Socially Informed AI for Healthcare: Understanding and Generating Multimodal Nonverbal Cues

The purpose of this study was to assess the cues college students use to determine a sexual partner is refusing vaginal-penile sex (i.e., refusal interpretations). As a secondary aim, we explored the influence of item wording ( not willing/non-consent vs refusal) on college students’ self-reported refusal interpretations. A sample of 175 college students from Canada and the United States completed an open-ended online survey where they were randomly assigned to one of two wording conditions ( not willing/non-consent vs refusal); students were then prompted to write about the cues they used to interpret their partner was refusing. An inductive coding procedure was used to analyze open-ended data. Themes included explicit and implicit verbal and nonverbal cues. The refusal condition elicited more explicit and implicit nonverbal cues than the not willing/non-consent condition. Frequency results suggested men reported interpreting more explicit and implicit verbal cues. Women reported interpreting more implicit nonverbal cues from their partner. Our findings reflect prior research and appear in line with traditional gender and sexual scripts. We recommend researchers consider using the word refusal when assessing the cues students interpret from their sexual partners as this wording choice may reflect college students’ sexual experiences more accurately.

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Predicting two facets of social verticality in meetings from five-minute time slices and nonverbal cues

Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Multimodal interfaces - IMCI '08 ◽

10.1145/1452392.1452403 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Dinesh Babu Jayagopi ◽

Sileye Ba ◽

Jean-Marc Odobez ◽

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Keyword(s):

Nonverbal Cues

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Verbal and nonverbal cues as mediators of deception ability

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior ◽

10.1007/bf00990233 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 126-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Ronald E. Riggio ◽

Joan Tucker ◽

Keith F. Widaman

Keyword(s):

Nonverbal Cues

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Cyber-Flirting: An Examination of Men's and Women's Flirting Behaviour Both Offline and on the Internet

Behaviour Change ◽

10.1375/bech.21.2.115.55423 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 115-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Monica T. Whitty

Keyword(s):

Physical Attractiveness ◽

The Body ◽

Nonverbal Cues ◽

Future Research ◽

The Internet ◽

Research Needs ◽

Men And Women ◽

Face To Face ◽

Online Interactions

AbstractWhile flirting is a relatively underresearched area within psychology, even less is known about how people cyber-flirt. This paper explores how often individuals flirt offline compared to online. Moreover, it attempts to examine how men and women flirt within these different spaces. Five thousand, six hundred and ninety-seven individuals, of which 3554 (62%) were women and 2143 (38%) were men, completed a survey about their flirting behaviour both in face-to-face interactions and in chatrooms. The first hypothesis, which stated that the body would be used to flirt with as frequently online as offline, was partly supported. However, it was found that individuals downplayed the importance of physical attractiveness online. Women flirted by displaying nonverbal signals (offline) or substitutes for nonverbal cues (online), to a greater extent than men. In chatrooms men were more likely than women to initiate contact. It is concluded that cyber-flirting is more than simply a meeting of minds and that future research needs to consider the role of the body in online interactions.

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Exploring Intercultural Interaction: The Use of Semiotic Resources in Meaning-Making Processes

The GLOCAL in Asia 2020 ◽

10.47298/cala2020.10-3 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Nur Nabilah Abdullah ◽

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Rafidah Sahar ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Action ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Eye Gaze ◽

Semantic Content ◽

Nonverbal Cues ◽

Context Word ◽

Intercultural Interaction ◽

Semiotic Resources ◽

Word Search ◽

Cultural Origins

Intercultural communication refers to interaction between speakers of different backgrounds, such as different linguistic and cultural origins (Kim 2001). Interaction in face-to face situations has demonstrated that spoken language involves both verbal and semiotic resources for social action. Semiotic resources that include use of talk, gestures, eye gaze and other nonverbal cues can convey semantic content and can become a crucial point in conversation (Hazel et al. 2014). Drawing on a Aonversation Analysis (CA) approach, we explore how participants employed semiotic resources in word searches activities in an intercultural context. Word searches are moments in interaction when a speaker’s turn is temporarily ceased as the speaker displays difficulty in searching for appropriate linguistic items so as to formulate the talk (Schegloff et al. 1977; Kurhila 2006). In this study, naturally occurring interactions in a multilingual setting were video recorded. The participants were Asian university students with different language backgrounds. The findings suggest that multilingual participants mutually collaborate by utilizing verbal affordances, gaze, gesture and other nonverbal cues as useful semiotic resources in the meaning-making process, and thus resolving word search impediments to facilitate intercultural interaction.

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