The goal of this survey is to inform the design and usage of nonverbal signals for human-
robot interaction. With robots being increasingly utilized for tasks that require them to not …

Objective The aim of this current paper is to investigate the salient embodiment features in
the empirical studies on technology‐enabled embodied learning environments (TEELEs) …

Technical skills are no longer enough for workers to compete in this highly competitive
global work environment. Soft skills are of paramount importance. A multiple case study …

Beat gestures—spontaneously produced biphasic movements of the hand—are among the
most frequently encountered co-speech gestures in human communication. They are closely …

Few would doubt the benefits of exercise on one's physical well-being. However, the
benefits of exercise on one's mental abilities are not nearly as extolled. More directly, the …

Recent research has shown that beat gestures (hand gestures that co-occur with speech in
spontaneous discourse) are temporally integrated with prosodic prominence and that they …

This study investigates the perception and production of a specific type of metaphoric
gesture that mimics melody in speech, also called pitch gesture, in the learning of L2 …

In what ways do native language (NL) speakers and foreign language (FL) learners differ in
understanding the same messages delivered with or without gestures? To answer this …

Body movements, including gestures, provide different learning channels for students, which
may help them to more easily understand learning materials (Hostetter & Alibali, 2008; …

Although research has shown that adults can benefit from the presence of beat gestures in
word recall tasks, studies have failed to conclusively generalize these findings to preschool …