GeSpIn is an interdisciplinary event for researchers working on the interaction between speech and visual communicative signals, such as articulatory, manual, and bodily gestures co-occurring with speech. At GeSpIn 2023 we hope to bring together researchers working on visual signals together with vocalization or speech, from multidisciplinary perspectives in order to exchange ideas and present the cutting edge of their field. This 8th edition of GeSpIn will be held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and will focus on the theme of “Broadening Perspectives, Integrating Views: Towards General Principles of Multimodal Signaling Systems”.
As such, we encourage researchers working on (multimodal) prosody, social anthropology, philosophy, (psycho)linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, human movement science, computer science (e.g., human-computer interaction), comparative biology, and more to submit their research to address topics such as:
Do principles of speech-gesture interaction generalize to, or
interact with, other multimodal interactions and forms of audiovisual
integration (e.g., speech interacting with head gestures or facial
signals)?
What methods in computer science can be used to characterize and
synthesize the (temporal) interactions between speech and gesture,
within and between agents?
How is speech-gesture coupling influenced by the immediate
dialogic context (e.g., behavior of the interlocutor, or speech act
being performed)
Can multimodal signaling as studied in non-human animals teach us
something fundamental about multimodal communication systems that also
applies to humans?
What can cross-linguistic comparisons of speech-gesture
interaction teach us about the underlying principles of multimodal
coordination?
Development of gesture-speech coordination: Can general
principles of development be identified? Are there sensitive periods and
developmental stages?
What is the role of basic biomechanical or neural processes in
visual and auditory signaling and the perception of said multimodal
signals?
Please note that all researchers and theoreticians/philosophers
working on the interaction between gesture/visual and sound-producing
cues (e.g., in terms of pragmatics, prosody, semantics) should feel
invited, also if their particular study does not fit these topics
exactly.
Organizers
Wim Pouw & James Trujillo (main contacts:
wim.pouw@donders.ru.nl/
james.trujillo@donders.ru.nl)
Hans Rutger Bosker
Linda Drijvers
Marieke Hoetjes
Judith Holler
Lieke van Maastricht
Ivy Mok
Ezgi Mamus
Asli Ozyurek
Junior Committee Chairs
Ezgi Mamus
Ivy Mok
Sarka Kadava
Website
Sarka Kadava
Wim Pouw