Abstract
Our research aims at constructing a dialogue-based instructional agent model. To achieve the goal, we propose an `open communication' model as a novel framework for instructional contents, and analyze the interrelations among verbal and non-verbal modalities (speech/gaze/posture) in manzai dialogues. In particular, focusing on inward or outward-oriented function of open communication, we analyzed two video contents of manzai dialogues and explored how multimodal behaviors and interactions of the two pairs of laughmakers realized either of the communicative functions. As a result, we found that the ways of realizing the communicative orientedness differed between the pairs of laughmakers in manzai dialogue based on the interrelations of their speech and multimodal behaviors.
