Stories of gesture and sign language, HCI, perception and robots
The TU Delft sent out a press release about my PhD work and PhD defense next monday and that of Jeroen Lichtenauer, who is defending this afternoon, 15:00u Aula TU Delft. And Gineke ten Holt is the third promovenda who is still working on the project (having started later).
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Keynote: Antonio Camurri (also here)
Toward computational models of empathy and emotional entrainment
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Camurri has already done a lot of interesting work on movement and gesture, all of it in the ‘expressive corner’, working with dance and with music.
He just talked about a really nice application: He created a system to [...]
Isabel Galhano Rodrigues:
Gesture choreography and gesture space in european vs. african portuguese interactions
her page.
She talked about cultural differences, regarding proxemics, regarding ‘touch gestures’.
Hmmm, she just showed two really nice videos, one with Portuguese students and one with Angolese students, who also talk Portuguese. They differ quite a lot in their gesturing, in the sense of [...]
Patrick G. T. Healey, Chris Frauenberger, Marco Gillies & Stuart Battersby:
Experimenting with non-verbal interaction
For me personally, one of the more interesting posters was explained to me by Stuart Battersby (his page), of Queen Mary, University of London. He was working on theory from Interaction Studies, whcih I would also like to apply in robotics. He [...]
Judith Holler & Katie Wilkin:
Gesture use on common ground
Her page.
Thank god, she starts off by stating that the grand theories about why we gesture are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Hear, hear!
Nice explanation about common ground. What is it and how do people build up common ground between them. And how people adjust their speech as [...]
Keiko Yoshioka:
Gestural reference to space by speakers of typologically different languages
some publication here and here
This talk was introduced by De Ruiter as a nice follow-up on Asli’s talk. Keiko is introducing Talmy’s theory about ’sattelite-framed languages’ (English, Dutch, Chinese) versus ‘verb-framed languages’ (Spanish, etc). She explains how, in a verb-framed languages it is less easy [...]
Keynote: Asli Özyürek
The role of gesture in production and comprehension of language: Insights from behavior and brain
Asli is giving a good keynote, presenting a good overview of current gesture theory. I do have some trouble to follow her presentation of two different ‘grand hypotheses’ about gestures and speech. She seems to polarize the work on [...]
Jérémie Segouat & Annelies Braffort:
Toward modeling sign language coarticulation
I promised to refer Mister Segouat to early work on sign languages that also treat the rich aspects of the signed languages:
1. The historical overview in the first chapters of Kendon (2004), Gesture, visible action as utterance
2. Wilhelm Wundt, The Language of Gestures (e.g. 1973 English edition)
3. [...]
Hedda Lausberg, Uta Sassenberg:
The Neuropsychological Gesture Coding System (NGCS)
Uta und Hedda are presenting a system to annotate gestures that was developed for psychiatry. Hedda was referring to coding the beginning and the ending of the movement and how this leads to a certain interrater agreement. It reminds me of the time I also needed to [...]
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