... emotions on behavior, including the impact on the physical expressions of emotional state through suitable choice of gestures and body language. ...

... Non-Verbal communications: facial expressions, voice clues (vocal paralanguage), hand gestures, body movements (kinesics) touch (haptics ...

through facial expression, body posture, gesture, gaze direction, and voice, the robotic analogs of entrainment in body posture, head tilt, and facial expression. The subjects seem to exploit this affective number of kernels (Vlassis and Likas 1999). The idea of the Gaussian mixture model is to ...

The accuracy of information obtained in forensic interviews is critically important to credibility in our legal system. Research has shown that the way interviewers frame questions influences the accuracy of witnesses� reports. A separate body of research has shown that speakers spontaneously gesture when they talk, and that these ...

Humans are the only species known to use symbolic gestures for communication. This affords a unique medium for nonverbal emotional communication with a distinct theoretical status compared to facial expressions and other biologically evolved nonverbal emotion signals. While a frown is a frown all around the world, the relation of emotional ...

We compared brain activation involved in the observation of isolated right hand movements (e.g. twisting a lid), body-referred movements (e.g. brushing teeth) and expressive gestures (e.g. threatening) in 20 healthy subjects by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Perception-related areas in the occipital and inferior ...

There is mounting research evidence that contests the metaphysical perspective of knowing as mental process detached from the physical world. Yet education, especially in its teaching and learning practices, continues to treat knowledge as something that is necessarily and solely expressed in ideal verbal form. This study is part of a funded project that investigates the role ...

(proxemics) and on bodily postures and movements that convey mean- ing (kinesics). The latter class will be more loosely referred to as "body language", to underscore the fact that while many kinesic gestures can convey meaning in their own right, perhaps the majority of kinesic contributions to non

Nonverbal communication is critical to the success of the communication process. Examines nonverbal techniques for enhancing communication: appearance, voice, body movement and posture, gestures, facial expressions, touch, and space. (LMI)

parameters in particular were investigated: sex of the mover, sex of the perceiver, and expressiveness of the movement. Videos of 96 different body movements from students of expressive dance were shown to 42 adults for the annotation of 3 videos of TV interviews. Facial displays, gestures, and speech were coded ...

We are developing a system to implement gestural drawing in an immersive 3D environment. We present a virtual artist who draws expressive forms in virtual space. In the art world, the term 'gestural' commonly refers to mark making that drives from the richness of movement of the artist. This focus on the character of motion is much ...

Current body animation systems for Interactive Virtual Humans are mostly procedural or key-frame based. Although such methods provide for a high flexibility of the animation system, often it is not possible to create animations that are as realistic as animations obtained using a motion capture system. Simply using motion captured animation segments in stead of key-framed ...

In this article, I discuss the use of illustrators, affect displays and regulators, which I consider to be non-verbal communication categories through which conductors can employ a more varied approach to body use, gesture and non-verbal communication. These categories employ the use of a conductor's hands and arms, face, eyes and body ...

In this paper, we aim to contribute to the discussion of the role of the human body and of the concrete artefacts and signs created by humankind in the constitution of meanings for mathematical practices. We argue that cognition is both embodied and situated in the activities through which it occurs and that mathematics learning involves the appropriation of practices ...

This essay discusses the manner in which the human body is developed and transformed into an aesthetically expressive medium. This process entails capitalizing on functions performed by the body schema and, more specifically, on using the perceptual experience (or "image") of the body to consciously form motor ...

Background: Speech and language therapists rarely analyse iconic gesture when assessing a client with aphasia, despite a growing body of research suggesting that language and gesture are part of either the same system or two highly integrated systems. This may be because there has been limited research that has systematically analysed ...

Background: Speech and language therapists rarely analyse iconic gesture when assessing a client with aphasia, despite a growing body of research suggesting that language and gesture are part of either the same system or two highly integrated systems. This may be because there has been limited research that has systematically analysed ...

Prior research suggested that pride is recognized only when a head and facial expression (e.g., tilted head with a slight smile) is combined with a postural expression (e.g., expanded body and arm gestures). However, these studies used static photographs. In the present research, participants labeled the emotion ...

Two eye-tracking experiments investigated how and when pointing gestures and location descriptions affect target identification. The experiments investigated the effect of gestures and referring expressions on the time course of fixations to the target, using videos of human gestures and human voice, and animated ...

