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Modelling Culture
I
am a Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh working with Prof.
Ruth Aylett on eCute
Project in which are working on Cultural Understanding.
Modelling
cultural differences using synthetic characters is a research based on
the anthropological models of cultural variability. It will include an
implementation of a model of Computer based agent having the capability
to display cultural dimensions as described by the Anthropologists in
different theories. This model will provide help in topics like cultural
adjustments and inter-cultural communication. It will be tested using
scenarios based on certain situations where people belonging to different
cultures interact and have problems communicating because of cultural
differences.
I am currently
designing a model for cultural agents based on PSI theory
of Emotions.
Publications:
Asad Nazir, Christopher Ritter, Ruth Aylett, Eva Krumhuber, Aleksandra Swiderska, Nick Degens, Birgit Endrass, Colette Hume, John Hodgson and Samuel Mascarenhas at IADIS elearning conference on 17-20th July 2012, Lisbon Portugal.
2011
Lynne
Hall, Syaheerah Lutfi, Asad Nazir, John Hodgson, Marc Hall, Christopher Ritter, Susan
Jones, Samuel Mascarenhas, Bridget
Cooper, Ana Paiva and Ruth Aylett, Game Based Learning
for Exploring Cultural Conflict, AISB, York, UK 2011
2009
Asad Nazir, Sibylle Enz,
Mei Yii Lim, Ruth Aylett and Alison Cawsey, Culture-Personality
based Affective Model, Special Issue on Enculturing HCI in AI
and Society Journal, Springer-Verlag London, 2009
2008
Asad
Nazir, Ruth Aylett, Allison Cawsey, Profiling Cultures for Affective
Synthetic Characters in Proceedings of AAAI Fall Symposium on Adaptive
Agents in Cultural Context (AACC, 08) November 2008, Arlington Virginia,
U.S.
M.
Kriegel, M. Y. Lim, A. Nazir, R. Aylett, A. Cawsey, S. Enz, P. Rizzo and
L. Hall: ORIENT: An Inter-Cultural Role-Play
Game, in Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Narrative
and Interactive Learning Environments (NILE), pages 69-73, August 2008
Asad
Nazir, Mei Yii Lim, Michael Kriegel, Ruth Aylett, Allison Cawsey, Sibylle
Enz and Carsten Zoll, Culture-Personality based Affective Model,
Enculturating Conversational Interfaces by Socio-cultural Aspects of
Communication, Workshop on IUI 2008, Canary Islands, Jan 13, 2008
2007
Asad
Nazir, Ruth Aylett, Alison Cawsey An Initial Approach to Modelling
Cultural Variability in Conversational Agents, Symposium on Affective
Smart Environments, AISB'07, Newcastle, April 2-5, 2007 |
