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Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines (Hardcover)
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Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines (Hardcover)
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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 give
away verbal cues. 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 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.
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