From Universal Greeting to Cultural Minefield The handshake, once considered the gold standard of international greetings, ...

There’s about a million different gestures, phrases, actions, and emotions that speak to our character — whether we’re in the middle of a conversation or indulging in alone time by ourselves. How we ...

Picture this: a traveler stands in a bustling Greek market, trying to signal to a vendor that everything’s fine with an order ...

But whether elephants gesture intentionally to others to communicate goals in mind has not been systematically explored before. My colleagues and I study the cognition and communication of animals to ...

Hand gesture controls being developed for the next generation of virtual and augmented reality systems risk excluding ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Hand gestures have become a natural way to communicate with digital systems, but making machines understand those gestures with precision remains a technical challenge. While ...

Most of the research on elephant communication is on their calls and chemical signals, likely because of their extraordinary hearing and smell. How elephants communicate with gestures is comparatively ...

Experimental armband can measure both electrical (top row) and pressure signals from arm muscles. Signals from either or both sensors were fed into an algorithm as participants moved their hands with ...