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2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Modeling Multimodal Communication as a Complex System
Author : Kristinn R. Thórisson
Published in: Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The overall behavior and nature of
complex natural systems
is in large part determined by the
number
and
variety
of the mechanisms involved – and the
complexity of their interactions
. Embodied natural communication belongs to this class of systems, encompassing many cognitive mechanisms that interact in highly complex ways, both within and between communicating individuals, constituting a
heterogeneous, large, densely-coupled
system (HeLD). HeLDs call for finer model granularity than other types of systems, lest we risk them to be not only
incomplete
but likely
incorrect
. Consequently, models of communication must encompass a large subset of the functions and couplings that make up the real system, calling for a powerful methodology for integrating information from multiple fields and for producing runnable models. In this paper I propose such an approach,
abstract module hierarchies,
that leverages the benefits of modular construction without forcing modularity on the phenomena being modeled.