These Dance Moves Can Make You More Attractive

In two studies, Northumbria University set out to identify which dance moves heterosexual men and women find the most attractive.

Beyond words: The 200-year-old hidden languages of dating

From Regency-era "fan flirting" to online dating, we decipher the timeless looks, signs and gifts that signal secret love.

courtship portraits are, actually, back

On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe

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...

From Iron Man to Reality: Hand Gesture Recognition Reshapes Tech Interaction - Dataconomy

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

secret hand gestures in paintings

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 ...

Why are Russians so stingy with their smiles?

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.

Hand Signals at The Stork Club

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…

Sign Dining

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

Usher Signals

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 Illustrated Guide to Mouth Gestures and Their Meanings Around the World

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

Why Do We Gesture When We Talk?

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.

How Your Body Posture Communicates Feelings to Others

New research suggests that body postures can reveal our emotions to other people—and maybe even change how we feel inside.

The Hidden History of “Hand Talk,” the Native American Sign Language That P

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.

The Fine Art of Italian Hand Gestures: A Vintage Visual Dictionary by Bruno Munari

A pocket guide to Neapolitan nonverbal communication.

How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning

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

The Language You Speak Influences Where Your Attention Goes

It’s all because of the similarities between words.

When Did Shaking Hands Become a Standard Way of Greeting Someone?

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

The Way Humans Point Isn’t as Universal as You Might Think

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.

8 body-language tricks that are hard to master but will pay off forever

Good body language is a crucial part of making an excellent first impression.

Why Do We Gesture When We Talk?

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.

Handy Mnemonics: The Five-Fingered Memory Machine

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…

The hand gestures that last longer than spoken languages

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.

Trading Pit History

Trading Pit History - hand signals of open outcry pit trading

The evolutionary psychology of talking with your hands - Big Think

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

Text2Gestures: A Transformer-Based Network for Generating Emotive Body Gest

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…

How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning | Quanta Magazine

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

Expert tips on using gestures to think and talk more effectively

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