scholarly journals The emancipation of gestures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Streeck
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Conceptual Representation ◽  
Hand Gestures ◽  
Interactional Linguistics ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Communication Needs

Abstract Interactional linguists are interested in ways in which communicative resources emerge from interactional practice. This paper defines a place for the study of gesture within interactional linguistics, conceived as ‘linguistics of time’ (Hopper, 2015). It shows how hand gestures of a certain kind – conceptual gestures – emerge from ‘hands-on’ instrumental actions, are repeated and habitualized, and are taken to other communicative contexts where they enable displaced reference and conceptual representation of experiences. The data for this study is a video-recording of one work-day of an auto-shop owner (Streeck, 2017). The corpus includes auto-repair sequences in which he spontaneously improvises new gestures in response to situated communication needs, and subsequent narrative sequences during which he re-enacts them as he explains his prior actions. He also makes numerous ‘pre-fabricated’ gestures, gestures that circulate in the society at large and that are acquired by copying other conversationalists. They are ready-made manual concepts. The paper explains the life-cycle of conceptual gestures from spontaneous invention to social sedimentation and thereby sheds light on the ongoing emergence of symbolic forms in corporeal practice and intercorporeal communication.

scholarly journals Two Ends of the Leash: Relations Between Personality of Shelter Volunteers and On-leash Walking Behavior With Shelter Dogs

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao-Yu Shih ◽  
Mandy B. A. Paterson ◽  
Fillipe Georgiou ◽  
Leander Mitchell ◽  
Nancy A. Pachana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Video Recording ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Hand Gestures ◽  
Walking Behavior ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
Shelter Dogs ◽  
Neo Five Factor Inventory ◽  
And Behavior

Human personality influences the way people interact with dogs. This study investigated the associations between the personality of animal shelter volunteers and behavior during on-leash walks with shelter dogs. Video recording and a canine leash tension meter were used to monitor the on-leash walking. Personality was measured in five dimensions (neurotic, extroverted, open, agreeable and conscientious) with the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). Neurotic volunteers pulled the leash harder and tended to interact with dogs using more body language; dogs being walked by neurotic volunteers in turn displayed more lip-licking and body shaking and were more likely to be rated as well-behaved. Extroverted volunteers were associated with stronger maximal leash tension at both the human and dog ends of the leash, and they praised the dog more, often in a high pitched voice. These volunteers eliciting more tail-wagging and body shaking by the dog. Extroverted volunteers were also more tolerant of different dog behaviors. Volunteers with personalities characterized by “openness to experiences” were less likely to verbally attract the attention of dogs, praise dogs and talk to them in a high-pitched voice; however, dogs walked by these volunteers were more likely to pull on the leash, and engaged in more lip-licking but less sniffing. “Agreeable” volunteers liked to verbally attract the attention of the dogs and more commonly initiated hand gestures and physical contact, causing the dogs to pull less frequently; dogs in these dyads displayed more gazing and lip-licking behaviors. Conscientious volunteers were less likely to pull the leash and tended to have more physical contact with the dogs but did not favor verbal communication and did not use a high pitched voice.

scholarly journals COMPARING LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT, CIRCULARITY AND SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE DESIGN: RESULTS FROM A HANDS-ON PROJECT WITH 87 ENGINEERING STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 681-690
Author(s):  
Michael Saidani ◽  
Mariia Kravchenko ◽  
François Cluzel ◽  
Daniela Pigosso ◽  
Yann Leroy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Do So

