QUOTES “’We, the youth generation, are imaginative. We lack real world experience and predict future outcomes. We come of age, create the person we want to become. Never face any limitations, worries and fears. These components make a great accidental inventor: the fanciful and active process of recognizing, …

Integrating culture into the behavioural models of virtual characters requires knowledge from very different disciplines such as cross-cultural psychology and computer science. If culture-related behavioural differences are simulated with a virtual character system, users might not necessarily understand …

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Creating agents that are capable of emulating similar socio-cultural dynamics to those found in human interaction remains as one of the hardest challenges of artificial intelligence. This problem becomes particularly important when considering embodied …