Translating agent presentations into multiple languages

2008 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19500104
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Media informatics/Database
• Research Institution: Seikei University (2008); Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (2007)
• Principal Investigator: NAKANO Yukiko Seikei University, 理工学部情報科学科, 准教授 (40422505)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2008
• Keywords: 知的エージェント / 異文化コミュニケーション / 非言語情報

Research Abstract

本研究では,(1) 日本語とドイツ語の2 カ国間での比較対象可能な,音声,ビデオ,書き起こし,非言語行動の注釈つき対話データを収集・構築し,(2) 各国の社会・文化的特徴,および非言語行動の特徴をそれぞれパラメータ値として表現し,(3) 社会・文化的特徴から非言語行動を予測するためのモデルをベイジアンネットワークにより構築した.(4)さらに,このモデルをエージェント動作決定機構に組み込むことにより,文化に応じた非言語コミュニケーション行動を生成する多言語対応エージェント生成機構を構築した.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] An Agent Based Multicultural Tour Guide System with Nonverbal User Interface (2008)
  • Author(s): Huang, H., Cerekovic, A., Tarasenko, K., Levacic, V., Zoric, G., Pandzic, I., Nakano, Y., and Nishida, T.
  • Journal Title: the International Journal on Multimodal Interfaces Vol. 1 No. 1 Pages: 41-48
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 人-人,人-ヒューマンエージェントの社会的インタラクションにおける言語・非言語行為の配置規則 (2008)
  • Author(s): 榎本美香,中野有紀子
  • Journal Title: 日本知能情報ファジィ学会誌 Vol.20, No.4 Pages: 540-556
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Creating a Standardized Corpus of Multimodal Interactions for Enculturating Conversational Interfaces, Workshop on Enculturating Conversational Interfaces by Socio-cultural Aspects of Communication (2008)
  • Author(s): Rehm, M., Gruneberg, F., Nakano, Y., Lipi, A. A., Yamaoka, Y., Huang, H.
  • Organizer: 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces(IUI2008)
  • Place of Presentation: Canary Islands, Spain
  • Year and Date: 2008-01-01
• [Presentation] Talk is silver, silence is golden: A cross-cultural study on the use of pauses in speech, Workshop on Enculturating Conversational Interfaces by Socio-cultural Aspects of Communication (2008)
  • Author(s): Endrass, B., Rehm, M., Andre, E., and Nakano, Y
  • Organizer: 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces(IUI2008)
  • Place of Presentation: Canary Islands, Spain
  • Year and Date: 2008-01-01
• [Presentation] Toward a Culture Adaptive Conversational Agent with a Modularized Approach, Workshop on Enculturating Conversational Interfaces by Socio-cultural Aspects of Communication (2008)
  • Author(s): Huang, H., Cerekovic, A., Pandzic, I., Nakano, Y, and Nishida, T.
  • Organizer: 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces(IUI2008)
  • Place of Presentation: Canary Islands, Spain
  • Year and Date: 2008-01-01
• [Presentation] Culture-specific first meeting encounters between virtual agents (Finalist Best Paper Award) (2008)
  • Author(s): Matthias Rehm, Yukiko Nakano, Elisabeth Andre, and Toyoaki Nishida
  • Organizer: In Intelligent Virtual Agents 2008, pp. 223-236
  • Place of Presentation: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • Year and Date: 2008
• [Presentation] Enculturating Conversational Agents based on a Comparative Corpus Study (2008)
  • Author(s): Akhter Lipi Afia, Yuji Yamaoka, Yukiko Nakano, and Matthias Rehm
  • Organizer: In Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp. 465-467
  • Place of Presentation: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • Year and Date: 2008
• [Presentation] 日独間における非言語行動の比較と特徴記述パラメータの提案 (2008)
  • Author(s): 中野有紀子,Matthias Rehm,Afia Akhter Lipi
  • Organizer: HAI シンポジウム2008
  • Year and Date: 2008
• [Presentation] 会話エージェントにおける非言語行動の異文化適応 (2008)
  • Author(s): 山岡 雄治, Akhter Lipi Afia , Rehm Matthias,中野 有紀子
  • Organizer: 第22 回人工知能学会全国大会
  • Year and Date: 2008
• [Presentation] The CUBE-G approach - Coaching culgure-specific nonverbal behavior by virtual agents. (2007)
  • Author(s): Rehm, M., Andre, E., Bee, N., Endrass, B., Wissner, M., Nakano, Y., Nishida T., Huang, H.
  • Organizer: Proceedings of the 38th Conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA),
  • Place of Presentation: Nijmegen, New Zealand
  • Year and Date: 2007-07-01
• [Book] Modeling Human-Agent Interaction Using Bayesian Network Technique, New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence:JSAI 2007 Conference and Workshops, Miyazaki, Japan, June 18-22, 2007, Revised Selected Papers (2007)
  • Author(s): Nakano, Y., Murata, K., Enomoto, M., Arimoto, Y., Asa, Y., and Sagawa, H.
  • Total Pages: 5-12
  • Publisher: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• [Book] 人と共生するエージェント 3.2 節(山田誠二(編)エージェントによるしぐさと視線のコミュニケーション) (2007)
  • Author(s): 中野有紀子
  • Publisher: 東京電機大学出版
• [Book] Engineering Approaches to Conversational Informatics(Nishida, T. (Ed.)Attentional Behaviors as Nonverbal Communicative Signals in Situated Interactions with Conversational Agents) (2007)
  • Author(s): Nakano, I. Y., and Nishida, T.
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• [Remarks] Workshop on Enculturating Conversational Interfaces by Socio-cultural Aspects of Communication, 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI2008)
  • URL: http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/documents/ECI/
• [Remarks] Special Issue Enculturating Human Computer Interaction, Journal of AI & Society
  • URL: http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/documents/EHCI/