
The Gesture Focus Group is an
interdisciplinary
forum for addressing
current directions in gesture
research. Our weekly meetings draw a
consistent and lively set of participants from the
Departments of Psychology, Linguistics, and
Computer Science, Philosophy, Theater Arts, and
Biology.
The purpose of the Gesture
Focus Group is threefold: (a)
to discuss recently published articles pertaining to
the role of non-verbal
modalities in interaction;
(b) to acquaint participants
with new methodologies
from various
disciplines for studying gesture production
and comprehension (e.g. eye-tracking, automated motion
capture, and microanalysis of hand movements and
speech); and (c) to generate
ideas and the means to develop projects
that participants would like to pursue, whether
collaboratively or on their
own.
|
A burgeoning community of young gesture researchers has emerged at Stony Brook in the last four years. The Gesture Focus Group, founded by Alexia Galati and Anna Kuhlen in 2005, is spearheading the effort of training these researchers through its reading group, lectures, and workshops. With events such as the Speaker's Series we hope not only to provide training for the regular members of the Gesture Focus Group, but also draw interest and participation of students from other departments (see Past Events below for more information). |
|
 |
|
Past
Events |
|
|
November 11th 2009 |
Guest Lecture:
"Studying the emergence of human communication systems in the laboratory."
|
|
Bruno Galantucci, Ph.D. (Yeshiva University and Haskins Laboratories)"
|
|
|
September 30th 2009 |
Guest Lecture:
"Does mimicry of co-speech gestures result from alignment in mental representations?"
|
|
Lisette Mol, Ph.D. candidate (Tilburg University)"
|
|
|
April 11th - 12th 2008
|
Speakers Series:
"Implications of
speech-gesture synchrony for theories of speech
production."
|
|
Susan
Duncan (University of Chicago) |
 |
|
|
March 24th 2008 |
Guest Lecture on cross-cultural and intra-cultural variations in gesture. |
|
Sedinha Tessendorf, European Viadrina University, Frankfurt, Germany |
|
|
March 3rd 2008 |
Guest Lecture:
"Lending a helping hand to hearing: Speech associated gestures and the relationship between Broca's area, the cortical motor system, and the mirror system."
|
|
Jeremy Skipper, Ph.D. |
|
|
December 5th 2007
|
Guest Lecture on shared intentionality and cooperation in animals. |
|
Richard Schuster, Ph.D. |
|
|
March 2nd - 3rd 2007 |
Speakers Series:
"Forms
and meanings of gestures: a linguistic approach to
the description and analysis of gestures"
|
|
Cornelia Muller
(European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder),
Germany) |
 |
|
|
December 1st- 3rd 2006
|
Speakers Series:
"Gesture structure: phases,
phrases and units"
|
|
Mandana
Seyfeddinipur (Stanford University) |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
last updated 1/16/10 |
|
|
|
|