What is a ‘behavior style’?
The behavior styles in Digital DNA Studio offer you the creative choice to effortlessly match the behavior of your digital person to the persona you’ve created and your use case. The behavior styles are made of many factors, and those factors result in an overall ‘feel’ for the character and empathy of the digital person. This includes:
Expressive emotional range when speaking
Responsiveness to a human’s facial expressions and speech
Style of arm gesturing; type and frequency of gestures and the energy they are performed with
Their base personality:
Base level mood
Posture
Characteristics such as eye contact and mirroring behavior
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Note: This feature is available for Digital People running on Human OS 2.3+ speaking English and Japanese, and for Human OS 2.4+ speaking Korean. |
The video below demonstrates all the behavior styles available on Digital DNA Studio. Notice how the Digital Person’s facial expressions, gestural behavior, emotional behavior, and mood change with each style.
Note that the above video is not representative of the current Position Digital Person on your UI.
Accessing Behavior Styles
A set of behavior styles are available in Digital DNA Studio, as part of the process of designing a Digital Person. The behavior style can be selected to enhance the persona you are building through your choices around the face, clothing, voice, and written dialogue. Choosing the behavior style should be an effortless, fun, and creative aspect of designing a digital person.
Behavior styles appear in Digital DNA Studio underneath the HOW SHOULD YOUR DIGITAL PERSON BEHAVE section, when Real-Time Gesturing is enabled.
Behavior Styles for EnglishThese styles are available only when English, Japanese or Korean is chosen as the Text-to-Speech (TTS) language.
Behavior Styles for English
The ‘Friendly’ style is selected by default, and this is a direct upgrade of the existing behavior in Human OS 2.2; so this is the one to use if you are happy with your existing behavior. But don’t forget to experiment with the toggles for Reacting React to User Speech and Negative Facial Expressions and Negative Speech. To experiment or select a different style, just click on it, deploy and launch your digital person, and you’ll see the new behavior style with your existing corpus.
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Note: The styles ‘Elegant’, ‘Outgoing’ and ‘Dramatic’ are not included as they are bespoke for Japanese and Korean languages, and are similar to ‘Sweet’ and ‘Free-spirited’. |
Video Examples of English
Behavior Styles for Japanese
These styles are available only when the Text-to-Speech (TTS) language is Japanese.
The ‘Elegant’ and ‘Dramatic’ styles are bespoke styles designed specifically for the Japanese language, with ‘Elegant’ being the default. To experiment or select a different style, just click on it, deploy and launch your digital person, and you’ll see the new behavior style with your existing corpus.
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Note: The style ‘Sweet’ is not included as it is similar to 'Elegant' and 'Free-spirited is not included as it is similar to 'Dramatic’. |
Behavior Styles for Korean
These styles are available only when the Text-to-Speech (TTS) language is Korean.
The ‘Outgoing’ style is selected by default, and is a bespoke style made for the Korean Language. To experiment or select a different style, just click on it, deploy and launch your digital person, and you’ll see the new behavior style with your existing corpus.
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Note: The style ‘Free-Spirited’ is not included as it is similar to ‘Outgoing’. |
Behavior Details
The More info link in each of the behavior style tiles displays further information about the behavior, the suitable use cases it can be applied to, and the emotional ranges the Digital Person can demonstrate with the selected style.
Friendly
This behavior is friendly, relatable, kind, even-tempered, empathetic, and loves to greet others with a warm smile.
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Sweet
This behavior is caring, wise, gentle, warm, calm, but also quietly confident.
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Conscientious
This behavior has a conscientious and thoughtful presence. Is intelligent, independent, resourceful, and a perfectionist.
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Bubbly
The behavior is lively, energetic, bubbly, expressive, and dynamic.
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Free-spirited
The behavior is genuine, adventurous, experimenting, nonconforming, unpretentious
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Shy
The behavior is thoughtful, shy, gentle, timid, reserved, a follower, and does not like attention.
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Troubled
This behavior is unconfident, highly sensitive, hurt, anxious, stressed, and might react strongly.
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Frosty
This behavior is tense, suspicious, cold, private, and may appear aloof.
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Elated
This behaviour is happy, joyful, and positive.
