Nonverbal information recognition and its application to communications

The development of sophisticated human interface technologies are highly desired for facilitating human-machine communications. The human interface is defined as technologies for supporting human communications and, therefore, should take the various aspects of communications into consideration. In this paper, various forms of human communications are examined and in particular the nonverbal aspects of communications are shown to be essential. Also it is reported that systematic research to treat nonverbal information in communications should be carried out. Several examples of this type of research are described.

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