Studies in social psychology [7] have experimentally validated the common feeling that nonverbal behavior, including, but not limited to, gaze and facial expressions, is extremely significant in human interactions. Proxemics [4] describes the social aspects of distance between interacting individuals. This distance is an indicator of the interactions that occur and provides ...

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postures and movements that convey mean� ing (kinesics). The latter class will be more loosely referred to as ``body language'', to underscore the fact that while many kinesic gestures can convey meaning in their own right, perhaps the majority of kinesic contributions to non�verbal communication occurs

- times referred to as an otolaryngologist or otologist. Etiology of Hearing Loss: The cause that is caused by one of more than a hundred genes that are known to be responsible for hereditary hearing loss cause temporary hearing loss, which can evolve into per- manent hearing loss. Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE

Non-verbal visual cues accompany speech to supplement the meaning of spoken words, signify emotional state, indicate position in discourse, and provide back-channel feedback. This visual information includes head movements, facial expressions and body gestures. In this paper we describe techniques for manipulating both verbal and ...

Nonverbal visual cues accompany speech to supplement the meaning of spoken words, signify emotional state, indicate position in discourse, and provide back-channel feedback. This visual information includes head movements, facial expressions and body gestures. In this article we describe techniques for manipulating both verbal and ...

The extended mind thesis (EM) asserts that some cognitive processes are (partially) composed of actions consisting of the manipulation and exploitation of environmental structures. Might some processes at the root of social cognition have a similarly extended structure? In this paper, I argue that social cognition is fundamentally an interactive form of space management-the negotiation and ...

This paper describes motivations and techniques to extend the expressive grammar of dance and theatrical performances. We first give an outline of previous work in performance, which has inspired our research, and explain how our technology can contribute along historical directions of exploration. We then present real-time computer vision based body ...

This paper deals with aspects of the resolution of deictic and elliptic expressions that axe related to gestures. It discusses different approaches to distinguish between deictic pointing and manipulative gestures. We compare two strategies of combining nat- ural multimodal communication with di- rect manipulation. The first ...

Systematic observations of student gestures can not only fill in gaps in students� verbal expressions, but can also offer valuable information about student ideas, including their source, their novelty to the speaker, and their construction in real time. This paper provides a review of the research in gesture analysis that is most ...

We examined the use of hand gestures while people solved spatial reasoning problem in which they had to infer motion from static diagrams (mental animation problems). In Experiment 1, participants were asked to think aloud while solving mental animation problems. They gestured on more than 90 % of problems, and most gestures ...

Sign languages have been proven to be natural languages, as capable of expressing human thoughts and emotions as traditional (spoken) languages are. The distinct visual and spatial nature of sign languages makes it difficult to develop an interfacing system as a communication medium platform for sign language users. This dissertation targets this problem by presenting some ...

Do infants explicitly recognize feelings and emotions in themselves and others? What would preverbal children say about internal states if they had the words? Investigation of infants� emotional understanding is limited by the challenge of understanding infant mental states before the onset of speech. I examined the use of symbolic gestures by normally hearing, preverbal ...

Viewing hand gestures during face-to-face communication affects speech perception and comprehension. Despite the visible role played by gesture in social interactions, relatively little is known about how the brain integrates hand gestures with co-occurring speech. Here we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and an ...

Lisa Parr is a primate scientist at the Yerkes Primate Research Center who studies how chimpanzees communicate with their facial expressions and gestures.

The gestures children use when they talk often reveal knowledge that they do not express in speech. Gesture is particularly likely to reveal these unspoken thoughts when children are on the verge of learning a new task. It thus reflects knowledge in child learners. But gesture can also play a role in changing the ...

Previous repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and neuroimaging studies showed that Broca's area is involved in the interaction between gestures and words. However, in these studies the nature of this interaction was not fully investigated; consequently, we addressed this issue in three behavioral experiments. When compared to the expression of one ...

Electroencephalogram was recorded as healthy adults viewed short videos of spontaneous discourse in which a speaker used depictive gestures to complement information expressed through speech. Event-related potentials were computed time-locked to content words in the speech stream and to subsequent related and unrelated picture probes. ...

Electroencephalogram was recorded as healthy adults viewed short videos of spontaneous discourse in which a speaker used depictive gestures to complement information expressed through speech. Event-related potentials were computed time locked to content words in the speech stream and to subsequent related and unrelated picture probes. ...

