
238 Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction
making to account for both inter-individual differences in gesture
use, as well as common patterns of how meaning is mapped onto
gesture form. In addition, it accounts for the fact that the physical
appearance of generated gestures is influenced by multiple factors
such as characteristic features of the referent accounting for iconicity,
contextual linguistic/discourse factors, or a speaker’s previous gesture
use. Evaluations show that the gestures producible with this model
can reasonably approximate a certain range of human iconic gesturing
and are acceptable to human users.
The results demonstrate ...