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This project investigates the nature of human communicative interaction, with the aim of extracting underlying commonalities in the use of language and other communicative systems (gesture, gaze, facial expression) across languages and cultures. It is driven by the hypothesis that there is a human interactional system, phylogenetically and ontogenetically prior to language, which largely structures the nature of human verbal interaction, and may have deep effects on the structure of language systems themselves (and, in turn, may be affected by local

This project investigates the nature of human communicative interaction, with the aim of extracting underlying commonalities in the use of language and other communicative systems (gesture, gaze, facial expression) across languages and cultures. It is driven by the hypothesis that there is a human interactional system, phylogenetically and ontogenetically prior to language, which largely structures the nature of human verbal interaction, and may have deep effects on the structure of language systems themselves (and, in turn, may be affected by local

Multimodal Interaction Should Degrade Gracefully Human interaction degrades gracefully; for example, a face-to-face conversation degrades gracefully in that it still remains effective when one of the participants in the conversation is functionally blind, e.g., when talking over a telephone. This form of graceful degradation is due to the high level of redundancy in human communication. As man-machine interfaces come to include multimodal interaction, we need to ensure that these interfaces degrade gracefully in a manner akin to human conversation.