This paper presents a novel approach for generating VRML animation sequences from Sign Language notation, based on MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation. Sign Language notation, in the well-known Sign Writing system, is provided as input and is initially converted to SWML (Sign Writing Markup Language), an XML-based format that has recently been developed for the storage, indexing ...

While others have focused on gender-based language and the workplace, this research study explores gender-based language, in this case women's language, and the classroom. The study specifically examines examples of women's language and how this language affects student response in the classroom. Five variables have been identified as characteristic of women's language--politeness, ...

Three experimental designs were implemented in day nurseries in order to elicit imperative, declarative expressive, and declarative informative pointing gestures (Tomasello, Carpenter, & Liszkowski, 2007) among a population of 48 toddlers aged 15-30 months. Several features were recorded for each situation, including gesture form, ...

Understanding the fine details of children's speech and gestural characteristics helps, among other things, in creating natural computer interfaces. We analyze the acoustic, lexical/non-lexical and spoken/gestural discourse characteristics of young children's speech using audio-video data gathered using a Wizard of Oz technique from 4 to 6 year old ...

The ability to process emotional information was assessed in 42 individuals: 23 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 19 healthy elderly controls. Four tasks assessed the ability to recognize emotion in audiotaped voices, in drawings of emotional situations, and in videotaped vignettes displaying emotions in facial expression, gestures, and ...

Researchers used two behavioral prompts to compare increases in safety belt use: a Click It or Ticket prompt or a Flash-for-Life prompt. Participants were 1,822 unbuckled drivers exiting two student parking lots of a large university. Research assistants identified unbuckled drivers, flashed one of the two prompts, and recorded whether drivers buckled after the prompt and the drivers' facial ...

- textual features in unconstrained natural language (prosody being the most studied non-textual modal- ity-to-face communication, includ- ing body posture, hand gesture, facial expression, prosody, and free-hand drawing. Hand of the corpus in which no explanatory aids were pro- vided, I will investigate how to assess the similarity

Researchers used two behavioral prompts to compare increases in safety belt use: a Click It or Ticket prompt or a Flash-for-Life prompt. Participants were 1,822 unbuckled drivers exiting two student parking lots of a large university. Research assistants identified unbuckled drivers, flashed one of the two prompts, and recorded whether drivers buckled after the prompt and the drivers' facial ...

Busy music teachers try to strike a balance between everything that they want to accomplish in a lesson and the constraints of their own teaching circumstances. What is sometimes overlooked in their efforts to fulfill their expectations is how their students really see them and what they are communicating to them with their bodies. Nonverbal exchanges such as hand ...

ResearcherS used two behavioral prompts to compare increases in safety belt use: a Click It or Ticket prompt or a Flash-for-Life prompt. Participants were 1,822 unbuckled drivers exiting two student parking lots of a large university. Research assistants identified unbuckled drivers, flashed one of the two prompts, and recorded whether drivers buckled after the prompt and the drivers' facial ...

In a course organized around the development of diverse representations, no single mode of expression offers a complete picture of participants� understanding of the nature of energy. Instead, we argue, their understanding is actively constructed through the simultaneous use of a range of quite different kinds of representational resources (Goodwin, 2000; Hutchins, 1995; ...

Studies of communication between entities in virtual environments have tended to focus on the relevant technical issues and its social impact impact. An important component of human communication is the conveying of affective information via voice, facial expression and gestures and other body language. Virtual environments may be ...

When lecturing, teachers make use of both verbal and nonverbal communication. What is called teaching, therefore, involves not only the words and sentences a teacher utters and writes on the board during a lesson, but also all the hands/arms gestures, body movements, and facial expressions a teacher performs in the classroom. All of ...

This paper aims at describing the theoretical-philosophical appraoch used in the development of the qualitative research that constituted the thesis "Meanings of sensibility for being a nursing teacher-nurse in teaching and learning to be and do nursing in light of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. This approach made it possible to seek subsidies for the questions that result from life ...

Eye contact and pointing are typical gestures in order to direct another individual's attention toward a target. We previously investigated on Japanese monkeys whether joint attention ability encouraged by eye contact and pointing was associated with the imitation of human's actions. The monkeys with the joint attention skills showed the imitation of human's actions. In the ...

