Human communication is a traditional topic of research in many disciplines such as
psychology, linguistics and philosophy, all of which mainly focused on language, gestures
and deictics. However, these do not constitute the sole channels of communication,
especially during online social interaction, where instead an additional critical role may be
played by sensorimotor communication (SMC). SMC refers here to (often subtle)
communicative signals embedded within pragmatic actions–for example, a soccer player …