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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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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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