This paper focuses on the gesture analysis in order to compare two human gestures. The orientations and the positions of the gestures are both taken into account and the similarity rate between two gestures is calculated. In our case, the application is in obstetrics and the aim is to evaluate forceps blade ...

In a series of 3 experiments, dogs (Canis familiaris) were presented with variations of the human pointing gesture: gestures with reversed direction of movement, cross-pointing, and different arm extensions. Dogs performed at above chance level if they could see the hand (and index finger) protruding from the human body contour. If ...

Upon witnessing a causal event, do children�s gestures encode causal knowledge that a) does not appear in their linguistic descriptions or b) conveys the same information as their sentential expressions? The former use of gesture is considered supplementary; the latter is considered reinforcing. Sixty-four English-speaking children ...

They are unable to communicate through body language or gestures and cannot anticipate each other's actions through observation. By necessity, EVI and ...

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How does gesturing help children learn? Gesturing might encourage children to extract meaning implicit in their hand movements. If so, children should be sensitive to the particular movements they produce and learn accordingly. Alternatively, all that may matter is that children move their hands. If so, they should learn regardless of which movements they ...

Children, even at the one-word stage of language development, spontaneously produce gestures along with their speech, just as adults do. Although there appears to be a brief period prior to the onset of two-word speech during which gesture and speech do not form a well-integrated system, the ability to coordinate gesture and speech to ...

Perceive human intent from multiple sources of input; Keyboard & Mouse; Speech recognition; Eye-tracker; Gestures; Facial expression / lip-reading ...

anthropolo gists to focus on the study of visual communication, including nonverbal communication, kinesics

... 204.80762301955747], �] This registers the level 1 object assessment in a ... expressions, gestures, behavior patterns, and voice prosody can all be ...

While English-speaking businesspeople may have difficulty learning Japanese, they can improve communication skills with Japanese nationals by placing more emphasis on body language and etiquette. This knowledge can supplement limited verbal skills in Japanese and promote communication in all-English conversations. Body language, or ...

This paper presents a method to evaluate a gesture carried out by a resident obstetrician by comparing it to a gesture carried out by an expert obstetrician. The studied gesture is the forceps blade placement. Resident paths were recorded on a childbirth simulator while placing forceps blades instrumented with six degrees of freedom ...

Compared gestures of Chinese and American deaf children who had not been exposed to a usable conventional language model with speech of hearing children learning Mandarin or English. Found that deaf children conveyed central elements of motion events in their communications. Deaf American and Chinese children used gestures to express ...

of the tongue body and tip, the blue line to the hard palate, the green line to the velum, and the red line coordination. We find a bimodal timing pattern in which near-synchrony of velum lowering and tongue tip raising gesture and an oral closure gesture, in English, either bilabial, tongue tip, or tongue body. ...

BackgroundAccording to the body-specificity hypothesis, people with different bodily characteristics should form correspondingly different mental representations, even in highly abstract conceptual domains. In a previous test of this proposal, right- and left-handers were found to associate positive ideas like intelligence, attractiveness, and honesty with their dominant side ...

This paper presents a robust framework for online full-body gesture spotting from visual hull data. Using view-invariant pose features as observations, hidden Markov models (HMMs) are trained for gesture spotting from continuous movement data streams. Two major contributions of this paper are 1) view-invariant pose feature extraction ...

Patients suffering from severe aphasia have to rely on non-verbal means of communication to convey a message. However, to date it is not clear which patients are able to do so. Clinical experience indicates that some patients use non-verbal communication strategies like gesturing very efficiently whereas others fail to transmit semantic content by non-verbal means. Concerns ...

From very early in life, expressive behavior is multimodal, with early behavioral coordinations being refined and strengthened over time as they become used for the communication of meaning. Of these communicative coordinations, those that involve gesture and speech have received perhaps the greatest empirical attention, but little is known about the ...

The Gesture as Simulated Action (GSA) framework (Hostetter & Alibali, 2008) holds that representational gestures are produced when actions are simulated as part of thinking and speaking. Accordingly, speakers should gesture more when describing images with which they have specific physical experience than when describing images ...

Language can be understood as an embodied system, expressible as gestures. Perception of these gestures depends on the "mirror system," first discovered in monkeys, in which the same neural elements respond both when the animal makes a movement and when it perceives the same movement made by others. This system allows ...

