Intelligent masking of non-verbal cues during a video communication

A computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to identify a user within streaming data of a video communication;
• program instructions to determine a triggering event is present in the streaming data of the video communication, wherein the triggering event is an occurrence of a set of conditions that cause the user to perform a non-verbal cue;
• in response to determining that the triggering event is present in the streaming data of the video communication, program instructions to identify the non-verbal cue by the user included in the streaming data of the video communication;
• program instructions to determine whether the identified non-verbal cue corresponds to an excluded category of actions for the video communication;
• and
• in response to determining that the identified non-verbal cue corresponds to an excluded category of actions for the video communication, program instructions to mask the identified non-verbal cue by overlaying a substitute representation of the user over the user in the streaming data of the video communication.

A computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• one or more computer readable storage media;
• and
• program instructions stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to identify a user within streaming data of a video communication;
• program instructions to determine a triggering event is present in the streaming data of the video communication, wherein the triggering event is an occurrence of a set of conditions that cause the user to perform a non-verbal cue;
• in response to determining that the triggering event is present in the streaming data of the video communication, program instructions to identify the non-verbal cue by the user included in the streaming data of the video communication;
• program instructions to determine whether the identified non-verbal cue corresponds to an excluded category of actions for the video communication;
• and
• in response to determining that the identified non-verbal cue corresponds to an excluded category of actions for the video communication, program instructions to mask the identified non-verbal cue by overlaying a substitute representation of the user over the user in the streaming data of the video communication.