BACKGROUND communicative functions used by language therapists and patients. AIM to analyze the communicative functions used by language therapists and patients of the autistic spectrum. METHOD the communicative functions expressed by six therapists in interaction with six patients each were analyzed, constituting 36 profiles of communicative functions expressed by the dyad therapist-patien...

Human hand gestures provide the most important mean for non-verbal interaction among people. They range from simple manipulative gestures that are used to point at and move objects around to more complex communicative ones that express our feelings and allow us to communicate with others. Migrating the natural means that human employ to communicate with each other such as gestures, into Human-C...

Human communicative competence is based on the ability to process a specific class of mental states, namely, communicative intention. The present fMRI study aims to analyze whether intention processing in communication is affected by the expressive means through which a communicative intention is conveyed, that is, the linguistic or extralinguistic gestural means. Combined factorial and conjunc...

Humans are biased toward social interaction. Behaviorally, this bias is evident in the rapid effects that self-relevant communicative signals have on attention and perceptual systems. The processing of communicative cues recruits a wide network of brain regions, including mentalizing systems. Relatively less work, however, has examined the timing of the processing of self-relevant communicative...

Personalized contents have been getting more attention from industry and academia due to its effective communicative role in product advertisements. However, there exist potential threats to the customer’s privacy in conventional approaches where a data server containing customer profiles is employed or the customer profiles is required to be sent over the public network. To address this, this ...

We provide an analysis of hold out and giving (Ho&G) behaviours in pre-linguistic infants, and investigate their relationship with index finger pointing. The frequency of Ho&Gs at 10 and 11 months along with the length of the following social interaction correlated with index finger pointing at 12 months. We conclude that Ho&Gs are a precursor to index finger pointing and that this provides sup...

This paper describes our attempt to build a communicative medium for capturing and re-experiencing conversations situated in the real space. We first show a system that captures and interprets conversation scenes by ubiquitous sensors. Based on the system, we present three approaches to visualise and facilitate users to access the extracted conversation scenes, i.e., chronological summarisation...

This paper will outline current work on the generation of personalised health education materials, focusing on the communicative goals involved, how these relate to changes of cognitive attititude, and on the characteristics of the user that should a ect the selection of content of generated material. We make some suggestions concerning the adequacy of existing approaches to text planning. As t...

Abstrae%: A framework for the description of syntactic structures of free word order languages is proposed, based on combination of intuitions underlying immediate constituent description, dependency description and communicative dynamism. The combined approach is compared to its sources and shown superior in descriptive power, esp. in the area of free intermixing of (any number of) adjuncts wi...