Nonverbal communication, also known as body language, is an important form of communication. Nonverbal behaviors such as posture, eye contact, and gestures send strong messages. In regard to nonverbal communication, eye contact is one of the most important forms that an individual can use. However, lack of eye contact occurs when we use video conferencing system. The disparity between locations...

Believable nonverbal behaviors for embodied conversational agents (ECA) can create a more immersive experience for users and improve the effectiveness of communication. This paper describes a nonverbal behavior generator that analyzes the syntactic and semantic structure of the surface text as well as the affective state of the ECA and annotates the surface text with appropriate nonverbal behav...

The primary objective of this position paper is to assess the theoretical and empirical support that exists for the Mayo Clinic view of motor speech disorders in general, and for oromotor, nonverbal tasks as a window to speech production processes in particular. Literature both in support of and against the Mayo clinic view and the associated use of oromotor, nonverbal tasks, is reviewed, along...

N onverbal behavior is arguably one of the most powerful methods of communication; it conveys important information about a person’s likes and dislikes, emotions, personal characteristics, and relationships (e.g., intimacy, dominance, trust, similarity). Whereas no one would be surprised that verbal communication of this type of information has a cognitive basis, messages conveyed and received ...

OBJECTIVE The aims of the present study was to investigate communication impairments in a Norwegian sample of children with ADHD and children with Asperger syndrome (AS) and to explore whether children with ADHD can be differentiated from children with AS in terms of their language profiles on the Norwegian adaptation of the Children's Communication Checklist Second Edition (CCC-2). METHOD Th...

We sought to examine concurrent and longitudinal associations between sensory response patterns (i.e., hyperresponsiveness, hyporesponsiveness, and sensory seeking) and verbal status of young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as a potential factor influencing the development of verbal communication. Seventy-nine children with ASD (verbal, n = 29; nonverbal, n = 50) were assessed usin...

The nonverbal communication can be used as a communication means between avatars having no common language in the Internet. Recently the sign language communication[1] system between avatars of different languages has been investigated as a means of overcoming the linguistic barrier. In this paper, we proposed an intelligent communications method, where sets of animations parameters such as the...

OBJECTIVE Compare the non-verbal communication of children before and during interaction with clowns and compare their vital signs before and after this interaction. METHODS Uncontrolled, intervention, cross-sectional, quantitative study with children admitted to a public university hospital. The intervention was performed by medical students dressed as clowns and included magic tricks, juggl...

Among the many possibilities of automation enabled by multi-sensor environments several of which are discussed in this Handbook one particularly relevant is the analysis of social interaction in the workplace, and more specifically, of conversational group interaction. Group conversations are ubiquitous, and represent a fundamental means through which ideas are discussed, progress is reported, ...