AbstractConsidering a growing number of metrics and indicators to assess circular economy, it is of paramount importance to shed light on how they differ from traditional approaches, such as life cycle assessment (LCA) or sustainability performance indicators. This study provides new empirical insights on the correlation between LCA, circularity, and sustainability indicator-based approaches. Specifically, the importance lies in analyzing how the results generated by these different approaches can be used to support the design of products that are not only circular, but also sustainable. A practice-based project involving 87 engineering students (divided into 20 groups) is conducted with the aim to compare and improve the circularity and sustainability performance of three product alternatives of lawn mowers (gasoline, electric, autonomous). To do so, the following resources are deployed: 18 midpoints environmental indicators calculated by LCA, eight product circularity indicators, and numerous leading sustainability indicators. Critical analyses on the usability, time efficiency, scientific soundness, and robustness of each approach are drawn, combining quantitative results generated by each group with the feedback of future engineers.

scholarly journals Language resources to be used in teaching of LSP and specialised translation: Annual Reports in the banking sector as ad-hoc parallel and comparable corpora, in English, French and Greek

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
ELENI TZIAFA
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Business English ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Comparable Corpora ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Communication Needs ◽  
User Friendly

<p class="Abstract"><span lang="EN-GB">This study investigates the use of corpora in teaching of LSP and specialised translation, summarising the findings of the analysis of Annual Reports in the banking sector in English, French and Greek. </span>The objectives of this study are: i. to connect texts and translations from these three languages, whereas English, serving as an intermediate language will help us make the proper choices of terms in Greek and French financial choices, based on informed choices of professional translators, ii. to prepare teaching materials tailored to the communication needs of students of economics or participants of business English courses, as a result of a contrastive linguistic research on the basis of parallel and comparable corpora. For this purpose, we apply easy to use and appealing concordance programs, so that teachers and learners are not put off from working with corpora because the software is too complex or not user-friendly enough. Both teachers and learners would profit a lot more from getting their hands on corpora themselves.</p><p class="Abstract"> </p><p class="Abstract"> </p><p class="Abstract"> </p>

Promoting Academic Achievement for Early Communicators of All Ages

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 173-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Geist ◽  
Penny Hatch ◽  
Karen Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Symbolic Communication ◽  
Significant Cognitive Disabilities ◽  
Symbolic Representations ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
The Common ◽  
Ongoing Development ◽  
Communication Needs

A review of best practices and recent research efforts provide guidance for serving school-age early communicators with complex communication needs (CCN) and significant cognitive disabilities (SCD). Our aim as SLPs working with students with CCN and SCD is to support the development of intentional and symbolic communication abilities and implement augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems that provide the means for interaction with a range of partners for varied purposes on a myriad of topics. Consistent exposure to knowledgeable communication partners who respond in meaningful ways to expressive behaviors leads the way for learning to use symbolic forms of communication. It is through our instruction and aided language input across a range of contexts that our students with SCD learn and assign meaning to the symbolic representations we teach. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have heightened expectations about what students with SCD should know and be able to do and offer contexts that emphasize communication as an integral part of learning. Meeting these expectations through active participation and interaction in all learning activities requires reliable access to systems of communication that support ongoing development of abilities as a speaker, listener, reader, and writer.

scholarly journals An Interactive and Predictive Pre-diagnostic Model for Healthcare based on Data Provenance

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Zhwan Namiq Ahmed ◽  
Jamal Ali Hussien
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Model ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Diagnostic Model ◽  
Data Provenance ◽  
Hand Gestures ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Network Metrics ◽  
Future Plans

The future of healthcare may look completely different from the current clinic-center services.  Rapidly growing and developing technologies are expected to change clinics throughout the world. However, the healthcare delivered to impaired patients, such as elderly and disabled people, possibly still requires hands-on human expertise. The aim of this study is to propose a predictive model that pre-diagnose illnesses by analyzing symptoms that are interactively taken from patients via several hand gestures during a period of time. This is particularly helpful in assisting clinicians and doctors to gain better understanding and make more accurate decisions about future plans for their patients’ situations. The hand gestures are detected, the time of the gesture is recorded and then they are associated to their designated symptoms. This information is captured in the form of provenance graphs constructed based on the W3C PROV data model. The provenance graph is analyzed by extracting several network metrics and then supervised machine-learning algorithms are used to build a predictive model. The model is used to predict diseases from the symptoms with a maximum accuracy of 84.5%.

