Re: Multi-modal communication

--- Remi Villatel <maxilys@...> wrote:

> Sai Emrys wrote:
>
> 	[---CUT---]
> > It is one thing I'd be very interested in, though;
> optimized
> > multi-modal communication is one of my desiderata.
>
> That's something that has already been invented by
> Frank Herbert in
> Dune. In his books, the Mothers of the Bene Gesserit
> (spelling?) are
> capable of speaking aloud and at the same time have
> a conversation in a
> secret gestural language.
>
> I was amazed to see this wonderfully rendered in the
> mini-series. Two
> Mothers had a futile conversation for the bugs in
> the room and discussed
> serious matter with their hands in their laps (with
> subtitles for the
> real audience in front of their TVs).
>
> I don't know if it's possible in the reality, except
> if you use the
> gestures only in between part of the verbal
> sentences and the two
> discussions must be about two very different things.
> Already it would
> require great capabilities of multitasking in one's
> brain so that both
> discussions remain coherent and don't interfere with
> each other.
>
> To a lesser extend, that what we do sometimes when
> we have a
> conversation on the phone that we also comment with
> gestures for a
> person next to us --usually to express the opposite
> of what we're just
> saying.
>
I actually had this sort of experience once.  I was
having a conversation with a Deaf friend in ASL while
talking to a hearing friend in English about two
completely different things at the same time.  The
conversation patterned in such a way that at times I
was answering both people at the same time on
different topics, in different languages.  I don't
know how I did it; I just did.  And neither partner
got mad at me for not making any sense so I must have
been coherent in both conversations.

Adam

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