Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human Computer Interaction

1. Front Matter

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2. Analysis of Gesture

   1. The Role of Iconic Gestures in Production and Comprehension of Language: Evidence from Brain and Behavior

      • Asli Özyürek

      Pages 1-10

   2. Speakers’ Use of Interactive Gestures as Markers of Common Ground

      • Judith Holler

      Pages 11-22

   3. Gesture Space and Gesture Choreography in European Portuguese and African Portuguese Interactions: A Pilot Study of Two Cases

      • Isabel Galhano Rodrigues

      Pages 23-33

3. Concepts of Gesture

   1. The Embodied Morphemes of Gaze

      • Isabella Poggi, Francesca D’Errico, Alessia Spagnolo

      Pages 34-46

   2. On Factoring Out a Gesture Typology from the Bielefeld Speech-and-Gesture-Alignment Corpus (SAGA)

      • Hannes Rieser

      Pages 47-60

   3. Function and Form of Gestures in a Collaborative Design Meeting

      • Willemien Visser

      Pages 61-72

4. Gesture Recognition

   1. Continuous Realtime Gesture Following and Recognition

      • Frédéric Bevilacqua, Bruno Zamborlin, Anthony Sypniewski, Norbert Schnell, Fabrice Guédy, Nicolas Rasamimanana

      Pages 73-84

   2. Multiscale Detection of Gesture Patterns in Continuous Motion Trajectories

      • Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Laurent Grisoni, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc

      Pages 85-97

   3. Recognition of Gesture Sequences in Real-Time Flow, Context of Virtual Theater

      • Ronan Billon, Alexis Nédélec, Jacques Tisseau

      Pages 98-109

   4. Deictic Gestures with a Time-of-Flight Camera

      • Martin Haker, Martin Böhme, Thomas Martinetz, Erhardt Barth

      Pages 110-121

5. Gesture Processing

   1. Towards Analysis of Expressive Gesture in Groups of Users: Computational Models of Expressive Social Interaction

      • Antonio Camurri, Giovanna Varni, Gualtiero Volpe

      Pages 122-133

   2. On Gestural Variation and Coarticulation Effects in Sound Control

      • Tommaso Bianco, Vincent Freour, Nicolas Rasamimanana, Frederic Bevilaqua, René Caussé

      Pages 134-145

   3. Gesture Saliency: A Context-Aware Analysis

      • Matei Mancas, Donald Glowinski, Gualtiero Volpe, Paolo Coletta, Antonio Camurri

      Pages 146-157

   4. Towards a Gesture-Sound Cross-Modal Analysis

      • Baptiste Caramiaux, Frédéric Bevilacqua, Norbert Schnell

      Pages 158-170

   5. Methods for Effective Sonification of Clarinetists’ Ancillary Gestures

      • Florian Grond, Thomas Hermann, Vincent Verfaille, Marcelo M. Wanderley

      Pages 171-181

6. Gesture Simulation

   1. Systematicity and Idiosyncrasy in Iconic Gesture Use: Empirical Analysis and Computational Modeling

      • Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp

      Pages 182-194

   2. To Beat or Not to Beat: Beat Gestures in Direction Giving

      • Mariët Theune, Chris J. Brandhorst

      Pages 195-206

   3. Requirements for a Gesture Specification Language

      • Alexis Heloir, Michael Kipp

      Pages 207-218

   4. Statistical Gesture Models for 3D Motion Capture from a Library of Gestures with Variants

      • Zhenbo Li, Patrick Horain, André-Marie Pez, Catherine Pelachaud

      Pages 219-230

The International Gesture Workshops (GW) are interdisciplinary events for those researching gesture-based communication across the disciplines. The focus of these events is a shared interest in understanding gestures and sign language in their many facets, and using them for advancing human–machine interaction. Since 1996, International Gesture Workshops have been held roughly every second year, with fully reviewed proceedings published by Springer. The International Gesture Workshop GW 2009 was hosted by Bielefeld University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF – Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung) during February 25–27, 2009. Like its predecessors, GW 2009 aimed to provide a platform for participants to share, discuss, and criticize recent and novel research with a multidisciplinary audience. More than 70 computer scientists, linguistics, psychologists, neuroscientists as well as dance and music scientists from 16 countries met to present and exchange their newest results under the umbrella theme “Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human–Computer Interaction. ” Consistent with the steady growth of research activity in this area, a large number of high-quality submissions were received, which made GW 2009 an exciting and important event for anyone interested in gesture-related technological research relevant to human–computer interaction. In line with the practice of previous gesture workshops, presenters were invited to submit theirs papers for publication in a subsequent peer-reviewed publication of high quality. The present book is the outcome of this effort. Representing the research work from eight countries, it contains a selection of 28 thoroughly reviewed articles.

• Design
• Interaction
• Interface
• behavior
• cognition
• control
• gesture recognition
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• modeling
• simulation
• user interface

• CITEC, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

  Stefan Kopp

• Artificial Intelligence Group, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

  Ipke Wachsmuth

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