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Development and Perception Evaluation of Culture-Specific Gaze Behaviors of Virtual Agents

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Gaze plays an important role in human-human communication. Adequate gaze control of a virtual agent is also essential for successful and believable human-agent interaction. Researchers on IVA have developed gaze control models by taking account of gaze duration, frequency, and timing of gaze aversion. However, none of this work has considered cultural differences in gaze behaviors. We aimed to investigate cultural differences in gaze behaviors and their perception by developing virtual agents with Japanese gaze behaviors, American gaze behaviors, hybrid gaze behaviors, and full gaze behaviors. We then compared their effects on the impressions of the agents and interactions. Our experimental results with Japanese participants suggest that the impression of the agent is affected by participants’ shyness and familiarity of the gaze patterns performed by the agent.

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  1. Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan

    Tomoko Koda & Taku Hirano

  2. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan

    Tomoko Koda & Takuto Ishioh

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  1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jonas Beskow

  2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Christopher Peters

  3. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Ginevra Castellano

  4. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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  5. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Iolanda Leite

  6. University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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Koda, T., Hirano, T., Ishioh, T. (2017). Development and Perception Evaluation of Culture-Specific Gaze Behaviors of Virtual Agents. In: Beskow, J., Peters, C., Castellano, G., O'Sullivan, C., Leite, I., Kopp, S. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10498. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_25

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