Title
Enculturating Conversational Agents Based on a Comparative Corpus Study
Abstract
When encountering people who have a different cultural background from our own, many of us feel uncomfortable because gestures and facial expressions may not be familiar to us. Thus, to enhance the believability of conversational agents, culture-specific nonverbal behaviors should be implemented into the agents. In our previous study [1], with the goal of building a user interface that incorporates a user's cultural background, we have collected comparative conversation corpus in Germany and Japan, and investigated the differences in gestures and posture shifts between these two countries. Based on [1], this paper reports a more detailed analysis about posture shifts, and proposes a chat system with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) that can act as a language trainer.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_46
IVA
Keywords
Field
DocType
detailed analysis,encountering people,culture-specific nonverbal behavior,comparative conversation corpus,posture shift,conversational agent,enculturating conversational agents,user interface,chat system,different cultural background,cultural background,comparative corpus study,facial expression
Social psychology,Conversation,Communication,Embodied agent,Gesture,Psychology,Nonverbal communication,Embodied cognition,Facial expression,Dialog system,User interface,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5208
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
afia akhter lipi1414.54
Yuji Yamaoka294.63
Matthias Rehm312016.10
Yukiko Nakano450162.37