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Head shakes in spoken and signed interaction using CV

Project description

Head shakes in spoken and signed interaction using CV

In this project, we analyze phonetic properties of headshake expressing negation in DGS, RSL, PJM and spoken German, Russian and Polish using OpenFace. This study is a part of a larger project on headshakes led by Vadim Kimmelman

Collaboration with: Anna Kuder, Vadim Kimmelman, Roland Pfau, Marloes Oomen

Latest outcome

Bauer, Anastasia, Anna Kuder, Marc Schulder & Job Schepens (in prep). Exploring the Influence of Communicative Function on Nonmanual Gesture’s Form: insights from the study on head nods in spoken German and DGS.

Bauer, Anastasia, Anna Kuder, Marc Schulder & Job Schepens. 2024. Phonetic differences between affirmative and feedback head nods in German Sign Language (DGS): A pose estimation study. PLOS ONE 19(5): e0304040. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304040

Bauer, Anastasia, Kuder, Anna, Schulder, Marc, & Job Schepens. 2024. Supplementary materials for "Phonetic differences between affirmative and feedback head nods in German Sign Language (DGS): A pose estimation study" (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10838848