Types of non-verbel communication

  1. Kinesics

    • body motion, body position, facial expressions, gestures

  1. Haptics

    • physical touch

  1. Physical appearance

    • physical qualities such as sex, age, size, skin color, features

  1. Artifacts

    • personal objects used to announce identities and personalize the environment

  1. Proxemics

    • space and how we use it

  1. Environmental factors

    • colors, temperature, design, smells, lighting

  1. Chronemics

    • how we preceive and use time to define identities and interaction

  1. Paralaunguage

    • vocal communitcation without words

    • laugh, gasp, cough, volume, pitch

  1. silence

    • silence holds a powerful message