Second VENACO Workshop
The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue

Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy
September 16-20, 1991

Multiplexing, Diviplexing, and the Control of Multimodal Dialogue

M. M. Taylor

DCIEM, North York, Ontario, Canada

At the first Venaco workshop, the mathematical and physical constraints leading to the Layered Protocol structure of dialogue were described. It was argued that considerations of informational efficiency in the communication between intelligent partners demand layered coding. The constraints limiting communication seem to be fundamental and unavoidable, and therefore a layered coding structure should be found in any efficient communication in which the partners are not designed as complements of one another.

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Bibliographic reference.  Taylor, M. M. (1991): "Multiplexing, diviplexing, and the control of multimodal dialogue", In SMMD-1991, 115-118.