Nonverbal Self-Accuracy in Interpersonal Interaction

Psychology of Nonverbal Communication and Interpersonal Interaction

Nonverbal behavior in clinician-patient interaction

Empirical studies on nonverbal communication in clinician-patient interaction are reviewed for both the psychotherapeutic and medical settings. Nonverbal behavior is considered both as the consequence of antecedent variables, such as individual or relationship characteristics, and as a predictor of clinical effectiveness and patient outcomes. The concept of rapport is considered in relation to ...

Interpersonal Relationships in Group Interaction

The successful deployment of computer supported collaborative learning systems (CSCL) requires taking into account social factors, like preexisting and developing attitudes, relationships between users, incentive mechanisms, organizational flows of control and information. There are examples of solid user communities that formed around pieces of technology (e.g. slashdot.com), but there are als...

Nonverbal and Bodily Interaction in Ambient Entertainment

In future Ambient Intelligence environments we assume intelligence embedded in the environment and its virtual, sometimes visualized agents (virtual humans). These environments support the human inhabitants or visitors in their activities and interactions by perceiving them through their sensors. In this paper we look at our research on bodily and gestural interaction with environments equipped...

The Effects of Individual Differences and Self-Consciousness on Nonverbal Decoding Accuracy

Nonverbal decoding refers to the act of recognizing and interpreting the meaning of other people’s nonverbal cues. Decoding skills vary depending on many factors such as personality and environment (Knapp & Hall, 2009). The present study focused on six individual difference measures (the EPI, IOS, PSI, SCS-R, 20-item Shyness Scale, and TSIS) and an experimentally manipulated variable of self-co...