This article surveys the area of computational empathy, analysing different ways by which
artificial agents can simulate and trigger empathy in their interactions with humans …

The present paper sets to conduct a theoretical investigation on the role of national culture in
sha** innovation diffusion patterns in different markets. We build a culturally grounded …

This paper urges that if we wish to give social intelligence to our agents, it pays to look at
how we acquired our social intelligence ourselves. We are born with drives and motives that …

Virtual advisors (VAs) are being utilised almost in every service nowadays from
entertainment to healthcare. To increase the user's trust in these VAs and encourage the …

With this position paper the authors posit the need for a research area of Artificial Sociality.
In brief this means “computational models of the essentials of human social behaviour”; we …

Social power is a pervasive feature with acknowledged impact in a multitude of social
processes. However, despite its importance, common approaches to social power …

This work addresses the challenge of creating virtual agents that are able to portray
culturally appropriate behavior when interacting with other agents or humans. Because …

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) …

Current architectures for social agents are designed around some specific units of social
behavior that address particular challenges, such as modeling beliefs and motivations …

This paper presents an interaction study with a mixed-cultural Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA)
that investigates the impact of perceived ingroup similarity on the empathy of human …