Culture for Socially Interactive Agents

Culture is well known to be a driving force in social cognition. Humans tend to construct their schemes and models of the world, as well as evaluate the behavior of others, based on their cultural upbringing. Although culture might not be the first factor that comes into mind when designing socially interactive agents (SIAs), there are important reasons why it should be considered. This chapter gives an extensive overview of how culture was, and can be, implemented for Socially Interactive Agents.