The initial results of our analysis are promising and show that users tend to have a higher physiological arousal towards virtual agents that do not exhibit behaviors of their cultural background.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Jan, D., Herrera, D., Martinovski, B., Novick, D., Traum, D.: A Computational Model of Culture-Specific Conversational Behavior. In: Pelachaud, C., Martin, J.-C., André, E., Chollet, G., Karpouzis, K., Pelé, D. (eds.) IVA 2007. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 4722, pp. 45–56. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
Endrass, B., André, E., Rehm, M., Lipi, A.A., Nakano, Y.: Culture-related differences in aspects of behavior for virtual characters across germany and japan. In: Proc. of 10th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, Richland, SC, vol. 2, pp. 441–448 (2011)
Obaid, M., Niewiadomski, R., Pelachaud, C.: Perception of Spatial Relations and of Coexistence with Virtual Agents. In: Vilhjálmsson, H.H., Kopp, S., Marsella, S., Thórisson, K.R. (eds.) IVA 2011. LNCS, vol. 6895, pp. 363–369. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)
Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Papagiannakis, G., Chaudhuri, P.: Applications of Interactive Virtual Humans in Mobile Augmented Reality. In: Furht, B. (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Multimedia, 2nd edn. Springer (2008)
Kastanis, I., Slater, M.: Reinforcement learning utilizes proxemics: An avatar learns to manipulate the position of people in immersive virtual reality. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 9(1), 3:1–3:15 (2012)
Jan, D., Traum, D.: Dynamic movement and positioning of embodied agents in multiparty conversations. In: Proc. of the Workshop on Embodied Language Processing, EmbodiedNLP 2007, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, pp. 59–66. Association for Computational Linguistics (2007)
Pedica, C., Högni Vilhjálmsson, H., Lárusdóttir, M.: Avatars in conversation: The importance of simulating territorial behavior. In: Safonova, A. (ed.) IVA 2010. LNCS, vol. 6356, pp. 336–342. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
Llobera, J., Spanlang, B., Ruffini, G., Slater, M.: Proxemics with multiple dynamic characters in an immersive virtual environment. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 8(1), 3:1–3:12 (2010)
Bailenson, J.N., Blascovich, J., Beall, A.C., Loomis, J.M.: Interpersonal distance in immersive virtual environments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 29(7), 819–833 (2003)
Mumm, J., Mutlu, B.: Human-robot proxemics: physical and psychological distancing in human-robot interaction. In: Proc. of the 6th Int. Conf. on Human-robot Interaction, HRI 2011, pp. 331–338. ACM, New York (2011)
Hofstede, G., Hofstede, G.J., Minkov, M.: Cultures and Organisations. Software of the Mind. Intercultural Cooperation and its Importance for Survival. McGraw Hill (2010)
Hall, E.T.: The Hidden Dimension. Doubleday (1966)
Ting-Toomey, S.: Communicating across cultures. The Guilford Press, New York (1999)
Hofstede, G.J., Pedersen, P.B., Hofstede, G.: Exploring Culture - Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures. Intercultural Press, Yarmouth (2002)
Byrne, D.: The attraction paradigm. Academic Press, New York (1971)
Damian, I., Endrass, B., Huber, P., Bee, N., André, E.: Individualized Agent Interactions. In: Allbeck, J.M., Faloutsos, P. (eds.) MIG 2011. LNCS, vol. 7060, pp. 15–26. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)
Wagner, J., Lingenfelser, F., André, E.: The social signal interpretation framework (SSI) for real time signal processing and recognition. In: Proc. of Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy, pp. 3245–3248 (2011)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Obaid, M., Damian, I., Kistler, F., Endrass, B., Wagner, J., André, E. (2012). Cultural Behaviors of Virtual Agents in an Augmented Reality Environment. In: Nakano, Y., Neff, M., Paiva, A., Walker, M. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7502. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33197-8_42
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33197-8_42
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-33196-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-33197-8
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)