This paper presents a novel process of transferring the human-generated communicative behavior onto an embodied conversational agent. The aim of our work is to build a high-resolution motion dictionary based on empirical analysis of non-verbal behavior performed in multi-speaker informal dialogues. The verbal and non-verbal behavior is recreated by using this motion dictionary and on pure, unpr...

209 When one is in a familiar context, and in the presence of a familiar audience, many verbal operants may be strong concurrently, for each feature of such an environment, by itself, is likely to have pervasive evocative effects on verbal behavior. The combined effect of many such features is no doubt incalculably complex. In relation to this welter of interacting variables, verbal behavior, a...

Psychology, it has been alleged, has sadly neglected the study of language. Still, it could be argued that there exist dozens of psychological studies of selected problems in this area; as examples, investigations of vocabulary, child speech, and language ability could be cited. Moreover, we need only mention the writings of Gardiner (8), Kantor (10), Biihler (3), and De Laguna (6) to show that...

123 Lowenkron and colleagues (Lowenkron, 1984; 1991; 1998; 2006; Lowenkron and Colvin, 1992) describe a model that explains complex behavior using only well-established behavioral principles, concepts and terms. The model, called joint control, is especially useful for understanding complex and delayed discriminations within a purely behavioral framework and with no appeal to hypothetical conce...