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This paper discusses some cultural considerations that we stand before in developing and exploiting an agent based educational software for use by Swedish and American students, age 11-14. The reported cultural challenges arise in software development, study designs, and decisions on actual pedagogical use in the two cultural settings.
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Haake, M., Silvervarg, A., Tärning, B., Gulz, A. (2011). Teaching Her, Him ... or Hir? Challenges for a Cross-Cultural Study. In: Vilhjálmsson, H.H., Kopp, S., Marsella, S., Thórisson, K.R. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6895. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_56
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