This paper investigates one high school student's use of gestures in an interview context in which he worked on the problem of understanding graphical representations of motion. The goal of the investigation was to contribute a detailed analysis of the process of learning as it occurred over a short time period in order to contribute to the broader understanding of the role of ...

A literature review examined the potential impact of a multicultural applicant's nonverbal behavior (specifically, proxemics and kinesics) in a selection interview. Proxemics refers to the perception and use of personal and interpersonal space, which varies from culture to culture. The review indicated that in an interview situation, the chairs should be able to be moved, with the optimum distance ...

Our understanding of the bizarre sexuality of the hysteric began with Freud's discovery that its roots lay in infantile sexuality, but since then little knowledge has been added. This paper argues that the hysteric in early childhood deals with the failures of good-enough mothering and care by precocious sexual development, which is accompanied by an inability to be nurtured by any loving ...

We describe the case of a 58-years-old right-handed women suffering from an occipital-parietal lesion. The administration of a cognitively based assessment tool for limb praxis (Batterie d'Evaluation des Praxies, B.E.P., Peigneux and Van der Linden, 1998) demonstrated bilateral visuo-imitative apraxia. Gesture production was mainly characterised by spatial, errors, and ...

Gestures should play a role in second language comprehension, given their importance in conveying contextual information. In this study, the N400 and the LPC were evaluated in a task involving the observation of videos showing utterances accompanied by gestures. Students studying advanced (G-High participants) and basic German (G-Low participants) as a ...

Human communication in a natural context implies the dynamic coordination of contextual clues, paralinguistic information and literal as well as figurative language use. In the present study we constructed a paradigm with four types of video clips: literal and metaphorical expressions accompanied by congruent and incongruent gesture actions. Participants ...

Developing effective communication for the physically handicapped child involves establishing a communication system which comprises many nonspeech modes as well as intelligible speech. The child can develop communication readiness skills as the parents develop an attachment between parent and child, acknowledge the child's methods of communication other than speech, help the child interact with ...

Human communication relies on a large number of different communication mechanisms like spoken language, facial expressions, or gestures. Facial expressions and gestures are one of the main nonverbal communication mechanisms and pass large amounts of information between human dialog partners. Therefore, to allow ...

Contrasts students' presymbolic and symbolic procedures in generalizing activities. Uses the semiotic-cultural theoretical approach and focuses on the role of body, discourse, and signs when students refer to mathematical objects. Identifies types of generalizations and discusses a specific kind of rupture in the ostensive gestures and contextually based ...

, traveling by exploiting walk-like gestures has been pro- posed in many different variants, giving the user the impression of walking. For example, the walking-in-place approach exploits walk-like gestures to travel of the mind or body help us to perceive the world as stable [Wallach 1987; Bridgeman et al. 1994; Wertheim

The accuracy of information obtained in forensic interviews is critically important to credibility in the legal system. Research has shown that the way interviewers frame questions influences the accuracy of witnesses' reports. A separate body of research has shown that speakers gesture spontaneously when they talk and that these ...

Musicians often make gestures and move their bodies expressing the musical intention. This visual information provides a channel of communication to the listener of its own, separated from the auditory signal. In order to explore to what extent emotional intentions can be conveyed through musicians � movements, subjects watched and ...

Mentalizing refers to making inferences about other people's mental states, whereas visuospatial perspective taking refers to inferring other people's viewpoints. Both abilities seem vital for social functioning; yet, their exact relationship is unclear. We directly compared mentalizing and visuospatial perspective taking in nineteen adults with Asperger syndrome (AS) and fifteen control ...

Purpose: To examine gesture and motor abilities in relation to language in children with language impairment (LI). Method: Eleven children with LI (aged 2;7 to 6;1 [years;months]) and 16 typically developing (TD) children of similar chronological ages completed 2 picture narration tasks, and their language (rate of verbal utterances, mean length of utterance, and number of ...

