Evaluating cross-cultural generative embodied social agents

  • While research on generative multimodal social agents has recently gained interest, cultural aspects of non-verbal behaviour and gesture generation remain relatively unexplored. Research has especially neglected the evaluation of these culture-specific aspects, focusing instead on general measures of behavioural appropriateness, naturalness and speech alignment. Based on the literature and our own experience, we discuss several important aspects that future evaluations should consider. We examine evaluation processes that can be replicated to analyse generative performance in a culture-sensitive manner. The paper focuses on evaluation constructs such as cultural recognizability, social acceptance, behavioural fidelity, human behavioural response, and cultural understanding, and considers what measurements could assess these constructs, such as standardized questionnaires and uniform computed metrics.

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Author:Marius FunkORCiDGND, Shogo Okada, Elisabeth AndréORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1339063
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/133906
ISBN:979-8-4007-2319-3OPAC
Parent Title (English):ICMI Companion '26: companion publication of the 28th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Napoli, Italy, October 5-9, 2026
Publisher:ACM
Place of publication:New York, NY
Editor:Silvia Rossi, Anna Esposito, Genoveffa Tortora, Cristina Conati, Francesco Cutugno, Ingo Siegert, Alessandra Rossi, Leila Barmaki
Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2026
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2026/10/15
First Page:405
Last Page:410
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3776591.3836651
Institutes:Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Informatik
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Informatik / Lehrstuhl für Menschzentrierte Künstliche Intelligenz
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
Licence (German):CC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung

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