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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"body language"”.
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Body Language: Pain in Victorian Literature
“Body Language: Pain in Victorian Literature” argues that Victorian authors use the readable sign system of the body and pain to emphasize their characters’ physical features to the reader. As characters physically manifest emotions or experience violence, their appearances change, and these …
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Exploring the effects of interviewer body language availability during a videoconference behavioral health interview
… sought to explore whether an interviewer’s body language availability would have any effects on participants’ interactional engagement levels, positivity-negativity of interaction, and their nonverbal synchrony. Six participants answered questions about their well-being during a Zoom …
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Prompting safety-belt use with a positive versus negative prompt: Comparative impact on the target behavior and relevant body language
Two studies were conducted to compare the efficacy of two behavioral prompts in increasing safety-belt use. Two approaches were used in both studies. The first approach involved showing a sign with the message, "Please Buckle Up, I Care" to unbuckled drivers leaving a parking lot; the second …
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Development of an Emotion Recognition Classifier from Body Language Using Deep Learning for the Children with Autism to Help Identifying Human Emotions
… model to recognize emotions from a person’s body language. This research aims to develop an emotion recognition classifier for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to help recognize emotions in social interaction. It classifies six universal emotions- “anger,” “sad,” “happy,” …
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An In-depth study into behavioural auditing - its use in giving indication of potential fraud
… led to a consideration of the interpretation of body language and its potential use by auditors. As with behavioural auditing in general, the use of body language is discussed in audit textbooks, but it appears that little work has been done to establish how it can be used by auditors. Therefore, …
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The convergence of psychopathy, self-rated vulnerability, and other-rated vulnerability
… and the fact that victims display different body language suggests that they may be sending inadvertent signals to their own vulnerability (e.g. Murzynski & Degelman, 1996). Body language has also be en linked with s e l f identification as a victim (Wheeler et aI., 2009), and …
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Medium Access Control and Networking Protocols for the Intra-Body Network
… can easily pick up signals. The Intra-Body Network (IBNet) proposes a novel communication model for biomedical sensor networks. It seeks the convenience of wireless communication while avoiding interference and privacy concerns associated with RF. IBNet's solution is to utilize a …
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Alternative Creatures for an Alternative Space: a Process of Evolution.
<p>This thesis examines the nature of the way body language and movement is perceived in the context of abstracted sculptures. The way these abstracted sculptures become creatures and the evolution thereof. It also explores the ways that concepts are altered in response to different media, evolving …
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Social Behavior and Cognitive Bias in the Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris)
… designed to measure three dimensions of canine body language during interactions with conspecifics: Aggression, Arousal, and Boldness. Results indicate that these three dimensions are correlated, with body language identified as higher arousal associated with being more aggressive and more …
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Schemata: The Language of the Body in Middle Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts
<p>Representations of body language add a vital layer of meaning to middle Byzantine figural art, and they deserve systematic scholarly attention. My dissertation offers a method for unpicking the meanings of individual movements, and, more importantly, it explores the underlying cultural concerns …
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AI for an open world game
… simulations. Especially when it comes to body language, unique personalities and interactions with other actors. Another big part of the simulation involves making all behavior dependant on in-game time.
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Gesture: nonverbal communication between teachers and students
… messages to their class using gestures, body language, tone and physical body placement. Research shows that nonverbal messages can be very powerful tools with students. Research has also shown that nonverbal gestures paired with verbal communication enhance comprehension. This study's …
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Einfühlung | Empathy
… representations of realistic facial expression, body language, and various contextual clues. My pieces are based on individuals I know personally and inspired by emotional states they have experienced viscerally. Through sharing these figures, which stand in for the people we meet in our everyday …
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Technology Reading Programs and Their Impact on Listening Comprehension
… Results suggest that student engaging student body language, specific program features and student preference of reading program impacted listening comprehension results. Additional research should be conducted to determine benefits of specific reading programs for student literacy learning. …
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A reactive behavioral system for the intelligent room
… to respond to implicit user commands, such as body language, behavior, and context, just as another human would. This thesis presents ReBa, a context-aware system to provide the IE with this type of complex behavior, in reaction to user activity.
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Facial Expression Intelligence Scale (FEIS): Recognizing and Interpreting Facial Expressions and Implications for Consumer Behavior
… which we combine with the spoken word, body language, past experience, and the context of the situation to form judgments. Facial expressions serve as pieces of information we use to understand what another person is thinking, saying, or feeling. While there is strong support for the …
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Using asynchronous video interviews to enhance self-awareness of video communication skills in a community college setting
… skills, revealed experienced difficulties using body language and eye contact, showed low confidence levels recording self-facing videos, and had a preference for anonymous peer assessment. There was also a positive relationship between cognitive and affective attitudes towards asynchronous video …
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Power and Perfection in Karen Finley's <em>The Constant State of Desire</em>: Creating a New Discourse.
… merits attention because it acknowledges modern language's inability to represent the suffering of victims and creates awareness of our personal involvement in constructing gendered identities. Finley expresses her abhorrence of the desire for power and perfection by asserting that power is …
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The Role of Experience in the Human Perception of Emotion in Dogs
… emotion in dogs using the dogs' visual signals (body language). First, a set of 30 short videos of dogs was assembled, and a panel of eight behavioral experts provided ratings and categorizations of the depicted dogs' emotions. Based on the emotional valence and level of agreement in their …
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