scholarly journals “The Frieze of Life” by Edvard Munch: Philosophical and Art Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 1295-1315
Author(s):  
Natalia N. Seredkina ◽  
Anastasia V. Kistova ◽  
Natalia N. Pimenova
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
World View ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Art World ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
Art Analysis ◽  
Edvard Munch

The article presents a philosophical and art analysis of three paintings by the Norwegian artist E. Munch, namely “Melancholy” (1891–1892), “Separation” (1896), “The Dance of Life” (1899–1900), included in the “The Frieze of Life” cycle. The purpose of the analysis was to uncover the artistic ideas of each of the selected works and to identify the general conceptual basis of the artist’s work. As a result of the methodological analysis of the paintings, it was substantiated that the work of E. Munch, firstly, is fundamentally consistent, in the sense that each work should be considered as part of the painter’s holistic art world view; secondly, the dominant compositional features of the works, relating them to the style space of Areo-romanticism, are highlighted; thirdly, such a characteristic of E. Munch’s creativity as a programmatic approach is revealed, which is expressed in the embodiment of the deep meanings of human life through the sign-symbolic forms of works

scholarly journals Applying integrated video assisted learning approaches for medical clerkship – potential adaptations in the post-COVID-19 era

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 238212052096304
Author(s):  
Ahmed Yaqinuddin ◽  
Junaid Kashir ◽  
Wael AlKattan ◽  
Khaled AlKattan
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Teaching ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Web Conferencing ◽  
Medicine Clerkship ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Global Coordination

Lockdowns and social distancing measures due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have forced the delivery and assessment of educational material to be performed via online and virtual educational tools. Such disruption has greatly affected hands-on training programs essential to acquire clinical competencies, particularly modes requiring physical patient encounters. While most educational content has successfully been shifted to predominantly web-conferencing platforms, the essential clinical teaching at affiliated hospitals for undergraduate medicine clerkship years has been severely disrupted due to barring of students from hospital premises to minimise spread of COVID-19, presenting a problem requiring unique solutions to ensure that quality of education and subsequent healthcare is kept sufficiently high. To this degree, technological advances increasingly present several elegant solutions which may provide the required levels of educational delivery. In this article, we briefly discuss the number of options that could be deployed to aid in acquisition of requisite skills during the clerkship years, with a focus on wearable technologies and video recording/broadcasting. Given the ongoing pandemic, application of technological advances could provide, with some global coordination, the medical education community with numerous proactive solutions rather than just educational luxuries or novelties.

scholarly journals Reliability of the Barlow and Ortolani Tests for Neonatal Hip Instability

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
M El-Shazly ◽  
B Trainor ◽  
W G Kernohan ◽  
I Turner ◽  
P E Haugh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Test Procedure ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Staff Nurses ◽  
Stress Tests ◽  
Hip Instability ◽  
Independent Expert ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Neonatal Hip ◽  
Community Staff

To investigate if those responsible for screening for neonatal hip instability are using acceptable manual hip stress tests as described by Ortolani and Barlow. A video camera was used to record the technique of 35 personnel who were responsible for screening. They examined both a baby and a simulator. The study comprised five groups, classified by experience and practice: senior orthopaedic surgeons, senior paediatric staff, junior paediatric staff, nurses, community staff. The seven authors together with six independent expert observers viewed the video and marked the performance with the aid of a specially designed proforma. Although there was some variation between these expert observers, the results showed differences in the scores obtained by the different groups of examiners over all aspects of the test procedure. Video recording for criticalanalysis and feedback is a useful technique in this situation. Overall, the results suggest that testing for neonatal hip instability was inadequate. A variety of hip stress manoeuvres were being performed. The ability of each subject to perform satisfactory tests seemed to depend on their experience and education. More “hands on” training and experience of testing might provide the necessary competency for screening.

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