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Elegant (Japanese only)
This behavior is sweet, gentle, subtle, polite, and warm
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Additional Details for Experts
The following table provides technical details about each behavior:
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Name
Friendly
Sweet
Conscientious
Bubbly
Free-spirited
Description
Relatable, kind, even-tempered, sunny, empathetic
Quietly confident, wise, gentle, warm, calm
Intelligent, thoughtful, independent, resourceful, perfectionist
Fun, expressive, dynamic, high energy, peppy
Adventurous, experimenting, nonconforming, genuine, unpretentious
Mood (mix of base emotions that is ever-present)
happy 0.3
happy 0.3
happy 0.3
happy 0.7
happy 0.3
How responsive the DP is to human facial expressions
0.7(standard)
0.2 (low)
1 (high)
0.7 (standard)
0.7 (standard)
Modulation of response to negative human facial expressions (responding with a matching negative emotion to only concern)
0.7
0
0 (full expression)
0.5
0.7 (mostly concern)
Degree of response to negative human facial expressions (from on to off)
0.5
0.2 (slightly muted)
0.2 (slightly muted)
0.5 (negative response is muted)
0.5
Emotional Ranges. The level which each emotion can be expressed on the face (e.g Fear 0.8 = the range of fear facial expression is 0 to 0.8 where 0 is off and 1 is fully on)
Joy 1, Sadness 1, Fear 1, Anger 1, Surprise 1, Disgust 1
Joy 1, Sadness 0.3, Fear 0.2, Anger 0.3, Surprise 1, Disgust 0.2
Joy 1, Sadness 0.7, Fear 0.8, Anger 0.5, Surprise 0.4, Disgust 0.3
Joy 1, Sadness 0.3, Fear 0.2, Anger 0.3, Surprise 1, Disgust 0.2
Joy 1, Sadness 0.7, Fear 0.7, Anger 1, Surprise 1, Disgust 0.2
Eye contact
0.7(standard)
0.9 (high)
0.7(standard)
0.7(standard)
0.7(standard)
Mirroring (avatar reflects user head position and eye movement)
off
on
on
off
off
Idling (base swaying)
1
0.9
0.8
1
1
Backchanneling (nodding in response to user speech)
1
1
1
1
1
Gesturing style
General, appropriate and expressive
Gentle, cute, likable and endearing
Purposeful, thoughtful, clear and meaningful.
Energetic, lively, large, fast, frequent
Loose, large, chaotic, unplanned
Characteristic behavior boost words (words that trigger behaviors that enhance the behavior style)
Joy, laugh, near, thankful, later, important
Adorable, darling, wonderful, sunny, playful, rosy
Serious, relevant, captivating, however, think, timely, confident, competent,
Beaming, cool, delightful, sparkling, vibrant, whimsical
Carefree, inclusive, universal, freedom, generous, together
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Shy
Troubled
Frosty
Japanese Default
Description
Thoughtful, gentle, timid, reserved, a follower
Unconfident, highly sensitive, hurt, anxious, stressed
Tense, suspicious, cold, private, aloof
Sweet, gentle, subtle, polite, warm
Mood (mix of base emotions that is ever-present)
happy 0.2, fear 0.2
sad 0.3, fear 0.2
sad 0.2, anger 0.4, disgust 0.4
happy 0.3
How responsive the DP is to human facial expressions
0.7(standard)
10 (very high)
0.7(standard)
0.7(standard)
Modulation of response to negative human facial expressions (responding with a matching negative emotion to only concern)
0
0
0
0.5
Degree of response to negative human facial expressions (from on to off)
0
0
0.5
0.5
Emotional Ranges. The level which each emotion can be expressed on the face (e.g Fear 0.8 = the range of fear facial expression is 0 to 0.8 where 0 is off and 1 is fully on)
Joy 1, Sadness 0.5, Fear 1, Anger 0.3, Surprise 1, Disgust 0.2
Joy 0.3, Sadness 1, Fear 1, Anger 0.7, Surprise 0.6, Disgust 0
Joy 0.2, Sadness 0.5, Fear 0.5, Anger 1, Surprise 0.5, Disgust 1
Joy 1, Sadness 1, Fear 1, Anger 0.5, Surprise 1, Disgust 0.3
Eye contact
0.5 (low)
0.6(slightly lower)
0.5 (low)
0.7(standard)
Mirroring (avatar reflects user head position and eye movement)
on
off
off
off
Idling (base swaying)
0.7
1
0.4
1
Backchanneling (nodding in response to user speech)
1
0.2
0.1
1
Gesturing style
Small, low, fidgety
Random, frantic, disorganized, stressed
Minimal, disengaged, stilted
Gentle, likable, small gestures
Characteristic behavior boost words (words that trigger behaviors that enhance the behavior style)
Warm, comfy, endear, fearful, spooky
Sigh, sob, troubles, hurt, bleak, cry, sad