Culture for Socially Interactive Agents

∙ A SIA cannot be without cultural background. That means, if culture is not explicitly considered, the SIA will unconsciously contain the cultural cues of the designer as (s)he is the one who judges on the SIA’s natural­ ness. These cues can be on the surface such as clothing style, or manifest themselves more subtly such as choosing an “appropriate” spacial extent of conversational gestures for a young female agent.

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