QUESTION During the patient-therapist encounter, which communication factors correlate with constructs of therapeutic alliance? DESIGN Systematic review. PARTICIPANTS Clinicians and patients in primary, secondary or tertiary care settings. MEASURES Studies had to investigate the association between communication factors (interaction styles, verbal factors or non-verbal factors) and constr...

BACKGROUND the communication of children with Down syndrome (DS) is frequently impaired due to difficulties in the phonological, syntactic and semantic aspects of language. In order to compensate these difficulties, many children use gestures for a longer period of time than children who present typical development (TD). AIM to verify the performance of children with DS regarding their commun...

In human-human communications, especially in face-to-face communication, sub-verbal and non-verbal messages have more importance than messages transported by words. On the other hand, in traditional manmachine interfaces, machines only understand pre-defined operations, and never understand operators’ sub-verbal and non-verbal messages. This causes some usability problems in machine operations....

Realism for synthetic characters, both in computer games and conversational agent mediated applications, requires both visual and behavioural fidelity. One significant area of synthetic character behaviour, that has to date received little attention, is nonverbal behaviour. In identifying the scope and participants of non-verbal behaviour in computer games we first review the range of spatial a...

A commonly suggested solution to reduce misinterpretations of verbal probability expressions in risk communications is to use a verbal-numerical (mixed format) approach, but it is not known whether this increases understanding over and above a purely numerical format. Using the ‘which outcome’ methodology (Teigen & Filkuková, 2013), we examined the effect of using verbal, numerical and mixed co...

In this paper, an overview of human-robot interactive communication is presented, covering verbal as well as non-verbal aspects. Following a historical introduction, and motivation towards fluid human-robot communication, ten desiderata are proposed, which provide an organizational axis both of recent as well as of future research on human-robot communication. Then, the ten desiderata are exami...

In developed country such as Japan, aging has become a serious issue, as there is a disproportionate increasing of elderly population who are no longer able to look after themselves. In order to tackle this issue, we introduce human-friendly robot partner to support the elderly people in their daily life. However, to realize this, it is essential for the robot partner to be able to have a natur...

Our knowledge of the world comes to us through sensory channels. We sense light or dark; hot or cold; and pleasure or pain. This is how we understand and interpret our environment. From birth we learn what these sensory experiences mean and how society expects us to respond to them. This sensory language is highly contextual and inherently dynamic. However, the traditional methods of visual and...