Agent Culture
Human-agent interaction in A Multicultural World
1st Edition
Published on 11. June 2004
464 pages
978-1-135-61727-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume began with a workshop of the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence held in 2001. Concerned with embodied agents as cultural objects and subjects, the book is divided into three parts. It begins by drawing attention to the cultural embeddedness of technology in general and agent design in particular, as a reminder that
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Reflowable
File size
1,61 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-61727-1 (9781135617271)
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Content
Contents: Preface. S. Payr, Introduction. Part I: Culture(s) and Agent Technology. P. Sengers, The Agents of McDonaldization. L. Heaton, Designing Technology, Designing Culture. K. Dautenhahn, Socially Intelligent Agents in Human Primate Culture. Part II: Design for Cross-Cultural Believability. F. de Rosis, C. Pelachaud, I. Poggi, Transcultural Believability in Embodied Agents: A Matter of Consistent Adaptation. J.M. Allbeck, N.I. Badler, Creating Embodied Agents With Cultural Context. D.R. Heise, Enculturating Agents With Expressive Role Behavior. H. Maldonado, B. Hayes-Roth, Toward Cross-Cultural Believability in Character Design. B. Morel, Recruiting a Virtual Employee: Adaptive and Personalized Agents in Corporate Communication. B. Krenn, B. Neumayr, E. Gstrein, M. Grice, Lifelike Agents for the Internet: A Cross-Cultural Case Study. Part III: Agents for Intercultural Communication. K. Isbister, Building Bridges Through the Unspoken: Embodied Agents to Facilitate Intercultural Communication. H. Nakanishi, T. Ishida, K. Isbister, C. Nass, Designing a Social Agent for a Virtual Meeting Space. E.M. Raybourn, Designing Intercultural Agents for Multicultural Interactions.
