Embodied communication in humans and machines / edited by Ipke Wachsmuth, Manuela Lenzen, Gunther Knoblich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wachsmuth, Ipke.

Lenzen, Manuela.

Knoblich, Günther.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body language.

Communication--Data processing.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (509 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When people communicate face to face they don't just exchange verbal information. Rather, communication encompasses the whole body. Communication partners synchronize their body sway, and mimic or imitate each other's body postures and actions. They produce a multitude of manual and facial gestures that help to illustrate what is being said, show how communication partners feel, or or reveal verbal deception. Moreover, face-to-face communication takes place in shared contexts wherepartners jointly attend and refer to the same objects, often while working on joint tasks such as carrying a table

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Contributors; 1 Introduction to embodied communication: why communication needs the body; 2 Some boundary conditions on embodied agents sharing a common world; 3 Toward a theory of embodied communication: self-sustaining wild systems as embodied meaning; 4 Synchrony and swing in conversation: coordination, temporal dynamics, and communication; 5 The visual perception of dynamic body language; 6 Mirrors for embodied communication; 7 The role of the mirror system in embodied communication; 8 Everything is movement: on the nature of embodied communication

9 Communication and cooperation in living beings and artificial agents10 Laborious intersubjectivity: attentional struggle and embodied communication in an auto-shop; 11 The emergence of embodied communication in artificial agents and humans; 12 Dimensions of embodied communication-towards a typology of embodied communication; 13 Neurological disorders of embodied communication; 14 Gestural imagery and cohesion in normal and impaired discourse; 15 Conversational metacognition; 16 Imitation in embodied communication-from monkey mirror neurons to artificial humans

17 Persuasion and the expressivity of gestures in humans and machines18 Implementing a non-modular theory of language production in an embodied conversational agent; 19 Towards a neurocognitive model of turn taking in multimodal dialog; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-155242-9

9786613892386

1-283-57993-6

OCLC:

801363552