TY - BOOK AU - Efthimiou,Eleni AU - Kouroupetroglou,Georgios AU - Fotinea,Stavroula-Evita TI - 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 SN - 9783642341823 PY - 2012/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Computer science KW - Multimedia information systems KW - User interfaces (Computer systems) KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Computer graphics KW - Image processing KW - Pattern recognition N1 - Human Computer Interaction -- Gestures in Assisted Living Environments -- Using Wiimote for 2D and 3D Pointing Tasks: Gesture Performance Evaluation -- Choosing and Modeling the Hand Gesture Database for a Natural User Interface -- User Experience of Gesture Based Interfaces: A Comparison with Traditional Interaction Methods on Pragmatic and Hedonic Qualities -- Low Cost Force-Feedback Interaction with Haptic Digital Audio Effects -- Cognitive Processes -- The Role of Spontaneous Gestures in Spatial Problem Solving -- Effects of Spectral Features of Sound on Gesture Type and Timing -- Human-Motion Saliency in Complex Scenes -- What, Why, Where and How Do Children Think? Towards a Dynamic Model of Spatial Cognition as Action -- Notation Systems and Animation A Labanotation Based Ontology for Representing Dance Movement -- ISOcat Data Categories for Signed Language Resources -- Assessing Agreement on Segmentations by Means of Staccato, the Segmentation Agreement Calculator according to Thomann -- How Do Iconic Gestures Convey Visuo-Spatial Information? Bringing Together Empirical, Theoretical, and Simulation Studies -- Thumb Modelling for the Generation of Sign Language -- Gestures and Signs: Linguistic Analysis and Tools Toward a Motor Theory of Sign Language Perception -- Analysis and Description of Blinking in French Sign Language for Automatic Generation -- Grammar/Prosody Modelling in Greek Sign Language: Towards the Definition of Built-In Sign Synthesis Rules -- Combining Two Synchronisation Methods in a Linguistic Model to Describe Sign Language -- Sign Segmentation Using Dynamics and Hand Configuration for Semi-automatic Annotation of Sign Language Corpora -- Gestures and Speech Integration of Gesture and Verbal Language: A Formal Semantics Approach -- Generating Co-speech Gestures for the Humanoid Robot NAO through BML -- Interaction between Speech and Gesture: Strategies for Pointing to Distant Objects -- Making Space for Interaction: Architects Design Dialogues -- Iconic Gestures in Face-to-Face TV Interviews UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34182-3 ER -