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Towards a Multicultural ECA Tour Guide System

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2007)

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In this article we present an ongoing project in our research group, an ECA based multicultural tour guide system. Tour guide ECA agent provides information about the city of Dubrovnik and dynamically changes its behaviors among Japanese, Croatian and general western cultures speaking in English.

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia

    Aleksandra Cerekovic & Igor S. Pandzic

  2. Graduate School Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan

    Hung-Hsuan Huang & Toyoaki Nishida

  3. Department of Computer, Information and Communication Sciences, Tokyo, University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan

    Yukiko Nakano

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Catherine Pelachaud Jean-Claude Martin Elisabeth André Gérard Chollet Kostas Karpouzis Danielle Pelé

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Cerekovic, A., Huang, HH., Pandzic, I.S., Nakano, Y., Nishida, T. (2007). Towards a Multicultural ECA Tour Guide System. In: Pelachaud, C., Martin, JC., André, E., Chollet, G., Karpouzis, K., Pelé, D. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74997-4_40

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