News tagged with human gestures

'Look at that!' -- ravens use gestures, too

Pointing and holding up objects in order to attract attention has so far only been observed in humans and our closest living relatives, the great apes. Simone Pika from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and Thomas ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How gorilla gestures point to evolution of human language

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of St Andrews have discovered that gorillas have a more extensive repertoire of gestures than any other mammal.

Biology /

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Wag the Robot? Brown scientists build robot that responds to human gestures

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a day when you turn to your own personal robot, give it a task and then sit down and relax, confident that your robot is doing exactly what you wanted it to do.

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

3-year-olds get the point

Dogs and small children who share similar social environments appear to understand human gestures in comparable ways, according to Gabriella Lakatos from Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary, and her team. Looking at how ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Translate this: 'cognition-strength interfaces'

(PhysOrg.com) -- A highly ambitious European project used basic cognitive function, eye-tracking and keystroke logging as the starting point for the study of human-computer interaction for translation. It ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Baboons, infants show similar gesturing behavior, suggesting shared communication systems

Both human infants and baboons have a stronger preference for using their right hand to gesture than for a simple grasping task, supporting the hypothesis that language development, which is lateralized in the left part of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Robotics: Gesturing for control

New intelligent algorithms could help robots to quickly recognize and respond to human gestures. Researchers at A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore have created a computer program which recognises ...

Electronics / Robotics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0