ABSTRACT

This volume began with a workshop of the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence held in 2001. Concerned with embodied agents as cultural objects and subjects, the book is divided into three parts. It begins by drawing attention to the cultural embeddedness of technology in general and agent design in particular, as a reminder that

part |2 pages

Part I Cultures(s) and Agent Technology

chapter 1|18 pages

The Agents of McDonaldization

chapter 2|24 pages

Designing Technology, Designing Culture

part |2 pages

Part III Agents for Intercultural Communication