Transitions in speech are the secret sauce to keeping your ideas flowing and your audience glued to your every word, says veteran public relations professional and public speaking expert Rosemary ...

Gesture and speech constitute complementary channels in human communication, jointly enabling the expression of complex ideas and enhancing cognitive processing. This field explores how spontaneous or ...

In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? In a study using virtual avatars, ...

Recent progress in camera systems, image analysis, and machine learning have made optical-based gesture recognition a more attractive option in most contexts. However, current methods are hindered by ...