**2. The present book: Featuring the nonverbal communication in the real-world application**

These novel discoveries, summarized based on a cross-journal search and posthoc comparisons of research papers, call for a proposal to systematically organize and plan a new book to address the nonverbal communication, its socio-adaptive nature and its various types.

In this book, we aim to respond to this call with several attempts. Our first endeavor is to reveal the novel approach to the classification and the training of nonverbal communication with advanced technologies.

Our second goal is to give a selective overview on the factors underlying the learning and the evaluation of nonverbal communications in educational settings and in digital worlds.

Our last effort is to characterize the latest advancement that uncovers the psychological nature underlying nonverbal communication in conversations and other applied settings.

Despite the topics relevant to other specific types of nonverbal communication (e.g. in drama and performing arts, etc.), the interesting works featured in this book, together with other contributions to the burgeoning field of nonverbal communication, have already demonstrated a promising new line of research to embed the study on nonverbal communication within an evolutionary and socio-adaptive perspective.

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**Author details**

Xiaoming Jiang

*Introductory Chapter: On the Road towards the Social-Adaptive Implication of Nonverbal…*

Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University, China

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*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99869*

*Introductory Chapter: On the Road towards the Social-Adaptive Implication of Nonverbal… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99869*
