Social interaction is a fundamental aspect of human life and is also a key research area in psychology and cognitive science. Social psychologists have been researching the dimensions of social interaction for decades and found out that a variety of social communicative cues strongly determine social behavior and interaction outcomes. Many of these cues are consciously produced, in the form of ...

Abstract: Communication is an important element in the life of society. In everyday, people communicate verbally using language or words, but not all humans are able to interact only verbal communication. Humans who less than perfect, such as with mental disability, find it difficult receive messages language. Mental disability a and intellectual disorder below average. As Karangpatihan Village...

Hand gestures are a kind of nonverbal communication in which visible bodily actions used to communicate important messages. Recently, hand gesture recognition has received significant attention from the research community for various applications, including advanced driver assistance systems, prosthetic, and robotic control. Therefore, accurate fast classification is required. In this research,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered life dramatically, including grieving practices. This study examines how people grieved death when they were unable to engage in traditional mourning rituals. Participants shared ways their experiences with grief affected by the through themes of (1) physical isolation, feeling together while apart, and, (2) challenges management, like lack nonverbal communicat...

W examine how firms can create word-of-mouth peer influence and social contagion by designing viral features into their products and marketing campaigns. To econometrically identify the effectiveness of different viral features in creating social contagion, we designed and conducted a randomized field experiment involving the 1.4 million friends of 9,687 experimental users on Facebook.com. We f...

Twitter is a popular microblogging site where users can easily use mobile phones or desktop machines to generate short messages to be shared with others in realtime. Twitter has seen heavy usage in many recent international events including Japan earthquake, Iran election, etc. In such events, many tweets may become viral for different reasons. In this paper, we study the virality of socio-poli...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether provision of vaccine-health-literacy-promoting information in text message vaccine reminders improves receipt and timeliness of the second dose of influenza vaccine within a season for children in need of 2 doses. METHODS During the 2012-2013 season, families of eligible 6-month through 8-year-old children were recruited at the time of their first influenza vacc...

We experimentally study the effect of mode digital communication on emergence trust in a principal-agent relationship. consider three modes that differ capacity to transmit nonverbal content: plain text, audio, and video. Communication is pre-play, one-way, unrestricted, but its verbal content homogenized across treatments. Overall, both audio video messages have positive (and similar) as compa...

In studies of media effects, differences in results are predicted based on the rationale that different media have differential ability to transmit nonverbal communication. We suggest that while this rationale has validity, it is not complete, and that several other factors must be present before media effects will be observed. In this article, we argue that the situational characteristics of t...

Both face-to-face communication and communication in online environments convey information beyond the actual verbal message. In a traditional face-to-face conversation, paralanguage, or the ancillary meaningand emotion-laden aspects of speech that are not actual verbal prose, gives contextual information that allows interactors to more appropriately understand the message being conveyed. In th...