Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are often designed to produce nonverbal behavior
to complement or enhance their verbal communication. One such form of the nonverbal …

Established as the foremost textbook on communication, the seventh edition of Owen
Hargie's Skilled Interpersonal Communication is thoroughly revised and updated with the …

Analysis of Neurogenic Disordered Discourse Production provides a comprehensive review
and discussion of aphasia and its related disorders, their corresponding clinical discourse …

Multi-modal behavior for social robots is crucial for the robot's perceived social intelligence,
ability to communicate nonverbally, and the extent to which the robot can be trusted …

This chapter offers a methodological reflection on the use of multimodal techniques for the
study of academic lectures. Three distinct multimodal approaches have been put forward to …

Background: Studies have shown that the gestures produced by people with aphasia (PWA)
can convey information useful for their communication. However, the exact significance of …

The use of co-verbal gestures is common in human communication and has been reported
to assist word retrieval and to facilitate verbal interactions. This study systematically …

Introduction Gestures characterize individuals' nonverbal communicative exchanges, taking
on different functions. Several types of research in the neuroscientific field have been …

Within Dialogue Modeling research in AI and NLP, considerable attention has been spent
on``dialogue state tracking''(DST), which is the ability to update the representations of the …

Aphasia is a common type of acquired language impairment resulting from dysfunction in
specific brain regions. Analysis of narrative spontaneous speech, eg, story-telling, is an …