A mix of posts on gesture, HCI, perception or robots and some personal information.
A wonderfull new video on YouTube of two guys (programmers, it says) talking and ‘co-speech-gesturing’ (is that a verb?).
“Real programmers use sign language” (by ekabanov)
I think it is safe to assume that it is for real. Their whole behaviour looks too natural and wacky to be scripted.
I also think this is a great case [...]
I am going to try and coin some definitions regarding gestures.
A gesture is any act, except speech, by which we intend to communicate something beyond the act itself
This definition includes all normal gestures, that have meaning (the message that was communicated intentionally) because of cultural conventions (including languages) or iconicity, and all such acts (like [...]
Hero of the ‘once nearly lost art of pantomime’, Marcel Marceau (images), has recently died at the age of 84.
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A nice tribute (proceed to many others at YouTube at your leisure)
Mime Marceau was born as Marcel Mangel in Strasbourg, France. He died on September 22 this year. From what I gather of the many tributes [...]
There is a funny little gesture story in the news these days. It is about a guard who is making little gestures (and doing a little dance) while he is supposed to be standing very still.
The peak of the stroke of a wanker gesture? (source)
On the YouTube: Buckingham Palace Plonker. “Shocking behavior by one of [...]
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