Sökning: "NON-VERBAL"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 111 avhandlingar innehållade ordet NON-VERBAL.
1. Blinda personers icke-verbala kommunikation : studier om kroppsspråk, icke-verbal samtalsreglering och icke-verbala uttryck
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to deepen the understanding of grown-up blind people’s non-verbal communication, including body expressions and paralinguistic (voice) expressions. More specifically, the thesis includes the following three studies: Blind people’s different forms of body expressions, blind people’s non-verbal conversation regulation and blind people’s experience of their own non-verbal expressions. LÄS MER
2. The experience of meaning in the care of patients in the terminal stage of dementia of the Alzheimer type : interpretation of non-verbal communication and ethical demands
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3. Moments on a City Bus : Micro-sociology of Non-verbal Interaction in Urban Bus-riding
Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to contribute to research on social interaction in public (and semi-public) places in general, and research on non-verbal mundane interaction in these places in particular. By paying empirical attention to the non-verbal interaction that takes place in the context of riding a city bus – which is a contained and time-limited form of social activity – this thesis explores the theoretically rich source of information about mundane interaction that this specific social activity offers. LÄS MER
4. Towards conversational speech synthesis : Experiments with data quality, prosody modification, and non-verbal signals
Sammanfattning : The aim of a text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system is to generate a human-like speech waveform from a given input text. Current TTS sys- tems have already reached a high degree of intelligibility, and they can be readily used to read aloud a given text. For many applications, e.g. LÄS MER
5. Voicing on the borders of language
Sammanfattning : My research engages with the varieties of relationship between verbal and non-verbal forms of language and communication. I approach the issue through three people who live or work with non-verbal people on the autistic spectrum: Phoebe Caldwell, Fernand Deligny and Iris Johansson. LÄS MER