Current techniques of repeated suicide risk assessment are not reliably predictive, and research into new methods is needed. The judgment of clinicians relies partly on nonverbal signs such as facial expressions. If differences in patients and/or interviewer's facial expressions appeared between subjects who were to make subsequent attempts (Repeaters) and those who were not (NonRepeaters), thi...

Understanding human emotions and their nonverbal messages is one of the most necessary and important skills for making the next generation of human-computer interfaces (HCI) easier, more natural and effective. Indeed, the first step toward an automatic emotion sensitive human-computer system having the ability to automatically detect users’ nonverbal signals is the development of an accurate an...

Nonverbal behavior and sensitivity to a relationship partner’s nonverbal behavior importantly influence the quality of interpersonal interactions and relationships, including attachment relationships. The abilities to encode, or express, and to decode, or understand, nonverbal cues are crucial to effective communication of emotions and are associated with social adjustment and relationship sati...

The paper presents recent technologies and basic research paradigms for the investigation of social presence effects of nonverbal behaviour in humancomputer-interaction (HCI) and computer-mediated-communication.(CMC). An experimental platform for the coding, editing and experimental computeranimation of human movement behaviour is introduced, which can serve for the experimental variation and o...

P erceiving others and oneself in terms of group identity influences the way people interact with others. When group memberships are salient, interactions are often guided by social roles (Eagly & Wood, 1999). To the extent that people rely on category-based, rather than individual-based, processing in their interaction, their perceptions will be influenced by group stereotypes and attitudes th...

Socially interactive robot needs the same behaviors and capabilities of human to be accepted as a member in human society. The environment, in which this robot should operate, is the human daily life. The interaction capabilities of current robots are still limited due to complex inter-human interaction system. Humans usually use different types of verbal and nonverbal cues in their communicati...

For many application areas, where a task is most naturally represented by talking or where standard input devices are difficult to use or not available at all, virtual characters can be well suited as an intuitive man-machineinterface due to their inherent ability to simulate verbal as well as nonverbal communicative behavior. This type of interface is made possible with the help of multimodal ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical usefulness of informal conversation as a tool for determining ability to communicate potential regardless of modality (verbal or nonverbal). Four individuals with aphasia (two non-fluent and two fluent) and four non-impaired individuals participated in this study. Selected segments of conversational discourse were analyzed for communicat...