Secrets of orangutan language revealed
"Climb on me", "climb on you" and "resume play" are among the requests wild orangutans make to each other, researchers say.
Evolution
Dec 9, 2019
0
1221
News tagged with gesture
Gesture as language: why we point with a finger
Pointing at an object… in one sense you might say that this simple gesture doesn't just replace a word, but that it is a word—perhaps the first word. We know that it and other such gestures play a fundamental role in ...
Social Sciences
Sep 24, 2019
2
4
Economists find mixed values of 'thoughts and prayers'
Groundbreaking research by a University of Wyoming economist has shed new light on the controversial topic of the value of "thoughts and prayers" in response to natural and human-caused disasters.
Economics & Business
Sep 16, 2019
1
98
Hand gestures point towards the origins of language
Communication gestures used by humans and our primate relatives are providing clues about how our species' ability to use spoken language evolved.
Evolution
Aug 20, 2019
0
175
Gestures and visual animations reveal cognitive origins of linguistic meaning
Gestures and visual animations can help reveal the cognitive origins of meaning, indicating that our minds can assign a linguistic structure to new informational content "on the fly"—even if it is not linguistic in nature.
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2019
1
341
Sophisticated 3-D measurement technology permits gesture-based human-machine interaction in real time
Humans and machines will increasingly support each other in the workplace. For processes to be efficient, the machine must respond to the human worker without any time delay. Thanks to sophisticated high-speed 3-D measurement ...
Engineering
Mar 1, 2019
1
11
Chimp communication gestures found to follow human linguistics rules
A team of researchers with members from the U.K., Switzerland and Spain has found that chimpanzees use communication gestures in ways that follow human linguistic rules. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal ...
Gestures help students learn new words in different languages, study finds
Students' comprehension of words in a foreign language improves if teachers pair each word with a gesture – even if the gesture is arbitrary and does not represent a word's actual meaning, researchers at the University ...
Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2019
0
1053
Interactive control to guide industrial robots
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU have developed an innovative technology enabling people and large industrial robots to work together in an intuitive way that feels a lot ...
Robotics
Jan 24, 2019
0
4
MagicMark: A marking menu using 2-D direction and 3-D depth information
A recent study presents a novel marking menu, MagicMark, to extend the selection capability of large-screen interactions. By leveraging the 2-D directional information and 3-D depth information, MagicMark supports smooth ...
Software
Jul 17, 2018
0
8
