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Referential gestures emerge early during children’s development. Growing up, they gradually master several multimodal resources and elaborate more complex discourse, using referring expressions often accompanied by gestures that increasingly correspond ...
Corrado Bellifemine, Camille Dupret
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Rhythmic Micro-Gestures: Discreet Interaction On-the-Go [PDF]
We present rhythmic micro-gestures, micro-movements of the hand that are repeated in time with a rhythm. We present a user study that investigated how well users can perform rhythmic micro-gestures and if they can use them eyes-free with non-visual ...
Brewster, Stephen+2 more
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Prosody in the Auditory and Visual Domains: A Developmental Perspective
The development of body movements such as hand or head gestures, or facial expressions, seems to go hand-in-hand with the development of speech abilities.
Núria Esteve-Gibert, Bahia Guellaï
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In English, emphasis may be put on various elements of the sentence, one of them being the validation of the predicative relation (PR), leading to what is known as the "emphatic form" in an affirmative context.
Caroline David+2 more
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The use and function of gestures in word-finding difficulties in aphasia [PDF]
Background: Gestures are spontaneous hand and arm movements that are part of everyday communication. The roles of gestures in communication are disputed. Most agree that they augment the information conveyed in speech. More contentiously, some argue that
Dipper, L., Kistner, J., Marshall, J.
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It's A Match! Gesture Generation Using Expressive Parameter Matching [PDF]
Automatic gesture generation from speech generally relies on implicit modelling of the nondeterministic speech-gesture relationship and can result in averaged motion lacking defined form. Here, we propose a database-driven approach of selecting gestures based on specific motion characteristics that have been shown to be associated with the speech audio.
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Deaf and hearing children's picture naming Impact of age of acquisition and language modality on representational gesture [PDF]
Stefanini, Bello, Caselli, Iverson, & Volterra (2009) reported that Italian 24-36 month old children use a high proportion of representational gestures to accompany their spoken responses when labelling pictures.
England, R.+5 more
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Iterative Design of Gestures During Elicitation: Understanding the Role of Increased Production [PDF]
Previous gesture elicitation studies have found that user proposals are influenced by legacy bias which may inhibit users from proposing gestures that are most appropriate for an interaction. Increasing production during elicitation studies has shown promise moving users beyond legacy gestures.
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Learning an Orchestra Conductor's Technique Using a Wearable Sensor Platform [PDF]
Our study focuses on finding new input devices for a system allowing users with any skill to configure and conduct a virtual orchestra in real-time. As a first step, we conducted a user study to learn more about the interaction between a conductor's ...
Bruegge, Bernd+4 more
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Explorations in engagement for humans and robots [PDF]
This paper explores the concept of engagement, the process by which individuals in an interaction start, maintain and end their perceived connection to one another.
Kidd, Cory+4 more
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