Embodied Synchrony in Conversation

Conversational Informatics: An Engineering Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 331-351

  Nagaoka, Chika ^a   Komori, Masashi ^b   Yoshikawa, Sakiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body movement and gesture; Coordinated interpersonal timing; Facial and vocal behavior; Interpersonal synchrony; Magnetic tracking system; Mother infant interactions; Nonverbal behavior synchronization and similarity; Physiological reactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 67549125389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470512470.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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