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Communication Between Humans: Towards an Interdisciplinary Model of Intercomprehension

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Human-Robot Interaction

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Communication, to communicate… These are words daily used in common speech (e.g. media, science, business, advertising and so on). Although these words are familiar, the correct definition of communication remains complex. Here, our aim is to gather knowledge from different scientific disciplines to better understand what communication is. After some theoretical models of communication, we detailed what are verbal and nonverbal communications, how researchers try to classify them and which factors could influence them. We proposed, at last, an interdisciplinary model of intercomprehension between individuals that could be used to improve communication with robots.

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    Marine Grandgeorge

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  1. University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France

    Céline Jost

  2. IUT de Vannes—Département STID, University of South Brittany, Vannes, France

    Brigitte Le Pévédic

  3. IDLab—imec—ELIS, Ghent, Belgium

    Tony Belpaeme

  4. Social, Therapeutic, and Robotic Systems Lab, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA

    Cindy Bethel

  5. Robotics and Automation Group, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Dimitrios Chrysostomou

  6. Research and Knowledge Exchange, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Nigel Crook

  7. Laboratoire Ethologie Animale et Humaine, Université Rennes 1, Paimpont, France

    Marine Grandgeorge

  8. Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

    Nicole Mirnig

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Grandgeorge, M. (2020). Communication Between Humans: Towards an Interdisciplinary Model of Intercomprehension. In: Jost, C., et al. Human-Robot Interaction. Springer Series on Bio- and Neurosystems, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42307-0_1

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