Nonverbal acoustic communication in human-computer interaction

Abstract

Nonverbal communication helps to compensate many hidden meanings omitted from spoken language. In some situations, nonverbal communication may even take the place of verbal communication. In this paper, we introduce how nonverbal acoustic communication can be utilized in human-computer interaction. We first overview acoustic techniques for nonverbal communication. Then we provide a design framework of nonverbal communication based intelligent agents. We demonstrate an example of the design using an experimental iPad game.