Abstract
This paper discusses the development of a believable agent-based educational
application designed to develop inter-cultural empathy for 13--14
year old students. It considers relevant work in cultural taxonomy
and adaptation to other cultures as well as work showing that users
are sensitive to the perceived culture of believable interactive
characters. It discusses how an existing affective agent architecture
was developed to model culturally-specific agent behaviour. Finally,
it considers the role of interaction modalities in supporting an
empathic engagement with culturally-specific characters.
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