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Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction
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Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction

by Matej Rojc, Nick Campbell
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
434 pages
14h 40m
English
CRC Press
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CHAPTER 11
Human and Virtual Agent
Expressive Gesture Quality
Analysis and Synthesis
Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Maurizio Mancini
and Stefano Piana
1. Introduction
Nonverbal communication is an essential element of human-
human communication, equally important as the verbal message. It
consists of bodily nonverbal signals, including facial expressions, hand/
arm gestures, posture shifts, and so on (Argyle, 1998). In particular,
the communicative meaning of gestures usually depends on two
components: shape and expressive quality. While the role of the former,
for instance the configurations of the hand in time, is well known
(McNeill, 1996), studies about the latter, i.e., how a particular mental
intention is communicated through a gesture’s expressive ...
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