Strong doctor-patient relationships generate greater patient satisfaction and compliance with physician recommendations. Although prior research has explored distinct factors driving favorable patient outcomes, investigations have yet to comprehensively address the efficacy of different communication styles. Furthermore, it is critical to explore the full impact communication approaches have on...

Virtual agents are systems that add a social dimension to computing, often featuring not only natural language input but also an embodiment or avatar. This allows them take on more role and leverage the use of nonverbal communication (NVC). In humans, NVC is used for many purposes, including communicating intent, directing attention, conveying emotion. As result, researchers have developed emul...

The work presented in this paper was supported by the project number 2C06009. Verbal communication is the most obvious instrument used to express our thoughts and ideas, considering only this part of speech without regarding its nonverbal part, may lead to overlooking important information of utterance or even misunderstanding it. The contributed paper deals with use of automatic system for rec...

Verbal communication is the most obvious instrument used to express our thoughts and ideas, considering only this part of speech without regarding its nonverbal part, may lead to overlooking important information of utterance or even misunderstanding it. The development of an automatic system for recognition of facial expressions is a rather difficult task. Such a system must perform automatica...