A key goal in agent research is to be able to generate multimodal characters that can reflect
a particular personality. The Big Five model of personality provides a framework for codifying …

There are several factors that influence communicative behavior, such as gender,
personality or culture. As virtual agents interact in a more and more human-like manner …

Avatars are increasingly used to express our emotions in our online communications. Such
avatars are used based on the assumption that avatar expressions are interpreted …

Agent-based computational economics studies the nature of economic processes by means
of artificial agents that simulate human behavior. Human behavior is known to be scripted by …

The use of contemporary technologies in healthcare systems to improve quality of care and
to promote behavioral healthcare outcomes are prevalent in high-income countries …

Individuals change who they are in response to their social environment. In other words,
one's identity is dynamic, varying according to context (eg, individuals present, place, task) …

Integrating culture as a parameter into the behavioral models of virtual characters in order to
simulate cultural differences is becoming more and more popular. But do these differences …

In this paper we propose a mathematical model for the concept of personal space (PS) and
apply it to simulate the non-verbal communication between agents in virtual worlds. The …

This study deals with non-verbal behaviour in a video-recorded and manually annotated
corpus of first encounters in Danish. It presents an analysis of head movements and facial …

Human interaction depends on several individual factors such as personality, social
relations, age or gender. But also the society we live in influences our behaviour. Thus …