Culture and Social Relationship as factors of affecting communicative non-verbal behaviors

The goal of this paper is to link a bridge between social relationship and cultural variation to predict conversants’ non-verbal behaviors. This idea serves as a basis of establishing a parameter based socio-cultural model which determines non-verbal expressive parameters that specify the shapes of agent’s nonverbal behaviors in HAI. As a first step, comparative multimodal corpus analysis is done for two cultures in two specific social situations. Next by integrating the Hofstede theory of culture and our empirical data from corpus analysis, we found that non-verbal expressive parameters determined by our model successfully demonstrate that both cultural background and social relationship moderate communicative non-verbal behaviors.