Stories of gesture and sign language, HCI, perception and robots
Spykee is a fairly new robot by Meccano, which explains why you need to assemble it from a bunch of plastic and metal parts. AvB describes the assembly quite well on his blog.
Does Spykee actually ‘do’ anything of its own?
For me, it is a bit weird to see that somehow Meccano managed to transform the idea [...]
At a 1998 conference called Oralité et gestualite (ORAGE 98). Communication multimodale, interaction. Actes du colloque. Cornelia Mueller presented a paper on Iconicity and Gesture (1998). The ideas already present in this paper about how the hands construct iconicity were important in the lecture she gave last week together with Alan Cienki on Metonymy in Metaphoric [...]
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