The Computational Simulation of Multimodal, Face-to-Face Communication Constrained by Physical Disabilities

IntroductionIn face-to-face interaction, interlocutors often use several modes of articulation simultaneously.An interlocutor's communication will often be multimodal even when he or she knows the otherinterlocutors cannot perceive all of the modes of communication (e.g., people often gesture whilespeaking on the telephone). Our present inquiry --- which incorporates computational modeling inconjunction with the analysis of, and comparison to empirical data --- is motivated by the desire...