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appears not to be so well synchronized with the others except during
the first part of the conversation. Participant 1 is positive throughout,
and docks well with the others. (Participant 2 was the author who, as
one of the experiment participants, tried to maintain a less dominant
role as the dialogue progressed; Participant 1 was a guest.)
6. Multimodal Discourse in the Real World
We carried out an experiment to implement and test the above
observations in the form of an advanced dialogue system.
We installed audio and video sensors on a small robot platform.
This prototype ...