Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought

TL;DR: Examination of children making the transition from single words to two-word combinations found that gesture had a tight relation to the children's lexical and syntactic development.

TL;DR: Introduction 1. Historical-Philological Semantics 2. Structuralist Semantics 3. Generativist Semantics 4. NeostructuralistSemantics 5. Cognitive Semantics Conclusion References

TL;DR: The integrated-systems hypothesis is proposed, which explains two ways in which gesture and speech are integrated—through mutual and obligatory interactions—in language comprehension, and it is demonstrated that gesture andspeech form an integrated system in language comprehension.

TL;DR: The authors discusses the consequences and challenges of putting the body at the center of attention in social interaction, and proposes to consider the involvement of entire bodies in social interactions, overcoming a logo-centric vision of communication, as well as a visuo-centric view of embodiment.

TL;DR: A set of introductory exercises on vocal sketching, to probe the communication effectiveness of vocal imitations for design purposes, are presented and discussed, in the scope of the research-through-design workshop activities of the EU project SkAT-VG.

TL;DR: Computer animation of American Sign Language has the potential to remove many educational barriers for deaf students, because it provides a low-cost, effective means for adding sign language translation to any type of digital content.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that robot to human IET relies on the human having an expectation for, and hence recognition of, robot emotions; mimicry of valanced motion is not sufficient.

TL;DR: This thesis reports a mixedmethods study which provides empirical observations on the kinematic features evident in conducting practise, and which aims to explore the connection between such movements with compositional features and conductors’ interpretative intentions.