
330 Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction
an external behavior planning engine. Further, behavior planning
engines rarely rely on what is directly being said as primary source
of information (text-data), and rather incorporate different concepts
and techniques for specifying the alignment at a higher abstract
level (e.g. semantic tagging, manual planning, planning through
annotation, etc.), where different additional contexts (e.g. emotions,
personality, and even communicative intent) are integrated. However,
Bergmann and Kopp (2008) describe a computational model for
the joint production of speech and gesture. The model is based on ...