Publications associées à Body language

Accurate Nod and 3D Gaze Estimation for Social Interaction Analysis

Non-verbal behaviours play an important role in human communication since it can indicate human attention, serve as communication cue in interactions, or even reveal higher level personal constructs. For instance, head nod, a common non-verbal behaviour, c ...

EPFL2020

Guest Editorial: Special Cluster on Antennas for Wireless Body Area Networks

Anja Skrivervik

The papers in this special section highlight current and emerging research in antennas for WBAN, as well as applications of this technology. This ssection brings together the latest work in antennas for in-, on-, and off-body communication, the WBAN channe ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Translating Head Motion into Attention - Towards Processing of Student’s Body-Language

Pierre Dillenbourg, Lukasz Kidzinski, Mirko Raca

Evidence has shown that student's attention is a crucial factor for engagement and learning gain. Although it can be accurately assessed ad-hoc by an experienced teacher, continuous contact with all students in a large class is difficult to maintain and re ...

2015

Sleepers’ lag - study on motion and attention

Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Mirko Raca

Human body-language is one of the richest and most obscure sources of information in inter-personal communication which we aim to re-introduce into the classroom’s ecosystem. In this paper we present our observations of student-to-student influence and mea ...

ACM2014

Asymmetric facial expressions: revealing richer emotions for embodied conversational agents

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Stéphane Gobron, Junghyun Ahn

In this paper, we propose a method to achieve effective facial emotional expressivity for embodied conversational agents by considering two types of asymmetry when exploiting the Valence-Arousal-Dominance representation of emotions. Indeed, the asymmetry o ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

An Event-Based Architecture to Manage Virtual Human Non-Verbal Communication in 3D Chatting Environment

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Stéphane Gobron, Junghyun Ahn, Quentin Silvestre

Non-verbal communication (NVC) makes up about two-thirds of all communication between two people or between one speaker and a group of listeners. However, this fundamental aspect of communicating is mostly omitted in 3D social forums or virtual world orien ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2012

Body expressions of emotion do not trigger fear contagion in autism spectrum disorder

Nouchine Hadjikhani

Although there is evidence of emotion perception deficits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), research on this topic has been mostly confined to perception of emotions in faces. Using behavioral measures and 3T functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), ...

Oxford University Press2009

Impact de la communication voco-visuelle dans le management sur la motivation des collaborateurs

Our research work wishes to highlight the importance of the relationship between the vocal and physical behaviour of the manager and team motivation. In order to investigate this important relationship, a survey by means of a questionnaire and two field st ...

EPFL2009

Learning collaborative manipulation tasks by demonstration using a haptic interface

Aude Billard, Sylvain Calinon, Elena Gribovskaya

This paper presents a method by which a robot can learn through observation to perform a collaborative manipulation task, namely lifting an object. The task is first demonstrated by a user controlling the robot's hand via a haptic interface. Learning extra ...

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Differential influence of hands posture on mental rotation of hands and feet in left and right handers

Olaf Blanke, Silvio Ionta

The representation of the body in the brain is continuously updated with regard to peripheral factors such as position or movement of body parts. In the present study, we investigated the effects of arm posture on the mental rotation of hands and feet. Six ...

Springer Verlag2009