Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction and Embodied Communication: 9th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2011, Athens, Greece, May 25-27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

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Gestures in Assisted Living Environments....Pages 1-12
Using Wiimote for 2D and 3D Pointing Tasks: Gesture Performance Evaluation....Pages 13-23
Choosing and Modeling the Hand Gesture Database for a Natural User Interface....Pages 24-35
User Experience of Gesture Based Interfaces: A Comparison with Traditional Interaction Methods on Pragmatic and Hedonic Qualities....Pages 36-47
Low Cost Force-Feedback Interaction with Haptic Digital Audio Effects....Pages 48-56
The Role of Spontaneous Gestures in Spatial Problem Solving....Pages 57-68
Effects of Spectral Features of Sound on Gesture Type and Timing....Pages 69-80
Human-Motion Saliency in Complex Scenes....Pages 81-92
What, Why, Where and How Do Children Think? Towards a Dynamic Model of Spatial Cognition as Action....Pages 93-105
A Labanotation Based Ontology for Representing Dance Movement....Pages 106-117
ISOcat Data Categories for Signed Language Resources....Pages 118-128
Assessing Agreement on Segmentations by Means of Staccato , the Segmentation Agreement Calculator according to Thomann ....Pages 129-138
How Do Iconic Gestures Convey Visuo-Spatial Information? Bringing Together Empirical, Theoretical, and Simulation Studies....Pages 139-150
Thumb Modelling for the Generation of Sign Language....Pages 151-160
Toward a Motor Theory of Sign Language Perception....Pages 161-172
Analysis and Description of Blinking in French Sign Language for Automatic Generation....Pages 173-182
Grammar/Prosody Modelling in Greek Sign Language: Towards the Definition of Built-In Sign Synthesis Rules....Pages 183-193
Combining Two Synchronisation Methods in a Linguistic Model to Describe Sign Language....Pages 194-203
Sign Segmentation Using Dynamics and Hand Configuration for Semi-automatic Annotation of Sign Language Corpora....Pages 204-215
Integration of Gesture and Verbal Language: A Formal Semantics Approach....Pages 216-227
Generating Co-speech Gestures for the Humanoid Robot NAO through BML....Pages 228-237
Interaction between Speech and Gesture: Strategies for Pointing to Distant Objects....Pages 238-249
Making Space for Interaction: Architects Design Dialogues....Pages 250-261
Iconic Gestures in Face-to-Face TV Interviews....Pages 262-273
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