Mark Stephen Meadows

Mark Stephen Meadows (born September 28, 1968) is an American author, inventor, artist and researcher at NASA Convergent Aeronautics Solutions. He is the author of over five books and inventor of patents relating to artificial intelligence, blockchain and avatars Quotes It’s hard to communicate with words. Some researchers claim that almost half of our communication relies on things that aren’t words: body language, tone of voice, and stuff that just isn’t conveyed by text. As designers of robots (or avatars) we need to consider these statistics and consider how to integrate body language into natural language communication. Therefor Geppetto Labs has built a platform to automatically generate body language and coordinate it with what a robot (or avatar) is saying. Body language makes up about 40% of natural language: This can be automatically generated. Most NLP systems today, be they Siri or Watson, amount to conducting chat via the thin pipe of a text interface. Videos do an excellent job of conveying the importance of body language. A great video to watch is The History Channel’s Secrets of Body Language. So if we want people to engage emotionally with robots, or avatars (or any other kind of character that is rigged up to an NLP system), we need to consider using body language as part of that system. We humans are hardwired that way. Mark Stephen Meadows on In-corporating body language into NLP External links Category:Authors from the United States Category:Scientists from the United States Category:1968 births Category:Living people Category:NASA people