Humans typically combine linguistic and nonlinguistic information to comprehend emotions. We adopted an emotion identification Stroop task to investigate how different channels interact in emotion communication. In experiment 1, synonyms of "happy" and "sad" were spoken with happy and sad prosody. Participants had more difficulty ignoring prosody than ignoring verbal content. In experiment 2, s...

Human communication and interaction is comprised of a wide range of verbal and non-verbal cues. Further adoption of novel tele-communication methods such as email, chat, instant messaging (IM), mobile phone SMS text messaging, and videoconferencing; have augmented our mediated interaction abilities. However, a significant (and important) amount of human expression and interaction information is...

This study aimed to be the first measure non-verbal communication in 25 eating disorder (ED) and non-ED control participants during a naturalistic social interaction incorporating positive, negative neutrally-valenced topics. The hypothesis, that ED would show significantly reduced facial emotional expression than controls, was not supported. Supporting second hypothesis of between-group differ...

Communication among humans consists of both verbal and non components. The latter may sometimes express concepts or ideas not conveyable by the former. This is also true in Software Engineering. paper first analyses theoretically role communication software development teams, using framework provided distributed cognition as a conceptual palette point reference. Then, it presents an empirical i...

Objectives: Achieving optimal outcomes in deaf children’s communication skills depends on the availability of early specialized high-quality intervention services. Early intervention services through teletechnology could respond to this need. The development of teletechnology has led to the creation of new formats for family-centered services. Such measures could address the hearing, speech, an...