A computational model of arm gestures in conversation
Dafydd Gibbon, Ulrike B. Gut, Benjamin Hell, Karin Looks, Alexandra Thies, Thorsten Trippel · 2003
Currently no standardised gesture annotation systems are available. As a contribution towards solving this problem, CoGesT, a machine processable and human usable computational model for the annotation of a subset of conversational gestures is presented, its empirical and formal properties are detailed, and application areas are discussed. 1. A gesture representation strategy There is as yet no standard generic transcription scheme for gestures, and researchers in the field tend to develop their own systems, based on rather specific research and development goals. Various classification schemes have been proposed (cf. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]), but none of these is particularly suitable for generalisation into a standard. We provide an initial solution to this problem by selecting a subset of gestures as a starting point,