Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

Payr, Sabine; Trappl, Robert