Gestures in communication through line graphs

2012-08-31
Özge, Alaçam
Christopher, Habel
Acartürk, Cengiz
Line graphs are widely used in communication settings, for conveying information about states and processes that unfold in time. The communication is achieved by the contribution of other modalities than graphs, such as language and gestures. In a set of experimental investigations, we analyzed the production and comprehension of gestures during communication through line graphs. The findings reveal a systematic use of gestures as well as the limitations of cognitive resources due to the split of attention between the modalities.
34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2012 (CogSci 2012) ,1-4 August 2012

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Citation Formats
A. Özge, H. Christopher, and C. Acartürk, “Gestures in communication through line graphs,” Sapporo, Japan, 2012, vol. 1-3, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/86905.