News tagged with human gestures
Translate this: 'cognition-strength interfaces'
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(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 ...
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How gorilla gestures point to evolution of human language
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of St Andrews have discovered that gorillas have a more extensive repertoire of gestures than any other mammal.
Right-handed chimpanzees provide clues to the origin of human language
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Most of the linguistic functions in humans are controlled by the left cerebral hemisphere. A study of captive chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center (Atlanta, Georgia), reported in the January 2010 issue ...
3-year-olds get the point
Apr 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
Ape gestures offer clues to the evolution of human communication
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Apr 30, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have found bonobos and chimpanzees use manual gestures of their hands, feet and limbs more flexibly than they do facial expressions ...
Bird can 'read' human gaze
Apr 02, 2009 |
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We all know that people sometimes change their behavior when someone is looking their way. Now, a new study reported online on April 2nd in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows that jackdaws—birds related to cro ...
The Next Level in Robots: Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Create
Oct 29, 2007 |
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The next level of robot is currently in the research and development stage in Japan's National Institute of Information and Communication Technology. The next level of robot untethered by human omnipresence ...
Social imitation found in rhesus monkeys
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Sep 05, 2006 |
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Italian scientists have provided the first quantitative description of neonatal imitation in a non-human primate.
Gesture recognition
Dec 18, 2008 |
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A system that can recognize human gestures could provide a new way for people with physical disabilities to interact with computers. A related system for the able bodied could also be used to make virtual worlds more realistic. ...
Words, gestures are translated by same brain regions, says new research
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication ...
Wag the Robot? Brown scientists build robot that responds to human gestures
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(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.
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