The body awareness of 124 toddlers with mental retardation and of 124 children developing normally matched to them on age and gender was examined. Twenty-nine of the children with mental retardation were diagnosed as Down syndrome (DS). The 'Pointing and Naming' Test of Berg�s and L�zine [Berg�s, J., & L�zine, I. (1978). Test d'imitation de gestes [Imitation test ...

and recognize eye gestures. In our user study, human participants avert their gaze (i.e. with "look-taking, Human-computer interaction 1. INTRODUCTION In face to face interaction, eye gaze is known to perceive similar displays as expressed by a human user. It has long been known that eye gaze is a direct

sounds and new synthesis engines robust enough to reconstruct violin sounds based on physical gesture with the right hand, and as it is the smallest instrument in its family, the physical interface of the violin to execute quick and subtle real-time adjustments in physical gestures and in the forces applied to a violin

The use of gesture as a natural interface plays an utmost important role for achieving intelligent Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Human gestures include different components of visual actions such as motion of hands, facial expression, and torso, to convey meaning. So far, in the field of gesture recognition, ...

For social species nonverbal communication by assessment of emotion expression is crucial for building up and maintaining social structures. In humans, body language not only includes gestures but also a variety of facial expressions. Negative associated facial expressions, e.g. disgust, fear, ...

Communication is important to all people. Through gestures, body language, writing, facial expressions, speech, and other means, people are able to share their thoughts and ideas, build relationships, and express their needs. When they cannot communicate, their behavior, learning, and sociability can all suffer. ...

Werghi,N. Xiao,Y. The 5th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2002, Washington, DC IEEE Computer Society Press

of silhouette images of a pose is mainly af- fected by three factors: body model of the subject (dif- ferent about the camera system. The influence of body model to the images are comparatively small, and we can. Qian. Binocular dance pose recognition and body orientation estimation via multilinear analysis

Mathematical sketching is a pen-based, gestural interaction paradigm for mathematics problem solving. It derives from the familiar pencil-and-paper process of drawing supporting diagrams to facilitate the formulation of mathematical expressions; however, with mathematical sketching, users can also leverage their physical intuition by watching their ...

Nineteen people with Asperger syndrome (AS)/High-Functioning Autism (HFA) (ages 7-15) were tested on imitation of two types of meaningless gesture: hand postures and finger positions. The individuals with AS/HFA achieved lower scores in the imitation of both hand and finger positions relative to a matched neurotypical group. The between-group difference was primarily accounted ...

Measurement of human motion is widely required for various applications, and a significant part of this task is to identify motion in the process of human motion recognition. There are several application purposes of doing this research such as in surveillance, entertainment, medical treatment and traffic applications as user interfaces that require the recognition of different parts of human ...

This panel presentation will exhibit artwork developed in CAVEs and discuss how art methodologies enhance the science of VR through collaboration, interaction and aesthetics. Artists and scientists work alongside one another to expand scientific research and artistic expression and are motivated by exhibiting collaborative virtual environments. Looking towards the arts, such ...

Synchronization of speech, facial expressions and body gestures is one of the most critical problems in realistic avatar animation in virtual environments. In this paper, we address this problem by proposing a new high-level animation language to describe avatar animation. The Avatar Markup Language (AML), based on XML, encapsulates ...

Like the best-laid schemes of mice and men, the best-rehearsed speeches go oft astray. No amount of preparation can counter an audience's perception that the speaker is calculating or insincere. Why do so many managers have trouble communicating authenticity to their listeners? Morgan, a communications coach for more than two decades, offers advice for overcoming this difficulty. Recent brain ...

The literature on symbolic forms of communication was reviewed, and an experimental program was designed to teach a single set of vocabulary to a group of four institutionalized profoundly retarded blind/mute adults through the use of gestures. Literature about deaf/blind persons suggested the use of coactive movement techniques and facilitation of body ...

Heterospecific cues, such as gaze direction and body position, may be an important source of information that an animal can use to infer the location of resources like food. The use of heterospecific cues has been largely investigated using primates, dogs, and other mammals; less is known about whether birds can also use heterospecific gestures. We tested ...

Background: Electropalatographic investigations have revealed that a proportion of children with articulation/phonological disorders exhibit undifferentiated lingual gestures, whereby the whole of the tongue contacts the palate simultaneously during lingual consonant production. These undifferentiated lingual gestures have been interpreted to reflect a ...

This study describes uptake of augmentative and alternative communication systems by adults with intellectual disabilities; their ability to self-report at interview; differences in self-reported loneliness experiences by communication mode; and predictors of loneliness. We analyzed National Core Indicators data from 26 US states involving over 13,000 service users grouped by primary means of ...

