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2015
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(2015): Modeling culture in intelligent virtual agents. In: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 30 (5), S. 931-962. DOI: 10.1007/s10458-015-9312-6
Abstract: 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 culture influences how people perceive their social reality it is important to have agent models that explicitly consider social elements, such as existing relational factors. We addressed this necessity by integrating culture into a novel model for simulating human social behavior. With this model, we operationalized a particular dimension of culture—individualism versus collectivism—within the context of an interactive narrative scenario that is part of an agent-based tool for intercultural training. Using this scenario we conducted a cross-cultural study in which participants from a collectivistic country (Portugal) were compared with participants from an individualistic country (the Netherlands) in the way they perceived and interacted with agents whose behavior was either individualistic or collectivistic, according to the configuration of the proposed model. In the obtained results, Portuguese subjects rated the collectivistic agents more positively than the Dutch but both countries had a similarly positive opinion about the individualistic agents. This experiment sheds new light on how people from different countries differ when assessing the social appropriateness of virtual agents, while also raising new research questions on this matter.
Keywords: Agent-based Modelling, cross-cultural, culturally appropriate behavior, Culture, Disziplin, Favoriten, individual vs collective, individuell, intercultural training, kollektiv, Kultur, Kulturspezifizität, Kulturtheorie, Modelle/Theorien, Modellierung, simulation, social appropriateness, social importance dynamics, virtual agents 2014
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(2014): Age-related differences in judgments of inappropriate behavior are related to humor style preferences. In: Psychology and Aging 29 (3), S. 528-541. DOI: 10.1037/a0036666
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25244473 Abstract: Identifying social gaffes is important for maintaining relationships. Older adults are less able than young to discriminate between socially appropriate and inappropriate behavior in video clips. One open question is how these social appropriateness ratings relate to potential age differences in the perception of what is actually funny or not. In the present study, young, middle-aged, and older adults were equally able to discriminate between appropriate and inappropriate social behavior in a diverse set of clips relevant across age groups. However, young and middle-aged adults rated the gaffe clips as funnier than control clips and young adults smiled more during the inappropriate clips than the control clips. Older adults did not show this pattern, suggesting that they did not find the inappropriate clips funny. Additionally, young adults endorsed a more aggressive humor style than middle-aged and older adults and aggressive humor style endorsement mediated age differences in social appropriateness ratings. Results are discussed in terms of possible mechanisms such as cohort differences in humor and developmental prioritization of certain humor styles, as well as the importance of investigating age differences in both abilities and preferences.
2013
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(2013) : It’s not polite to point Generating socially-appropriate deictic behaviors towards people: 2013 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI): Tokyo, Japan: IEEE, S. 267-274
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2013.6483598 Abstract: Pointing behaviors are used for referring to objects and people in everyday interactions, but the behaviors used for referring to objects are not necessarily polite or socially appropriate for referring to humans. In this study, we confirm that although people would point precisely to an object to indicate where it is, they were hesitant to do so when pointing to another person. We propose a model for generating socially-appropriate deictic behaviors in a robot. The model is based on balancing two factors: understandability and social appropriateness. In an experiment with a robot in a shopping mall, we found that the robot’s deictic behavior was perceived as more polite, more natural, and better overall when using our model, compared with a model considering understandability alone.
Keywords: Angemessen(heit) (von Technik), Data Collection, Data models, Fingers, human-robot interaction, ieee xplore, Indexes, intelligent robots, pointing behaviors, pointing gesture, Robots, shopping mall, social appropriateness, social robots, social sciences, socially-appropriate deictic robot behavior generation, understandability, Visualization 2001
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(2001): JUdgements of Social Appropriateness by children and adolescents with autism. In: JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS 31 (4), S. 367-376. DOI: 10.1023/A:1010608518060
Abstract: Children and adolescents with autism (aged 6-14 yrs old) and those without autism (aged 6-14 yrs old) of similar age and IQ were asked to make judgments of the social appropriateness of 24 videotaped, staged scenes with adult actors. Each scene depicted an appropriate or an inappropriate interaction. Half contained verbalizations, and half did not. After each scene, the participant was asked: (1) Was that o.k. or was something wrong with it? If the participant judged the scene was wrong, she or he was asked: (2) What was wrong with it?; and (3) Why was that wrong? Both groups correctly identified inappropriate behaviors most of the time, and correct behaviors almost all of the time. However, the nonautism group detected inappropriate behaviors significantly more often than the autism group, for verbal but not nonverbal scenes. It was also significantly easier for both groups to identify inappropriate behaviors in the nonverbal than in the verbal scenes. Ratings of the explanations given for Question 3 differed significantly between the groups for verbal but not for nonverbal scenes, with nonautism participants more likely to give explanations involving social norms and principles, and the autism group more likely to give explanations that were irrelevant or idiosyncratic. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
1996
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(1996) : Self-monitoring and concern for social appropriateness in China and England. In: Pandey, Janak: Asian contributions to cross cultural psychology: [proceedings of the fourth Asian regional conference of the International Association for Cross Cultural Psychology, held Jan. 3 -7, 1992 in Kathmandu, Nepal]: New Delhi: Sage (Proceedings of the ... Asian regional conference of the International Association for Cross Cultural Psychology), S. 255-267
Abstract: purpose of this study is to determine if the patterns [of self-monitoring] obtained in Japan and the US extend to the collectivistic and individualistic cultures of China and England / the sample included 317 [university] students / a list of 62 self-monitoring items was presented in the 1st part of a questionnaire on 'self-conceptions' / also included in the questionnaire was H. C. Triandis et al's (1986) measure of separation from ingroups, a scale designed to assess idiocentrism–allocentrism (personality level equivalents of indivdiualism–collectivism, respectively) data suggest that the Chinese and English differed in their self-monitoring tendencies and their concern for social appropriateness / findings of the 2 studies combined suggest that members of individualistic and collectivistic cultures have different concerns when it comes to self-monitoring (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
1992
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(1992): Social appropriateness and impaired perspective in schizophrenia. In: Journal of Clinical Psychology 48 (2), S. 170-177. DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(199203)48:2<170::AID-JCLP2270480204>3.0.CO;2-2
Abstract: Self-ratings and judges' ratings of social appropriateness were obtained based on videotaped role-enactments of 16 schizophrenic outpatients, 16 mixed psychiatric controls, and 16 normal controls (all Ss aged 23–47 yrs) in mock social interactions. Schizophrenics were rated significantly lower on social appropriateness and were judged on semantic differential scales as showing greater deficiencies in social behavior. As predicted, impaired perspective among schizophrenics appeared to be limited to appraisals of self. Schizophrenics, like the comparison groups, were able to discriminate significantly between appropriate and inappropriate behavior of others. But unlike the comparison groups, schizophrenics rated their own behavior significantly higher in social appropriateness than did judges. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: klinische Psychologie, social appropriateness
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