Embodied communication in humans and machines
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Embodied communication in humans and machines
Oxford University Press, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 where partners jointly attend and refer to the same objects, often while working on joint tasks such as carrying a table or repairing a car together.
Traditionally, communication research has neglected these parts of communication using the engineering model of signal transmission as the main theoretical metaphor. This book takes a new look at recent empirical findings in the cognitive and neurosciences, showing that the traditional approach is insufficient, and presenting a new interdisciplinary perspective, the Embodied Communication perspective. The core claim of the Embodied Communication perspective is that human communication involves
parallel and highly interactive couplings between communication partners. These couplings range from low-level systems for performing and understanding instrumental actions, like the mirror system, to higher-systems that interpret symbols in a cultural context. The book can also serve as a guide for
engineers who construct artificial agents and robots that should be able to interact with humans.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction to embodied communication
- 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 agents
- 10. 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 machines
- 18. Implementing a non-modular theory of language production in an embodied conversational agent
- 19. Towards a neurocognitive model of turntaking in multimodal dialogue
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