CHAPTER 14
Modeling Human
Communication Dynamics
for Virtual Human
Louis-Philippe Morency, Ari Shapiro
and Stacy Marsella
1. Introduction
Face-to-face communication is a highly interactive process where
participants mutually exchange and interpret linguistic and gestural
signals. Communication dynamics represent the temporal relationship
between these communicative signals. Even when only one person
speaks at a time, other participants exchange information continuously
amongst themselves and with the speaker through gesture, gaze,
posture and facial expressions. The transactional view of human
communication shows an important dynamic between communicative
behaviors where each person serves simultaneously as speaker
and listener (Watzlawick et ...