In everyday communication, people not only use speech but also hand gestures to convey information. One intriguing question in gesture research has been why gestures take the specific form they do. Previous research has identified the speaker-gesturer’s communicative intent as one factor shaping the form of iconic gestures. Here we investigate whether communicative intent also shapes the form o...

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This paper describes Kontrol, a new hand interface that extends the intuitive control of electronic music to traditional instrumentalist and dancers. The goal of the authors has been to provide users with a device that is capable of detecting the highly intricate and expressive gestures of the master performer, in order for that information to be interpreted and used for control of electronic m...

People’s memory for an event is known to be affected by their verbal descriptions prior to memory assessment. The present experiment investigated whether the computational difficulty of production itself, which is known to affect what people say, can shape descriptions and subsequent event memory. Participants viewed simple scenes and were asked to describe them using either speech or silent ge...

Article history: Received 11 August 2008 Received in revised form 6 January 2009 Accepted 12 January 2009