%0 Conference Paper
%1 solomon2009evaluating
%A Solomon, Steven
%A Hays, Matthew J.
%A Chen, Grace
%A Rosenberg, Milton
%B Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
%D 2009
%K Behavior Cognitive Cultural Evaluation Human Knowledge Learning Model Norms Representation Schemas framework
%T Evaluating a Framework for Representing Cultural Norms for Human Behavior Models
%X Cultural awareness training is seen as a necessity in the military, in international business, and in diplomacy. The Culturally-Affected Behavior project has defined a framework for encoding cultural norms and values that facilitates the creation of human behavior models having cultural knowledge separate from domain knowledge. We evaluated a simulation based on the framework as a tool for learning cultural norms. Users were provided a worked example of a meeting with a first virtual character as a training session, and were subsequently able to distinguish appropriate socio-cultural actions from inappropriate actions in a meeting with a second character of the same culture, and in a judgment survey.