Behavior Styles

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Last updated: Jan 23, 2024 by Karen Greaves (Deactivated)
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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 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.

Demo Video - Behavior Styles

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.

These 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 React to 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.

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’.

Behavior Style Options for English

 

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.

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.

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

Elated

This behaviour is happy, joyful, and positive.

SALES, CUSTOMER SRIVICE, GREETER

Elegant (Japanese only)

This behavior is sweet, gentle, subtle, polite, and warm

Suitable use case: LANGUAGE BESPOKE, CUSTOMER SERVICE, FAQ

Dramatic (Japanese only)

This behavior is expressive, authentic, high-energy, spirited and unconstrained

Suitable use case: LANGUAGE BESPOKE, ENTERTAINMENT, INFLUENCER

Outgoing (Korean only)

This behavior is approachable, confident, open, well-mannered, friendly

Suitable use case: LANGUAGE BESPOKE, CUSTOMER SERVICE, EDUCATION