Nonverbal behaviours improving a simulation of small group discussion

摘要: This paper reports on the development of a multi-agent simulation small group discussion that focusses interaction and coordination turn-taking. We describe addition nonverbal behaviours, such as gaze, gestures, posture shifts head facial expression, to model; how agents in take these behaviours into account their decisions speak, stop, or give feedback. The is be evaluated comparing its statistical profile against statistics generated by simpler, base model, one without show it better approximates real discussion. properties assessed include mean transition intervals, turn lengths, relation gaze speaking order, frequency simultaneous starts,