Oura Health Oy is buying a gesture-recognition startup, setting up the company to eventually add such controls to its popular ...

Is the close rate in the retail environment, whether a rug merchant or a shoe salesman, greater in person or online?

By bringing Doublepoint’s team and technology in‑house, Oura aims to integrate gesture‑based controls into future devices and software.

When people talk face to face, they don’t rely on words alone. They move their hands, raise their eyebrows, or nod to help express what they mean. These gestures often carry meaning and help listeners ...

One of the main problems travelers face is communicating with the locals. Even if you never leave home without your trusty phrase book, communication is as much about nonverbal cues as it is about ...

Having students make hand gestures connected to what they’re learning can help them remember new information, including vocabulary. But there are some important caveats. When I was researching a book ...

Author Vanessa Edwards and her team watched thousands of hours of TED Talks and noticed something surprising: The least popular TED Talkers used an average of 272 hand gestures during their 18-minute ...

All times are interesting times, but the summer of 2016 was especially interesting. That July, as a Twitter user named Katie ...