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
Note: This feature is available only for Digital People running on the Human OS version 2.3+.
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, 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.
Note: This feature is available only for English and Japanese languages. For English we offer eight behavior styles, and for Japanese, two.
Behavior Styles for English
These styles are available only when English is chosen as the Text-to-Speech (TTS) language.
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 to User Speech and Facial Expressions. 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.
Behavior Styles for Japanese
These styles are available only when the Text-to-Speech (TTS) language is Japanese.
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.
Suitable use cases: SALES , CUSTOMER SERVICE , EDUCATION
Sweet
This behavior is caring, wise, gentle, warm, calm, but also quietly confident.
Suitable use cases: BRAND AMBASSADOR SALES FAQ HEALTHCARE
Conscientious
This behavior has a conscientious and thoughtful presence. Is intelligent, independent, resourceful, and a perfectionist.
Suitable use cases: SITE GUIDE, FAQ, CUSTOMER SERVICE, HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION
Bubbly
The behavior is lively, energetic, bubbly, expressive, and dynamic.
Suitable use cases: INFLUENCER, SITE GUIDE, ONBOARDING
Free-spirited
The behavior is genuine, adventurous, experimenting, nonconforming, unpretentious
Suitable use cases: BRAND AMBASSADOR, ONBOARDING
Shy
The behavior is thoughtful, shy, gentle, timid, reserved, a follower, and does not like attention.
Suitable use cases: SITE GUIDE, FAQ, CUSTOMER SERVICE
Troubled
This behavior is unconfident, highly sensitive, hurt, anxious, stressed, and might react strongly.
Suitable use cases: CLINICAL ROLEPLAY , EDUCATION, NOVELTY
Frosty
This behavior is tense, suspicious, cold, private, and may appear aloof.
Suitable use cases: FAQ, ROLEPLAY, NOVELTY
Japanese
This behavior is sweet, gentle, subtle, polite, and warm
Note: Applicable only when Japanese language is selected.
Suitable use case: SITE GUIDE, CUSTOMER SERVICE, FAQ
Additional Details for Experts
The following table provides technical details about each behavior:
Contents
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 |
Name | 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 | Disdain, crap, idiot, resent, moron, snotty |