Comments on: What to do with your hands? http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/presentation-skills/what-to-do-with-your-hands/ ideas & techniques for for improving your speaking, presenting and influencing skills Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:34:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Olivia Mitchell http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/presentation-skills/what-to-do-with-your-hands/#comment-866 Olivia Mitchell Wed, 21 May 2008 00:35:47 +0000 http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/?p=229#comment-866 I found this really interesting paper abstract. It's an experiment in which they immobilised a speaker's arms and looked at the impact on their fluency. And, yes it did reduce their fluency. http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=15683678 I found this really interesting paper abstract. It’s an experiment in which they immobilised a speaker’s arms and looked at the impact on their fluency. And, yes it did reduce their fluency. http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=15683678

]]> By: Olivia Mitchell http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/presentation-skills/what-to-do-with-your-hands/#comment-864 Olivia Mitchell Tue, 20 May 2008 09:14:44 +0000 http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/?p=229#comment-864 Hi Gavin I'm really interested in the research you mention about gestures improving the fluency of our speech. Can you give me a reference for it? Many thanks Olivia Hi Gavin

I’m really interested in the research you mention about gestures improving the fluency of our speech. Can you give me a reference for it?

Many thanks
Olivia

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