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Making Space for Interaction: Architects Design Dialogues

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Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction and Embodied Communication (GW 2011)

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This exploratory research has taken a set of theoretical concepts as the basis for testing a visualisation of body-centric gesture space: 1). Kendon’s transactional segments, 2). the manubrium as a central anatomical marker for bodily movement, and 3). physical reach space. Using these, a 3D model of gesture space has been designed in order to be applied to empirical data from architects design meetings, articulating the role of gesture space overlaps within the interaction.

Multi-dimensional drawing techniques have resulted in detailed visualisations of these overlaps. Illustrations show that the dialogue contributions can be mapped to distinct locations in the changing shared spaces, creating a spatial framework for the analysis and visualisation of the multi-dimensional topology of the interaction. This paper discusses a Case Study where this type of modelling can be applied empirically, indexing speech and gesture to the drawing subspaces of a group of architects.

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    Eleni Efthimiou

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    Georgios Kouroupetroglou

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Heath, C.P.R., Healey, P.G.T. (2012). Making Space for Interaction: Architects Design Dialogues. In: Efthimiou, E., Kouroupetroglou, G., Fotinea, SE. (eds) Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction and Embodied Communication. GW 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7206. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34182-3_23

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