The work presented in this thesis investigates studies and theories of culture, social
power and the relationship between culture and emotion studied by psychologists and anthropology.
We operationalised a Cultural Dimension model, proposed by Hofstede, and
Social Power and integrated them into an already existing architecture for autonomous
agents called “FAtiMA”.
The purpose of the adapted system is to generate culturally-specific behaviour in character
interaction which is recognisably different to users.
Two different experiments, with human participants, were conducted to investigate the
perceived differences between two different groups of characters: with and without cultural
parameters.
The main result shows that users do recognise the differences in character behaviour between
the two experimental cases, which demonstrates that our model is able to create
culturally-specific synthetic characters