Patients with degenerative dementia often show language disorders, but little is known about their verbal (VC) and non-verbal communication (NVC). Our aim was to analyse VC and NVC in patients with standard criteria of mild-moderately severe dementia (MMSE ?14/30) resulting from Alzheimer's disease (AD; 29 cases), behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia (FTD; 16), or dementia with Lewy ...

the verbal message, regulate interactions or substitute for the verbal message (especially if it is blocked, include all facial displays except explicit verbal and emotional displays (visemes or expressions to physiological functions. While verbal and emotional displays may be regarded as the explicit, perhaps even

The visual component of conversational media such as video-conferencing systems communicates important non-verbal information such as facial expressions, gestures, posture and gaze. Unlike the other cues, selective gaze depends critically on the configura...

graphics, tools for expressive character animation. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Reconstruction and Animation of Specific Speakers' Gesturing Styles", ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2008: How to economically capture timing and form", Journal on Language Resources and Evaluation - Special

Celebrating Interdependence (pp. 344-350). ISO (1998). ISO 9241-11:1998 (F) : Exigences ergonomiques pour context. Situational validity. Usability qualifies user-system interaction in a context of use (ISO, 1998

and olfactory senses. Visual expressions are easy to model because gestures can be directed at individual. Smells are not used in conscious communication. A gorilla would be able to smell other gorillas, ideally recognising the smell, over a certain distance (depending upon the weather and vegetation) and gain an idea

In seven cultures there are the same facial expressions of emotion. It appears that the same muscular movements may be related to the same emotions for all mankind. Most gestures are culturally specific, although there are a few which are multi-cultural. ...

the spatiotemporal expression as well as semantic aspects of co-verbal gestures. In the first study subjects were display/ movement detection sensors planning multimodal utterance speech generation interpretat of the verbal utterance due to the fact that a recognizable contrastive stress in speech serves

Recognizing hand gestures from the video sequence acquired by a dynamic camera could be a useful interface between humans and mobile robots. We develop a state based approach to extract and recognize hand gestures from moving camera images. We improved Human-Following Local Coordinate (HFLC) System, a very simple and stable method for extracting hand ...

-hull of the human body posture. Using an atom-based description of postures increases tremendously the set from image segmentation error or self-occlusion of human body will be classified as atom postures of Southern California Abstract We present a method for describing arbitrary human posture as a combination

This paper traces body lines in feminist poststructural research by identifying the conditions under which research into the lived body can be brought into discursive relation with contemporary theoretical formulations of the body. It begins by identifying the erasure of the corporeal body in the somatophobia of ...

We examined whether and how deictic gestures and words influence each other when the content of the gesture was congruent or incongruent with that of the simultaneously produced word. Two experiments were carried out. In Experiment 1, the participants read aloud the deictic word 'QUA' ('here') or 'LA" ('there'), printed on a token placed near to or far ...

Patients with ideomotor apraxia (IM) are frequently more impaired in the production and imitation of object-related (transitive) than non-object-related, symbolic (intransitive) gestures, but reasons for this dissociation, and its anatomical underpinnings, remain unclear. Our theoretical model of praxis (Buxbaum, 2001) postulates that left inferior parietal lobe (IPL) ...

Symbolic gestures, such as pantomimes that signify actions (e.g., threading a needle) or emblems that facilitate social transactions (e.g., finger to lips indicating "be quiet"), play an important role in human communication. They are autonomous, can fully take the place of words, and function as complete utterances in their own right. The relationship between these ...

Symbolic gestures, such as pantomimes that signify actions (e.g., threading a needle) or emblems that facilitate social transactions (e.g., finger to lips indicating �be quiet�), play an important role in human communication. They are autonomous, can fully take the place of words, and function as complete utterances in their own right. The relationship between these ...

Cognitive neuroscientists have contributed to the understanding of imitation according to their expertise. Neuropsychologists first established over a century ago that lesions to the left hemisphere of right-handed individuals lead to a dramatic reduction of their ability to imitate gestures. In contrast, after frontal lobe damage, patients may experience severe difficulties ...

The perception form of the body language behaviours of the session chairs by disputants affects the efficiency of the process. Therefore, it is important to determine the effects of the mimic, gesture, physical appearance and tonality and accent of the chairs on disputants. That research was conducted to clarify how the disputants perceive the ...