Mark Stephen Meadows

"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."

"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."