Cultural Aspects of Immediacy in an Asian Classroom Context [PDF]
Among the various factors affecting students’ learning, immediacy is probably the one that has been most studied over the last four decades. Immediacy, a term coined by Mehrabian (1967), refers to verbal and nonverbal behaviours used by interlocutors ...
López-Ozieblo, Renia
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Pedagogies of Well‐Being: Disciplinary and Moral Concerns
ABSTRACT Worldwide, emphasis on student well‐being and interventions like social emotional learning has necessitated investigations around its pedagogies. Taking the example of Happiness Class in India, I show that pedagogies of well‐being in this context are deeply intertwined with disciplinary and moral concerns.
Neha Miglani
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Non-verbal communication styles in translation
Nonverbal communication accompanies direct oral verbal communication. The means of nonverbal communication, constituting culturally determined communication styles are a phenomenon which cannot be overlooked in translation.
Maria Mocarz-Kleindienst
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The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48*
Abstract This article considers the roles that the body and the senses played in shaping the dynamics of 19th‐century reform crowds in Britain. Acoustics, terrain, timing, weather and corporeal issues of hunger, thirst and calls of nature influenced the timing and location of events and, along with the physical aspects of accessibility, visibility and ...
Dave Steele
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F-formation Detection: Individuating Free-standing Conversational Groups in Images [PDF]
Detection of groups of interacting people is a very interesting and useful task in many modern technologies, with application fields spanning from video-surveillance to social robotics.
Chiara Bassetti +4 more
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Explicit and implied significance of contemporary public spaces. Part 1. Spaces of attractions
This text presents considerations encouraged by thoughts and conclusions gained from research on several beach bars and their comparison with other urban public spaces, run in Wrocław from 2018 to 2019.
Dariusz Dziubiński
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Teaching Virtual Characters to use Body Language [PDF]
Non-verbal communication, or “body language”, is a critical component in constructing believable virtual characters. Most often, body language is implemented by a set of ad-hoc rules.We propose a new method for authors to specify and refine their ...
Friedman, Doron, Gillies, Marco
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Out of sight out of mind: Perceived physical distance between the observer and someone in pain shapes observer's neural empathic reactions [PDF]
Social and affective relations may shape empathy to others' affective states. Previous studies also revealed that people tend to form very different mental representations of stimuli on the basis of their physical distance.
Arianna Schiano Lomoriello +4 more
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Valențele proxemicii în romanul „Mănușile roșii” - influența spațiului carceral asupra personajului principal / Valences of Proxemics in the Novel “RedGloves” - The Influence of the Carceral Space Upon the Main Character [PDF]
There are certain universal philosophical concepts, such as space and time, which are essential dimensions of reality and implicitly of literary space.
Elena Teodora Mihaela Săcărea (Coldea)
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On the Integration of Adaptive and Interactive Robotic Smart Spaces [PDF]
© 2015 Mauro Dragone et al.. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)Enabling robots to seamlessly operate as part of smart spaces is an important and extended challenge for ...
Dautenhahn, K. +2 more
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