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M.G.J. Swerts

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Tilburg School of Humanities
Department of Communication and Information Sciences

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Swerts is specialised in research on nonverbal communication. Results of his research further our understanding of how people communicate via spoken language, and are relevant for the improvement of spoken dialogue systems.

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Most recent publications

Crespo Sendra, V., Kaland, C.C.L., Swerts, M., & Prieto, P. (2013). Perceiving incredulity: The role of intonation and facial gestures. Journal of Pragmatics, 47(1), 1-13. Further information
Balsters, M.J.H., Krahmer, E.J., Swerts, M., & Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M. (2012). Verbal and nonverbal correlates for depression: A review. Current Psychiatry Reviews, 8(3), 227-234. Further information
Hoetjes, M.W., Krahmer, E.J., & Swerts, M. (2012). Do repeated references in sign reduction? In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R.P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th annual conference of the cognitive science society, Sapporo, Japan (pp. 461-466). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society. Further information
Joosten, B., Postma, E.O., Krahmer, E.J., Kim, J., & Swerts, M. (2012). Automated measurement of spontaneous surprise. In A.J. Spink, O.E. Grieco, O.E. Krips, L.W.S. Loijens, L.P.J.J. Noldus, & P.H. Zimmerman (Eds.), Proceedings of Measuring Behavior, Utrecht, the Netherlands (pp. 385-389). s.l.: s.n. Further information
Kaland, C.C.L., Krahmer, E.J., & Swerts, M. (2012). Contrastive intonation in autism: The effect of speaker-and listener-perspective. In not known (Ed.), Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspreech) (pp. no-pagenumbers). Portland, Oregon. Further information

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Publications

Most recent publications

Crespo Sendra, V., Kaland, C.C.L., Swerts, M., & Prieto, P. (2013). Perceiving incredulity: The role of intonation and facial gestures. Journal of Pragmatics, 47(1), 1-13. Further information
Balsters, M.J.H., Krahmer, E.J., Swerts, M., & Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M. (2012). Verbal and nonverbal correlates for depression: A review. Current Psychiatry Reviews, 8(3), 227-234. Further information
Hoetjes, M.W., Krahmer, E.J., & Swerts, M. (2012). Do repeated references in sign reduction? In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R.P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th annual conference of the cognitive science society, Sapporo, Japan (pp. 461-466). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society. Further information
Joosten, B., Postma, E.O., Krahmer, E.J., Kim, J., & Swerts, M. (2012). Automated measurement of spontaneous surprise. In A.J. Spink, O.E. Grieco, O.E. Krips, L.W.S. Loijens, L.P.J.J. Noldus, & P.H. Zimmerman (Eds.), Proceedings of Measuring Behavior, Utrecht, the Netherlands (pp. 385-389). s.l.: s.n. Further information
Kaland, C.C.L., Krahmer, E.J., & Swerts, M. (2012). Contrastive intonation in autism: The effect of speaker-and listener-perspective. In not known (Ed.), Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspreech) (pp. no-pagenumbers). Portland, Oregon. Further information

Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)

Projects

My research is concerned with the functional analysis of nonverbal communication. I investigate to what extent particular communicative functions in spoken interactions with humans and machines can be supported by different forms of body language (e.g. facial expressions, hand and arm gestures) and verbal cues (e.g. intonation, rhythm, tempo, loudness, voice quality).