In the present study, we tested the effects of specific dimensions of perceived teaching behaviors on students' self-determined motivation in physical education. In accordance with the tenets of self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985, 2000), we expected the psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness would mediate these effects. Secondary school students (N=498) ages 12-...

The relations we have with others influence in a very subtle way our body gestures. These are cues that are used in an interaction in an unconscious process to communicate and understand an attitude. Depending on the gestures and facial signals one is displaying, a social attitude can be perceived. In this paper, we propose to model socio-emotional agents and how they can express such an attitu...

The creation of conversational agents capable of expressive and communicative behaviors requires to define the relationship between the agent’s communicative intentions and how these intentions are expressed in a coordinated verbal and nonverbal message. Suppose an agent S (a Sender) has the goal of communicating something to an interlocutor A (Addressee) in a particular situation and context; ...

Conversations are characterized by an interactional synchrony between verbal and nonverbal behaviors [Kendon, A. (1970). Movement coordination in social interaction: some examples described. Acta Psychologica, 32(2), 101–125]. A subset of these contingent conversational behaviors is direct mimicry. During face to face interaction, people who mimic the verbal [Giles, H., Coupland, J., & Coupland...

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The study of nonverbal behavior has captured the imagination and interest of researchers across a number of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, ethology, and linguistics to name but a few. At least since Darwin’s 1872 publication of The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals (see also Ekman 1998), the study of nonverbal behavior has been particularly central to researc...

Unlike most research, which has primarily examined the players’ interest in or attitude toward game-based learning through questionnaires, the purpose of this empirical study is to explore students’ engagement patterns by qualitative observation and sequential analysis to visualize and better understand their game-based learning process. We studied the sequential behaviors of 34 students (17 ma...

During the last half of the twentieth century, psychologists and anthropologists have studied proxemics, or spacing behavior, among people in many contexts. As we enter the twenty-Žrst century, immersive virtual environment technology promises new experimental venues in which researchers can study proxemics. Immersive virtual environments provide realistic and compelling experimental settings w...