• To become familiar with central elements of patient–physician communication • To understand how these communication styles and behaviors contribute to the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered medical care • To understand how various types of communication can influence patients’ satisfaction, health behaviors, and health outcomes • To learn about specific communication strategies, inclu...

Rapport, the feeling of being "in sync" with your conversational partners, is argued to underlie many desirable social effects. By generating proper verbal and nonverbal behaviors, virtual humans have been seen to create rapport during interactions with human users. In this paper, we introduce our approach to creating rapport following Tickle-Degnen and Rosenberg’s threefactor (positivity, mutu...

This study investigated nonverbal approach and avoidance behaviors exhibited by 30 families with a target child between 7 and 16 years old during a family interaction task. It was hypothesized that avoidance in the form of shame and contempt would be displayed more frequently by early and mid-adolescents than by younger pre-adolescents. It was also expected that approach behaviors would not dif...

In human conversation, verbal and nonverbal behaviors are coordinated by the interlocutors on the fly. To participate in this, artificial conversational agents must be able to create, adopt, and adjust behaviors flexibly and autonomously. We present a novel approach to learning behavioral patterns online, Ordered Means Models (OMMs), that meets the demands of dynamic behavior coordination in in...

Autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) such as Rett syndrome and Asperger syndromeare enigmatic and complex neurodevelopmental disorders, thought to have originated inparticular interactions of genetic and environmental factors. Despite the extensive research,exact mechanism of pathogenesis is not still completely understood. ASDs are characterizedby deficits and abnormalities in communica...

Four studies investigated the reliability and validity of thin slices of nonverbal behavior from social interactions including (a) how well individual slices of a given behavior predict other slices in the same interaction; (b) how well a slice of a given behavior represents the entirety of that behavior within an interaction; (c) how long a slice is necessary to sufficiently represent the enti...

Interpersonal stances are expressed by non-verbal behaviors on a variety of different modalities. The perception of these behaviors is influenced by the context of the interaction, how they are sequenced with other behaviors from the same person and behaviors from other interactants. In this paper, we introduce a framework considering the expressions of stances on different layers during an int...

Our first impressions of the people we meet are subject considerable interest, academic, and nonacademic. Such initial estimates anotherâ??s personality (e.g., their sociality or agreeableness) vital, since they enable us to predict outcomes interactions can trust them?). Nonverbal behaviors a key medium through which is expressed detected. The character reliability these expression detection p...