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The International Gesture Workshops (GW) are interdisciplinary
events for those researching gesture-based communication across the
disciplines. The focus of these events is a shared interest in
understanding gestures and sign language in their many facets, and
using them for advancing human-machine interaction. Since 1996,
International Gesture Workshops have been held roughly every second
year, with fully reviewed proceedings published by Springer. The
International Gesture Workshop GW 2009 was hosted by Bielefeld
University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF - Zentrum
fur interdisziplinare Forschung) during February 25-27, 2009. Like
its predecessors, GW 2009 aimed to provide a platform for
participants to share, discuss, and criticize recent and novel
research with a multidisciplinary audience. More than 70 computer
scientists, linguistics, psychologists, neuroscientists as well as
dance and music scientists from 16 countries met to present and
exchange their newest results under the umbrella theme "Gesture in
Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction. " Consistent
with the steady growth of research activity in this area, a large
number of high-quality submissions were received, which made GW
2009 an exciting and important event for anyone interested in
gesture-related technological research relevant to human-computer
interaction. In line with the practice of previous gesture
workshops, presenters were invited to submit theirs papers for
publication in a subsequent peer-reviewed publication of high
quality. The present book is the outcome of this effort.
Representing the research work from eight countries, it contains a
selection of 28 thoroughly reviewed articles.
Embodied agents play an increasingly important role in cognitive
interaction technology. The two main types of embodied agents are
virtual humans inhabiting simulated environments and humanoid
robots inhabiting the real world. So far research on embodied
communicative agents has mainly explored their potential for
practical applications. However, the design of communicative
artificial agents can also be of great heuristic value for the
scientific study of communication. It allows researchers to
isolate, implement, and test essential properties of inter-agent
communications in operational models. Modeling communication with
robots and virtual humans thus involves the vision of using
communicative machines as research tools. Artificial systems that
reproduce certain aspects of natural, multimodal communication help
to elucidate the internal mechanisms that give rise to different
aspects of communication. In short, constructing embodied agents
who are able to communicate may help us to understand the
principles of human communication. As a comprehensive theme,
"Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines" was taken up by an
international research group hosted by Bielefeld University's
Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF - Zentrum fur
interdisziplinare Forschung) from October 2005 through September
2006. The overarching goal of this research year was to develop an
integrated perspective of embodiment in communication, establishing
bridges between lower-level, sensorimotor functions and a range of
higher-level, communicative functions involving language and bodily
action. The present volume grew out of a workshop that took place
during April 5-8, 2006 at the ZiF as a part of the research year on
embodied communication."
This volume presents important results of the Collaborative
Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) "Situated Artificial
Communicators," which was funded by grants from the German Research
Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for more than twelve
years. The contributions focus on different aspects of human-human
and human-machine interaction in situations which closely model
everyday workplace demands. The authors are linguists, psycho- und
neurolinguists, psychologists and computer scientists at Bielefeld
University. They jointly tackle questions of information processing
in task-oriented communication. The role of key notions such as
context, integration (of multimodal information), reference,
coherence, and robustness is explored in great depth. Some
remarkable findings and recurrent phenomena reveal that
communication is, to a large extent, a matter of joint activity.
The interdisciplinary approach integrates theory, description and
experimentation with simulation and evaluation.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Gesture and Sign Languages in Human-Computer Interaction, GW 2001, held in London, UK, in April 2001.The 25 revised full papers and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the post-proceedings. The papers are organized in topical sections on gesture recognition, recognition of sign languages, nature and notations of sign languages, gesture and sign language synthesis, gestural action and interaction, and applications based on gesture control.
This book presents the thoroughly refereed post-workshop
proceedings of an International Workshop on Gesture and Sign
Language in Human-Computer Interaction held in Bielefeld, Germany,
in 1997.
The book presents 25 revised papers together with two invited
lectures. Recently, gesture and sign language have become key
issues for advanced interface design in the humanization of
computer interaction: AI, neural networks, pattern recognition, and
agent techniques are having a significant impact on this area of
research and development. The papers are organized in sections on
semiotics for gesture movement, hidden Markov models, motion
analysis and synthesis, multimodal interfaces, neural network
methods, and applications.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th Annual German
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI-95, held in Bielefeld in
September 1995.
The volume opens with full versions of four invited papers devoted
to the topic "From Intelligence Models to Intelligent Systems." The
main part of the book consists of 17 refereed full papers carefully
relected by the program committee; these papers are organized in
sections on knowledge organization and optimization, logic and
reasoning, nonmonotonicity, action and change, and spatial
reasoning.
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