Search Results for "friction"

...The motivation is to move beyond “text in, text out” and enable direct, live, multi-turn exchange involving language, gesture, gaze, vision, and modality switching without user friction. The system architecture includes a real-time multimodal signal pipeline for audio, video, and sensor data, a dialog manager that can decide when to act (speak, gesture, point) or query, and a cross-modal reasoning layer that fuses perception with semantic context. The research prototype includes components for visual grounding (understanding when a user references something in view), gesture recognition and synthesis, and turn-taking mechanisms that mirror human conversational timing. ...