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The Lexicon and the Alphabet of Gesture, Gaze, and Touch

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The paper argues that to build Multimodal IVAs it is necessary to provide them with the lexicons and alphabets of different communication systems, and it presents some attempts to find them out in symbolic gestures, gaze and touch.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione, Via del Castro Pretorio 20, 00185, Roma, Italy

    Isabella Poggi

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  1. Facultad de Informática Campus de Montegancedo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

    Angélica de Antonio

  2. Center for Virtual Environments, University of Salford, Business House Salford, M5 4WT, UK

    Ruth Aylett

  3. Radical Multimedia Lab, BTexact Technologies, Ross PP1, Adastral Park, Martlesham, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK

    Daniel Ballin

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Poggi, I. (2001). The Lexicon and the Alphabet of Gesture, Gaze, and Touch. In: de Antonio, A., Aylett, R., Ballin, D. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44812-8_20

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