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Posted by Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang, Research Engineers, Google Research The ability to perceive the shape and motion of hands can be a v...

The surge in hand gesture recognition is not merely a novelty; it's a fundamental shift in how humans interact with machines.

The gesticulations that accompany your speech are so much more than mere hand-waving – they contain and convey meaning

During the Renaissance period, hands were as important a focus of attention as the face was, because they were the only other visible area of the body. Hence, representation of the position of the hands became a decorative element that was almost as important ...

In the US, smiling is a reflexive gesture of goodwill, but Russians view it as a sign of stupidity. Social psychology research could help explain this cultural contrast.

The Stork Club was a famous Manhattan night club that was founded by Oklahoma native and ex-bootlegger Sherman Billingsley (ed. note: amazing name), and operated continuously from 1929-1965. The NYC hot spot – which was located on 53rd Street near Fifth Avenue – was a destination for celebrities, ar

The tradition of discreet communication among staff at the Stork Club lives on at the restaurant Eleven Madison Park.

Many ushers communicate during church services using a sequence of hand signals called the “National Silent Uniform System.” Here are some of the central elements of these signals.

An excerpt from François Caradec’s book “Dictionary of Gestures.”

We all know people who talk with their hands. Turns out there’s quite a bit of research around the relationship between language and gestures.

No one person can take credit for the invention of American Sign Language. Its history reaches back to the early 19th century, when forms of sign developed among Deaf communities in New England.

A pocket guide to Neapolitan nonverbal communication.

Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception.

It’s all because of the similarities between words.

There’s ancient evidence for the custom of shaking hands, but did it mean the same thing then as it does today?

It was long thought that humans everywhere favor pointing with the index finger. But some fieldwork out of Papua New Guinea identified a group of people who prefer to scrunch their noses.

Gesture researchers have spent the past 40 years uncovering how movements (like a cupped hand rotating in space or a finger tracing a path through the air) are intimately tied to speech.

Before humans stored memories as zeroes and ones, we turned to digital devices of another kind — preserving knowledge on the surface of fingers and palms. Kensy Cooperrider leads us through a millennium of “hand mnemonics” and the variety of techniques practised by Buddhist monks, Latin linguists, and Renaissance musicians for remembering what might otherwise elude the mind.

Using hand gestures might feel like an intuitive way to communicate across language barriers, but their meaning can change, and there are few universal signs that everyone agrees on.

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A team of researchers from the Netherlands found that hands gestures, when used strategically, influence how certain words are heard.

We present Text2Gestures, a transformer-based learning method to interactively generate emotive full-body gestures for virtual agents aligned with natural language text inputs. Our method generates…