AN AGENT BASED MULTICULTURAL TOUR GUIDE SYSTEM WITH NONVERBAL USER INTERFACE
The advancement of traffic and computer networks makes the world more and more internationalized and increases the frequency of communications between people who speak different languages and show different nonverbal behaviors. To improve the communication of embodied conversational agent (ECA) systems with their human users, the importance of their capability to cover cultural differences emerged. Various excellent ECA systems are developed and proposed previously, however, the cross-culture communication issues are seldom addressed by researchers. This paper describes a short-term project aiming to explore the possibility of rapidly building multicultural and the multimodal ECA interfaces for a tour guide system by using a generic framework connecting their functional blocks.
user interface embodied conversational agent distributed system non-verbal interaction