Other problematic moves include not smiling, touching your face and using too many hand gestures.
For more precise tasks, where hand gestures are not accurate, there is a touchpad.
Replace them with an even tone, non-invasive hand gestures and a warm friendly engagement style.
When telling the truth, people often make hand gestures to the rhythm of their speech.
Dr. David McNeill found that rigorous, disciplined, and confident speakers use hand gestures more than average.
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Imagine a repertoire of simple hand gestures: say, touching your thumb to each of your four fingers.
These so-called "mirror neurons" might have given apes the mental power necessary to recognize subtle differences in hand gestures.
Aside from smiling and eye contact, use open palms in hand gestures rather than closed fists or pointed fingers.
Many years ago I had a conversation with a professor at the University of Michigan who studied hand gestures.
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As you try to add hand gestures back into your repertoire, the key to looking good is to move naturally.
In addition, there is a whole language of nods, head moves, eyebrow motion, and hand gestures that regulate connected conversation.
This research helped give rise to a theory that human language has its roots not in speech, but in hand gestures.
When someone reaches toward you or uses a lot of open-hand gestures, it is usually a positive signal of interest and receptivity.
John spoke with dramatic hand gestures, modulating his voice like a schoolteacher.
Haefner has heard stories of candidates knocking over cups of coffee, glasses of water and stacks of paper with wild, windmill-like hand gestures.
Warmth is nonverbally displayed by signals that include open body postures, palm-up hand gestures, positive eye contact, synchronized movements, head nods and smiles.
At this point, the speech is destined for failure, and it all started as a chain reaction triggered by not using natural hand gestures.
Among the things the professor cited was that in his public appearances, Obama communicated with a cabal of fellow America haters in secret hand gestures.
San Francisco startup Leap Motion Inc. has just started taking preorders for its motion sensor technology that precisely tracks hand gestures and reflects the movements on screen.
Version 2.0 and on will also begin to feature an advanced Natural User Interface (NUI) based on hand gestures, eye tracking, and EEG brainwave sensors.
Apple alleges that Samsung infringes patents in the way the Galaxy devices operate, including the use of hand gestures and the color and shape of the devices.
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Everything about their voice, body and hand gestures conveys confidence.
Leap Motion impressed attendees by enabling people to throw away the mouse and control computers with natural hand gestures, allowing users to literally mold their ideas on the screen.
Soon gesture-recognition systems, which will read the occupants' hand gestures in the empty air, will supersede touch screens and capacitive switches, avoiding, among other things, greasy fingerprints on the controls.
Additionally, taking self-portraits or group shots are easy thanks to Samsung's unique Gesture Shot, which applies motion-sensing technology so that users can control the camera remotely using hand gestures alone.
Researchers found the pairs were much more successful in communicating the word when both avatars used hand gestures, as opposed to when one, or both, of the two avatars stayed still.
These ranged from jumping and flying games to a yoga simulator and Star Wars shooter, in which players control a virtual light sabre and use hand gestures to control action on the screen.
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