Authors:
Ken Prepin
and
Catherine Pelachaud
Affiliation:
Telecom-ParisTech/CNRS, France
Keyword(s):
Synchrony, Shared understanding, Coupled oscillators, Dynamical systems, Inter-subjectivity.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agent Models and Architectures
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Agents
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Artificial Intelligence
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Biomedical Engineering
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Biomedical Signal Processing
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Cognitive Systems
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Computational Intelligence
;
Conversational Agents
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Cooperation and Coordination
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Evolutionary Computing
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Health Engineering and Technology Applications
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Human-Computer Interaction
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Methodologies and Methods
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Neural Networks
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Neurocomputing
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Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
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Pattern Recognition
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Physiological Computing Systems
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Sensor Networks
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Signal Processing
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Soft Computing
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Symbolic Systems
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Theory and Methods
Abstract:
Synchrony is claimed by psychology as a crucial parameter of any social interaction. In dialog interactions, the synchrony between non-verbal behaviours of interactants is claimed to account for the quality of the interaction: to give to human a feeling of natural interaction, an agent must be able to synchronise on appropriate time. The synchronisation occurring during non-verbal iteractions has recently been modelised as a phenonomenon emerging from the coupling between interactants. We propose here, and test in simulation, a dynamical model of verbal communication which links the emergence of synchrony between non-verbal behaviours to the level of meaning exchanged through words by interactants: if partners of a dyad understand each other, synchrony emerges, whereas if they do not understand, synchrony is disrupted. In addition to retrieve the fact that synchrony emergence within a dyad of agents depends on their level of shared understanding, our tests pointed two noteworthy prop
erties of synchronisation phenomenons: first, as well as synchrony accounts for mutual understanding and good interaction, di-synchrony accounts for misunderstanding; second, synchronisation and di-synchronisation emerging from mutual understanding are very quick phenomenons.
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