Cognitive Semiotics Gesture Lab

 

Interdisciplinary Gesture Research Lab equipped with VICON Motion-Capture technology

Video/MoCap overlay of idalogue + gesture diagram

Video/MoCap overlay of idalogue + gesture diagram

two people talking with each other

Video/MoCap overlay of idalogue + gesture diagram

view of the motion capture room

Gesture lab volume (Theaterplatz)

person with reflective markers

Optical marker set

stickfigure of markers

Stick-figure for behavorial & neuro-imaging experiments

person sitting on a chair and movement trajectory

Gestural expression of an habitual activity

(Hinnell & Mittelberg 2015; Schüller et al. 2017)

two stickfigures of markersets and the hand trajectory

Gestural diagram of a travel intinerary through Europe

(Mittelberg 2017; Schüller & Mittelberg 2018; Mittelberg & Rekittke fc.))

two persons in front of PC Copyright: © Hannah Rost

Discussing labeled data in Vicon Nexus.

 

Director: Prof. Dr. Irene Mittelberg

 

Lab established 2010, financed by the Excellence Initiative, Phase I&II (HumTec)

 
 

Motion-capture technology

lab room with discription Copyright: © Mathias Pristers

3D-capturing of communicative

body postures,

head & hand/arm movements

  1. Participant
  2. Interviewer
  3. MoCap-Operator
  4. Infrared cameras
  5. High-speed cameras
  6. DV camera
  7. HD camera