An executable model of the interaction between verbal and non-verbal communication

In this paper an executable generic process model is proposed for combined verbal and non-verbal communication processes and their interaction. The mo del has been formalised by three-levelled partial temporal models, covering both the material and mental processes and their relations. The generic pr ocess model has been designed, implemented and used to simulate different t ypes of interaction between verbal and non-verbal communication processes: a non-verbal communication process that adds and modifies content to a verb al communication process, but also provides a protocol for the (control of the) verbal communication process. With respect to the communication protoc ol stimulus-response behaviour and deliberate behaviour have been modelled and simulated.