Investigating the multimodal communication of Tourist Guides to implement a Virtual Tourist Guide leading tourists in three Italian Charterhouses, the paper focuses on an aspect of the human guide’s speech that would be useful to create a very realistic Virtual Guide: linguistic disfluencies. On a corpus of three guided tours in S. Martino Charterhouse (Naples) an analysis is presented of the guides’ pauses and their concomitant gestures.

Human, All Too Human: Towards a Disfluent Virtual Tourist Guide

Renata Savy
;
Violetta Cataldo
;
Loredana Schettino
;
2019-01-01

Abstract

Investigating the multimodal communication of Tourist Guides to implement a Virtual Tourist Guide leading tourists in three Italian Charterhouses, the paper focuses on an aspect of the human guide’s speech that would be useful to create a very realistic Virtual Guide: linguistic disfluencies. On a corpus of three guided tours in S. Martino Charterhouse (Naples) an analysis is presented of the guides’ pauses and their concomitant gestures.
2019
978-1-4503-6711-0
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Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11386/4735038
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