Gesture recognition

down like they were stabbing him with a sword. This type of hand gesture has evolved over the years and we now use it in America as positive and negative signs when something is good or bad. Body gestures and hand gestures have been used all over the world to communicate with out using words instead of shouting across a sports field during a game or a room so no one knows what you and the other person is talking about. These gestures can represent secretes for example on sports teams using…

"The courtship of Benedick and Beatrice has a beautiful observed reality, a poise and maturity, a refreshing humour which makes the operatic main plot seem absurdly unreal." It is clear that Beatrice and Benedick are in love from the first we see of them; it is not simply through the Prince's intervention that the seeds of love are sown between them. When Beatrice is informed that Don Pedro and his party are coming to Messina, her first thought is for her 'Senior Mountanto'. Within four spoken…

just speaking. Objective communication is observed. Objective communication can be known as facial expressions, hand gestures, or body gestures. An example of this is the universal sign for choking, which is placing your hands around your neck. Have you ever thought of how you learned these skills as a child? The answer is observation, you have likely seen someone do these gestures and retained…

Before I even started interacting with them using gestures and sign language I could see that they knew something was wrong simply by my behavior as I am usually a vocal person around my friends and am rarely ever not speaking. Their reactions weren 't anything out of the ordinary at first they would look…

Going into this class I didn’t know what to expect. With it being called “Introduction To Counseling” I generally assumed that’s what it would be. I didn’t put that much thought into what we were going to learn about, but believe me; I am delighted I was given the opportunity to take this course. From professional ethics, attending behaviors, observation, encouraging, confrontation, and reflecting, I was given the chance to learn these skills that will help me in my professional life. Throughout…

handshakes from the traditional handshake that we are all familiar with, to the “fist bump”, to an informal handshake, and finally a handshake mixed with almost a “chest bump”. This video is important because it points out that not everybody expressed gestures in the same way, and just as we find this amusing, I’m sure that if we were studying Chinese or Japanese culture, we would find some of their customs different from ours, but this should be respected. Like they say, “when in Rome”……

non-verbal communication. Non-verbal communication is communication without words which involves your body movements such as gesture, posture, facial expressions, eye contact and many others. The study of this body movements or behavior is called kinesics. There are five types of kinesics : emblems, illustrators, regulators, adaptors and affect displays. For…

The House of Usher: A Glove A glove can only be of use when a hand is inside. When a hand is inserted into a glove, it is able to achieve the purpose for which it was created. Some of these purposes are protection, warmth, and style. Without a hand, a glove is nothing; limp, lifeless, and useless. The glove in this analogy represents the mansion in the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe. The hand would then represent the inhabitants of the house. When the Ushers…

I do think I felt myself leaning forward a bit when making a point, but overall I thought my felt good. When it came to the gestures and eyes, I really wanted to use them to emphasis my dialog and help to engage the audience. I practiced in the mirror and I think this helped to make those moments effective. I wanted to linger a bit with my hand and arm movements so the audience…

When I first heard that I needed to go to a deaf event I was a little nervous. I felt like I was not going to like it and or Feel like everyone was going to talk about me. I heard that some people in the deaf community are rude to hearing people. So I was just hoping to be accepted as a person who is learning ASL. I was very skeptical to what I was about to embark on. This deaf event did change how I viewed the deaf community. At a young age, I witnessed people using sign language. I did not…