SYMPOSIUM 6

Measurement Methodologies in Gesture and Sign Language

Oral presentations
Thursday, August 17, 09:00-12:20, Small Auditorium
Chair: P. Wittenburg (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

09:00

J.P. de Ruiter (Cologne, Germany). The researcher as measurement device - on the dangers of 'coding' in gesture research.

09:20

D. McNeill and F. Quek (Dayton, OH, U.S.A.). Gesture and speech multimodal conversational interaction in monocular video.

09:40

J.C. Martin, A. Braffort and R. Gherbi (Orsay, France). Measurement of cooperation between pointing gestures and constrained speech during human-computer interaction.

10:00

I. Wachsmuth (Bielefeld, Germany). Multimodal interaction in virtual reality.

10:20

Coffee break

10:50

C. Neidle and S. Sclaroff (Boston, MA, U.S.A.). SignStream: a tool for linguistic and computational research on visual-gestural language data.

11:20

G. Bente (Cologne, Germany). Digital representation and experimental simulation of nonverbal behavior.

11:40

P. Wittenburg, H. Brugman, D. Broeder and A. Russel (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). Infrastructure to support gesture research.

12:00

H. Russel, D. Brugman, P. Broeder and P. Wittenburg (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). EUDICO: an annotation and exploitation tool for multi-media corpora.

Poster presentations and demonstrations
Thursday, August 17, 14:00-17:30

6.1.

F. Quek and D. McNeill (Dayton, OH, U.S.A.). A multimedia system for temporally situated perceptual psycholinguistic analysis.