Generally, various eye-tracking studies found that humans tend to look at a speakers face
much more intensively compared to other body areas (Beattie, Webster, & Ross, 2010; …

The purpose of this study is to establish the method of conversational gesture corpus
analysis (CGCA), which integrates multimodal corpus linguistics (MCL) with conversation …

This thesis summarizes three papers (Look into my eyes! Exploring the effect of addressing
in educational videos; Ageism–Age coherence within learning material fosters learning and …

Climate change is an anthropogenic existential threat that provokes extreme concern
amongst climate scientists, but not it seems amongst all member of the public. Here, there is …

В статье рассматривается специфика креативности как свойства кинетических систем,
а именно: проявление творческого начала в спонтанных жестах, сопровождающих …

This study investigated the role of gestures, smiles, and eye contact on scores assigned to
English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) speakers during standardized face-to-face …

In this thesis, I explore the ongoing development of symbol use in three domains: pretend
play, speech and gestures. In chapter 1, the specific behavioural manifestations of symbol …

Teachers commonly use actions-on-objects (or actions with manipulatives) to help students
understand mathematical concepts. This practice is based on the assumption that …

This thesis addresses how verbal comprehension is affected by seeing the speaker and in
particular when the speaker is an animated virtual speaker. Two people visually co-present …

Gestures are an integral part of every-day human communication and serve many different
functions (eg they aid lexical retrieval, the learning of a second language or can be used as …