School has already started for many students and with so many pre-teen and teenage kids already in or starting school, anti bullying campaigns have begun. No one likes to be bullied and in our socially aware and interactive society, bullying is becoming taboo. Anti-bullying campaigns across the nation are hard at work trying to keep…
Read MoreItalian Gestures and Nonverbal Communication
As mentioned in a past blog post entitled “The Complicated World of Gestures”, there are 2 types of gestures: speech illustrators and emblems. Emblems are gestures that convey specific verbal meaning that can exist without the use of words. Other gestures (that are not emblems) co-occur with words. Gestures have been a part of Italian…
Read MoreFreaky Facial Expressions
The realism of robotic facial features is growing at an exponential pace. Huff Post Science has reported on a very “interesting” way to control an android’s face. Researchers at the University of the West of England in Bristol programmed the robotic face, in the video below, to respond to electrical signals produced by slime mold,…
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