The article is devoted to the development of level communicative competence future doctors and peculiarities professional communication with patients. basis work were questions determining speech behavior a doctor in one most difficult situations — situation delivering bad news. Based on material real recordings doctors’ speech, analysis risky steps between patient carried out, effective ways i...

In this paper I describe ongoing research that seeks to provide a common framework for the generation and interpretation of spontaneous gesture in the context of speech. I present a testbed for this framework in the form of a program that generates speech, gesture, and facial expression from underlying rules specifying (a) what speech and gesture are generated on the basis of a given communicat...

BACKGROUND Issues concerning language development and their relation with social cognitive aspects give direction to the clinical practice when assisting the population with the diagnosis within the autistic spectrum. The deficits or differences in this development can result in different ways of analyzing and counseling this population. Adolescence becomes a question mark in this analysis sinc...

PURPOSE To examine the influence of sound immersion techniques and speech production tasks on speech adaptation in noise. METHOD In Experiment 1, we compared the modification of speakers' perception and speech production in noise when noise is played into headphones (with and without additional self-monitoring feedback) or over loudspeakers. We also examined how this sound immersion effect de...

This paper deals with the signals that are used to express hesitation and uncertainty in conversational interactions. It studies the relation between gesturing, body posture, facial expressions, and speech, and draws conclusions of their role and function in the interpretation and coordination of interaction with respect to the basic enablements of communication. Dialogues are assumed to be coo...

DEIRA is a virtual agent commenting on virtual horse races in real time. DEIRA analyses the state of the race, acts emotionally and comments about the situation in a believable and engaging way, using synthesized speech and facial expressions. In this paper we discuss the challenges, explain the computational models for the cognitive, emotional and communicative behavior, and account on impleme...

The presence of gesture during speech has been shown to impact perception, comprehension, learning, and memory in normal adults and typically developing children. In neurotypical individuals, the impact of viewing co-speech gestures representing an object and/or action (i.e., iconic gesture) or speech rhythm (i.e., beat gesture) has also been observed at the neural level. Yet, despite growing e...

We propose an approach to reasoning about conversation protocols within the framework of a logic-based agent language. We show how to embed a theory of communicative actions in the framework of a modal logic of action and beliefs, to specify software agents that, situated in a multi-agent environment, can interact with one another by a speech act based communication mechanism. Agents have their...