Hands: so useful, yet so problematic! What to do with them? Shove them into pockets? Use them to clutch the sides of the lectern with last-lifeboat-off-the-Titanic fervor? Flick away invisible flies?

Even when the intention is to express equality, speech can still reinforce gender stereotypes, because biases can slip through via subtle linguistic cues. For example, a subject-complement statement ...

Instructors and students can give more visible feedback through live gestures by using new raise hand and thumbs-up 👍 gesture recognition. This feature will automatically display a corresponding ...

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In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? In a study using virtual avatars, ...

You hold a lot of power in your hand, and the way you use them is directly tied to energy centers withing the body. That is why hand symbols are used in a number of spiritual practices. Those hand ...