In human face-to-face communication, language comprehension is a multi-modal, situated
activity. However, little is known about how we combine information from these different …

Face to face communication typically involves audio and visual components to the speech
signal. To examine the effect of task demands on gaze patterns in response to a speaking …

Despite a vast literature on how speech intelligibility is affected by hearing loss and
advanced age, remarkably little is known about the perception of talker-related information …

Hearing science traditionally focuses on testing listening in isolation. Here we explore the
effect of providing hearing aids to listeners with hearing impairment by analyzing the …

Gestures and speech are tightly linked. Since McNeill (1992) argued that gesture and
speech form a single integrated system, research has shown that gestures and speech …

Most language use occurs in face-to-face conversation, which involves rapid turn-taking.
Seeing communicative bodily signals in addition to hearing speech may facilitate such fast …

People communicate using verbal and non-verbal cues, including gaze cues. Gaze
allocation can be influenced by social factors; however, most research on gaze cueing has …

The background of this study is the generation of natural gaze behaviors in human-robot
multimodal interaction. For that purpose, in this study we analyzed gaze behaviors of …

People who can not speak may use different communication aids, such as communication
books (CB) and speech-generating devices (SGD), for replacing their lack of speech. The …

Speech comprehension is often thought of as an entirely auditory process, but both normal
hearing and hearing-impaired individuals sometimes use visual attention to disambiguate …