@conference {940, title = {A Cultural Decision-Making Model for Virtual Agents Playing Negotiation Games}, booktitle = {International Workshop on Culturally Motivated Virtual Characters,}, year = {2011}, month = {September 2011}, address = {Reykjav{\'\i}k, Iceland}, abstract = {We present a novel model of decision-making in social tasks for virtual humans. The model considers multiple valuations of the available choices in a decision set according to individual and social factors such as own utility, total group utility, and relative utility. Cultural differences are incorporated using Hofstede{\textquoteright}s dimensional model of culture and affect the decision making process by changing the different weightings of the factors. We have integrated the decision model into the dialogue manager of a virtual human system, and developed protocols and dialogue capabilities to support virtual humans in playing a simple negotiation game (Ultimatum Game). We present evaluations between both a culturally oriented virtual human and a person and between two virtual humans (with different culture models).}, url = {http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html/pdf2html.php?url=http\%3A\%2F\%2Fwww-scf.usc.edu\%2F~enouri\%2Ffiles\%2Fcmvc-final_.pdf\&images=yes}, author = {Elnaz Nouri and David R. Traum} }