A Brief Look at the Gesture

Gestures: A lively and animated teaching style captures students’ attention, makes the material more interesting, and facilitates learning. Head nods also communicate positive reinforcement to students and indicate that you are listening.

Gestures: Gestures such as waving, pointing, and using fingers to indicate signals are commonly used in our daily life. These are deliberate movement used to convey signals without uttering a word. Gestures varies as per professions, cultures, nations, person etc.For an instance if waving my hand towards my friends

Gestures are ways of communicating with others using our body. For example, we use our hands to wave, which is another way of saying hello.

A few days ago I took a trip to my local mall and took a seat at the food court. My objective was to observe individuals engaging in non-verbal communication and document what I witnessed. After only a few minutes I became aware of a couple sitting within public distance, about 15-20ft away from me. They were having an argument about how the male was being cold and unaffectionate. While observing them I realized they were using various gestures while arguing. I will inform you of what type they were and what they were conveying.

Gestures. This can communicate feelings and helps people to be understood. Arms and hands are moved to accompany what people say and add emphasis to what is being said. Gestures can be emphatic or descriptive.

| Gestures – using gestures can help to explain the conversation to make sure that the person can understand what you are trying to say and sometimes it helps support your conversation if someone finds it hard to understand.

Another form of non-verbal communication the author witnessed was the use of gestures and hand movements. (Stretch, 2010) Suggested that the use of hand movements will help the listener to understand what the other person is saying. Andy and Jonathan appeared to have an understanding of the conversation as they were replying to each other, smiling and nodding their heads throughout the interview.

Signings & Symbols: there are many common signs and symbols that people would automatically recognise. A wave of the hand can mean hello or goodbye. You can use this in health and social care setting when you are talking to a person who is disabled and can’t talk or someone that is deaf and has difficulties communicating you would use sign language.

Gestures are a way of communicating with others using our body. For example, we use our hands to wave, which is another way of saying hello.

Body language (the process of communicating nonverbally through conscious or unconscious gestures and movements). People all of the world use body language or gestures to communicate nonverbally. I personally think that nonverbal communication and body language are one of the biggest barriers in communication especially between one culture to other. Body gestures can be misinterpreted as rude or disrespectful depending on the country, region, or even the city you’re from.

Gesture- Upper body movement, including use of the arms and hands, used to amplify a speaker’s words.

This concept is a motion sent by our bodies that helps communicate what we are saying verbally. Kinesics can be body movements such as gestures, posture, and facial expressions (Mullin, Dolly, PowerPoint Presentation, January 21, 2016). There are subcategories of kinesics, which are emblems, illustrators, affective displays, regulators, and adaptors (O’Hair et al., 2015, pp.103). Using your hands to show excitement by throwing them up in the air or pointing at somebody are examples of body language. Ruth uses hand gestures and movement of her arms to express that she is upset that Carl was not being understanding about the situation.

Growing up I learned both common American gestures and a bit of sign language. Many of these gestures do not overlap though, and the meanings vary from spoken English and sign language. In addition, facial expressions also vary between the languages, which leads to additional complications. I have relied on gestures throughout my life to fully understand the meaning of a conversation because I have had hearing loss since childhood. Most people do not have to consider what a gesture or facial expression contributes to nonverbal communication, they see them and know what they mean because of the tone of a person’s voice, or what was said. On the other hand, I struggle to understand speech when certain inflections are made, or letter sounds fall in a specific place in the sentence. Instead, I rely on the speakers facial expressions to tell me the mood of the conversation, and gestures to fill in gaps of missed speech. “Movements of the body to communicate with others, are shorthand ways to convey messages without using words”, Henslin says, and this sums up my experience with gestures (2014, p.

While this conversation was taken place I also noticed facial expressions, which is a gesture executed by using facial muscles. Below is an example of how both gestures and facial expression are both used during a nonverbal conversation.

ce this method depends on the centre mass of the object, the generated images have different sizes [5], for this reason a scaled normalization operation are applied to overcome this problem which maintain image dimensions and the time as well [5], where each block of the four blocks are scaling with a factor that is different from other block’s factors. Two methods are used for extraction the features; firstly by using the edge mages, and secondly by using normalized features where only the brightness values of pixels are calculated and other black pixels are neglected to reduce the length of the feature vector [5]. The database consists of 6 different gestures, 10 samples per gesture are used, 5 samples for training and 5 samples for