NESPOLE! is a EU/NSF jointly funded project exploring multilingual (speech-to-speech translation) and multimodal communication in e-services. The current system allows users speaking different languages (English, French, German and Italian) to interact on the tourism domain through the Internet using thin terminals (PCs with sound and video cards and H323 video-conferencing software). Web pages...

Given the growing interest in developing embodied virtual agents with multimodal communication and emotional expression abilities, the issue of user’s involvement is a relevant topic to take into account in determining how to assess and interpret the quality of user-agent affective interaction. Main goal of this paper is the definition of a methodology for the analysis of user-agent interaction...

Human multimodal communication can be said to serve two main purposes: information transfer and social influence. In this paper, I argue that different components of multimodal signals play different roles in the processes of information transfer and social influence. Although the symbolic components of communication (e.g., verbal and denotative signals) are well suited to transfer conceptual i...

Human communication is based on a dynamic information exchange of the communication channels facial expressions, prosody, and speech content. This fMRI study elucidated the impact of multimodal emotion processing and the specific contribution of each channel on behavioral empathy and its prerequisites. Ninety-six video clips displaying actors who told self-related stories were presented to 27 h...

Part I Thought, Communication, and Actions 1 Sharing Representations and Creating Chances through Cognitive Niche Construction. The Role of Affordances and Abduction Lorenzo Magnani and Emanuele Bardone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Discovering and Communicating through Multimodal Abduction Lorenzo Magnani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

backround: we aimed to evaluate analgesic efficacy, opioid-sparing, and opioid-related adverse effects of intravenous paracetamol and intravenous dexketoprofen trometamol in combination with iv morphine after total abdominal hysterectomy. materials and methods: sixty american society of anesthesiologist physical status classification i-ii patients scheduled for total abdominal hysterectomy were...

This research investigates the use of multimodal metaphors to communicate information in the interface of e-learning application in order to reduce the visual communication by incorporating auditory stimuli. Three experimental studies conducted to investigate the effect of using multimodal metaphors in e-learning applications. The first experiment introduced an empirical study to investigate th...

This paper presented a multimodal discourse analysis of some visual images in the political rally discourse of 2011 electioneering campaigns in Southwestern Nigeria. The data comprised purposively selected political visual artefacts from political rallies across the six Southwestern States in Nigeria (Osun, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti, Ogun, and Lagos). The data were analyzed using Halliday’s (1985) syste...

background complications and postoperative pain are major care problems that can affect the quality of health care plan. objectives according to the use of multimodal therapy the current study aimed to compare the efficacy of gabapentin and celecoxib in pain management and complications after laminectomy at ilam university of medical sciences, ilam, iran, in 2015. patients and methods in this r...