Gesture Workshop 1999: Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Annelies Braffort, Rachid Gherbi, Sylvie Gibet, James Richardson, Daniel Teil (Eds.): Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction, International Gesture Workshop, GW'99, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, March 17-19, 1999, Proceedings. Springer 1999 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-66935-3
Section 1: Human Perception and Production of Gesture
Invited Paper
Winand H. Dittrich: Seeing Biological Motion - Is There a Role for Cognitive Strategies? 3-22
Long Papers
Caroline Hummels, Kees Overbeeke: The Expressive Power of Gestures: Capturing Scent in a Spatial Shape. 23-36
Marcelo M. Wanderley: Non-obvious Performer Gestures in Instrumental Music. 37-48
Short Papers
Antonella De Angeli, Frederic Wolff, Laurent Romary, Walter Gerbino: The Ecological Approach to Multimodal System Design. 49-52
Agnès Roby-Brami, Mounir Mokhtari, Isabelle Laffont, Nezha Bennis, Elena Biryukova: Analysis of Trunk and Upper Limb Articular Synergies. 53-57
Section 2: Localisation and Segmentation
Long Papers

Jochen Triesch, Jan Wieghardt, Eric Maël, Christoph von der Malsburg: Towards Imitation Learning of Grasping Movements by an Autonomous Robot. 73-84
Damian M. Lyons, Daniel L. Pelletier: A Line-Scan Computer Vision Algorithm for Identifying Human Body Features. 85-96
Short Paper
Section 3: Recognition
Invited Paper
Long Papers
Hans-Joachim Böhme, Ulf-Dietrich Braumann, Andrea Corradini, Horst-Michael Gross: Person Localization and Posture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction. 117-128
Jérôme Martin, Daniela Hall, James L. Crowley: Statistical Gesture Recognition Through Modelling of Parameter Trajectories. 129-140
Short Papers

Jean-François Kamp, Franck Poirier, Philippe Doignon: Control of In-vehicle Systems by Gestures. 159-162
Section 4: Sign Language
Invited Paper
Christian Cuxac: French Sign Language: Proposition of a Structural Explanation by Iconicity. 165-184
Long Papers
Hermann Hienz, Britta Bauer, Karl-Friedrich Kraiss: HMM-Based Continuous Sign Language Recognition Using Stochastic Grammars. 185-196
Hirohiko Sagawa, Masaru Takeuchi: A Method for Analyzing Spatial Relationships Between Words in Sign Language Recognition. 197-209
Christian Vogler, Dimitris N. Metaxas: Toward Scalability in ASL Recognition: Breaking Down Signs into Phonemes. 211-224
Section 5: Gesture Synthesis and Animation
Long Papers
Thierry Lebourque, Sylvie Gibet: A Complete System for the Specification and the Generation of Sign Language Gestures. 227-238

Short Papers
Frédéric Julliard, Sylvie Gibet: Reactiva'Motion Project: Motion Synthesis Based on a Reactive Representation. 265-268
Marc Fabri, David J. Moore, Dave J. Hobbs: The Emotional Avatar: Non-verbal Communication Between Inhabitants of Collaborative Virtual Environments. 269-273
Section 6: Multimodality
Invited Paper
Ipke Wachsmuth: Communicative Rhythm in Gesture and Speech. 277-289
Long Papers
Timo Sowa, Martin Fröhlich, Marc Erich Latoschik: Temporal Symbolic Integration Applied to a Multimodal System Using Gestures and Speech. 291-302
Joseph J. LaViola Jr.: A Multimodal Interface Framework for Using Hand Gestures and Speech in Virtual Environment Applications. 303-314
Round Table
Marilyn Panayi, David M. Roy, James Richardson: Stimulating Research into Gestural Human Machine Interaction. 317-331



