Gesture, gaze and laughter

Gaze-induced laughter.

Pathological laughter was stimulated by pursuit eye movements with a large extramedullary brainstem tumour. Laughter was also evoked by intense direct light. The mechanism by which visual stimuli could induce pathological laughter is discussed.

Gesture, Gaze, and Ground

My emphasis in this paper is on floor control in multiparty discourse: the approach is psycholinguistic. This perspective includes turn management, turn exchange and coordination; how to recognize the dominant speaker even when he or she is not speaking, and a theory of all this. The data to be examined comprise a multimodal depiction of a 5-party meeting (a US Air Force war gaming session) and...

Gaze and Gesture Activity in Communication

Non-verbal communication is important in order to maintain fluency of communication. Gestures, facial expressions and eye-gazing function as nonverbal means to convey feedback and provide subtle cues to control and organise conversations. In this paper, verbal and non-verbal feedback are discussed from the point of view of how they contribute to the communicative activity in conversations, espe...

Gesture, Gaze, Touch, and Hesitation: Timing Cues for Collaborative Work

When multiple agents interact in order to perform a collaborative task, conflicts will arise over access to shared resources or when one agent’s ability to act relies on the actions of another agent. In such cases, even perfectly cooperative agents will encounter problems due to imperfect knowledge of each other’s behavior, requiring them to communicate with each other. The CHARM project seeks ...

Understanding multimodal deixis with gaze and gesture in conversational interfaces