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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"nonverbal cues"”.
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Understanding the embodied teacher : nonverbal cues for sociable robot learning
… My research seeks to identify simple, non-verbal cues that human teachers naturally provide that are useful for directing the attention of robot learners. I conducted two novel studies that examined the use of embodied cues in human task learning and teaching behavior. These studies motivated the …
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An Examination of Nonverbal Cues Used By University Professors When Delivering Instruction in a Two-Way Video Classroom
… via two-way video. Research has established that nonverbal cues exist and play a significant role in classroom instruction (Arnold & Roach, 1989; Cyrs, Conway, Shonk, & Jones, 1997; Rosenthal & Jacobson, 1968). The growing popularity of two-way video and the fundamental concepts of communication, …
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Channel Choice as a Relational Message
… frames. Relational meaning is often sent through nonverbal cues, which are important sources of social meaning and exist in many forms. This study addressed multiple components of the relational meaning process. First, it explored channel selection as a potential nonverbal cue that can carry …
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An Evaluation of Grades 10 and 11 English First Additional Language Learners’ Interpretation of Verbal and Nonverbal Cues in Cartoons: A Case Study of the Sibasa Circuit, Limpopo Province
… learners often struggle to interpret verbal and nonverbal cues in visual texts, affecting comprehension and engagement. This study aimed to evaluate the interpretative repertoire of Grade 10 and 11 learners regarding verbal and nonverbal cues in cartoons, focusing on selected English First …
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Activity-Based Target Acquisition Methods for Use in Urban Environments
… must familiarize themselves with behavioral cues that implicate threatening individuals. This study elicited expert strategies regarding how to use nonverbal cues to detect a threat and evaluated the best medium for distinguishing a threat from a non-threat to develop a training guide of …
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An Analysis of a Nonverbal Training Program's Effect Upon Business Communications Students' Sensitivity to Nonverbal Facial Expressions
… to determine if a specific training program in nonverbal facial communication for business communications students affects their sensitivity to nonverbal facial cues. A secondary problem was to determine if there was a difference between those groups trained in nonverbal facial communication and …
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Social functioning in older adults with high levels of off-target verbosity
… be associated with diminished responsiveness to nonverbal cues signaling boredom was not supported, although higher levels of OTV were associated with increased responsiveness to nonverbal cues signaling interest. Orv was not associated with the social skills questionnaires of Emotional Control, …
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The Effect of Face-to-Face versus Computer-Mediated Communication on Interpersonal Outcomes in Getting-Acquainted Situations
… is often considered subpar due to the lack of nonverbal cues that can be expressed. Two studies were designed to 1) compare the effect of FtF and CMC platform self-disclosures on closeness and liking in zero-acquaintance situations and 2) explore mediators that might explain why FtF and CMC …
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Does Motion Parallax Improve Communication Efficiency in Video Chats?
… in day-to-day life, including aiding with nonverbal cues such as pointing or turning one’s head. This study examines whether adding motion parallax to video chat with avatars can enhance communication efficiency, as indicated by performance on an instruction task. Many nonverbal cues like …
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Implicit Bias in a Police Drama: An Analysis of S.W.A.T.
… unit. This study will observe verbal and nonverbal cues exhibited within the first 10 episodes of the first season that signify implicit biases.
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Suspicious or autistic? evaluating responses to a behavioral analysis interview
… or truthfulness. Research indicates these cues are unreliable and trained officers are no better than chance at detecting deception (Kassin, Meissner & Norwick, 2005; Meissner & Kassin, 2002). This study aimed to examine how innocent autistic individuals’ response to the BAI in a mock arson …
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The effects of computer-mediated and face-to-face affinity-seeking on out-of-class communication
… at gaining affinity by using appropriate nonverbal cues during face-to-face communication. In general, students reported that computer-mediated affinity-seeking was misunderstood and inappropriately presented. Results also illustrated which affinity-seeking strategies encouraged and …
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You Take Them as You Find Them: An Examination of How Negotiations Build Trust With Parties They Never Meet Face-to-Face
… given the inability to observe the verbal and nonverbal cues that heretofore have facilitated the assessment of trustworthiness. In this study, the manner in which previously unacquainted, experienced negotiators develop trust during faceless negotiation is explored. Prior studies that were …
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Descriptive study of aerobic dance-exercise instructional skills
… and videotaped analysis (instructional cues, nonverbal cues, general/specific feedback and choreographed movement patterns). Through descriptive statistical analysis, a profile of the instructional skills used in aerobic dance-exercise teaching environment was compiled. The findings from …
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The Effects of Serial Position, Evaluation Format, and Behavioral Isolate on Verbal and Nonverbal Clinical Cue Recognition and Performance Ratings
… awareness and recognition accuracy of verbal and nonverbal clinical cues. It was predicted that implementing periodic evaluations would reduce participant working memory load and permit better awareness and recognition of relevant clinical cues than the traditional post-scenario evaluation format. …
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Sensory-motor control and adaptation in cooperative action
… of this thesis is to present how implicit, nonverbal cues support coordinated action between two people. A set of five experiments shows how people utilise sensory information about a partner in order to control goal-directed action involving synchronous vertical hand movement. Chapter 1 …
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There's more to the picture than meets the ear - Gaze behavior during communication in children with hearing impairment
… hearing impairment by studying verbal and nonverbal interactions with normal hearing peers. The study uses a referential communication task requiring the speaker to make relevant descriptions, and the listener to use verbal and nonverbal means to resolve uncertainties. Analyses focus on …
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A Bayesian theory of mind approach to nonverbal communication for human-robot interactions : a computational formulation of intentional inference and belief manipulation
… body language, gaze directions, and many other nonverbal behaviors. A robot's ability to express and recognize the emotional states of people through these nonverbal channels is at the core of artificial social intelligence. The purpose of this thesis is to define a computational framework to …
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Context-based visual feedback recognition
… utterances help guide the recognition of nonverbal cues. The goal of this thesis is to augment computer interfaces with the ability to perceive visual feedback gestures and to enable the exploitation of contextual information from the current interaction state to improve visual feedback …
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