E. Efthimiou and G. Kouroupetroglou (Eds): "Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction", Athens, 2011, ISBN 978-960-466-075-9

Keynote Speech 1

• "Embodied communication at hand - gestures in real and simulated dialogue" Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Session 1: Human Computer Interaction 1

• "Identifying, Applying and Evaluating Gestural Interaction in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing" Michael Wright, Chun-Jung Lin, Eamonn O'Neill, Darren Cosker, Peter Johnson (University of Bath, Bath, UK)
• "Gestures in assisted living environments" Dimitra Anastasiou (University of Bremen, Gernany)
• "Performance Evaluation of Gesture-based 2D and 3D Pointing Tasks" Georgios Kouroupetroglou, Alexandros Pino, Athanasios Balmpakakis, Vasileios Golematis, Dimitrios Chalastanis, Nikolaos Ioannou, Ioannis Koutsoumpas (University of Athens, Greece)

Session 2: Cognitive Processes

• "The Role of Spontaneous Gesture in Spatial Problem Solving" Mingyuan Chu (University of Birmingham, UK), Sotaro Kita (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)
• "The Effects of Spectral Features of Sound on Gesture Type and Timing" Mariusz Kozak (University of Chicago, USA), Kristian Nymoen, Rolf Inge Godøy ( University of Oslo, Norway)
• "Human-motion Saliency in Multi-motion Scenes and in Close Interaction" Matei Mancas, Fiora Pirri, Matia Pizzoli (University of Mons, Belgium; University of Rome, Italy)

Session 3: Animation and Virtual Environments

• "Virtual signer coarticulation in Octopus, a Sign Language generation platform" Annelies Braffort, Laurence Bolot, Jérémie Segouat (LIMSI/CNRS, France)
• "Grounding the Simulation of Iconic Gestures in Gesture Typology" Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp, Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld University, UK)
• "Thumb modeling for the generation of Sign Language" Maxime Delorme, Michael Filhol, Annelies Braffort (LIMSI/CNRS, France)

Session 4: Notation systems

• "A Labanotation Based Ontology for Representing Dance Movement" Katerina El Raheb, Yannis Ioannidis (University of Athens, Greece)
• "ISOcat data categories for signed language resources" Onno Crasborn, Menzo Windhouwer (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)
• "Staccato: Segmentation Agreement Calculator" Andy Lücking (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Sebastian Ptock, Kirsten Bergmann (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Keynote Speech 2

• "Analysis and Synthesis of Sign Language Gestures: from Meaning to Movement Production" Sylvie Gibet (University of Bretagne Sud, Vannes, France)

Session 5: Generation via Language Models

• "A formal framework for the integration of gesture and verbal language" Gianluca Giorgolo (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
• "Generating co-speech gestures for the humanoid robot NAO through BML" Quoc Anh Le, Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS, France)

Session 6: Human Computer Interaction 2

• "A Multimodal Scheduler for Synchronized Humanoid Robot Gesture and Speech" Maha Salem, Stefan Kopp, Ipke Wachsmuth (Bielefeld University, Germany), Frank Joublin (Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany)
• "Bringing intuitions of natural and virtual interactions into conflict: the POLYMECHANON experience" Stamatina Anastopoulou, Zacharoula Smyrnaiou, Chronis Kynigos (University of Athens, Greece)
• "Choosing and modeling hand gesture database for natural user interface" Przemyslaw Glomb, Michal Romaszewski, Sebastian Opozda, Arkadiusz Sochan (Institute for Theoretical and Applied Informatics of PAS, Gliwice, Poland)

Session 7: Linguistic analysis

• "Investigation and analysis of non manual gestures involved in LSF: blinking" Emilie Chételat-Pelé, Annelies Braffort (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
• "Kinematic Properties of Lexical and Transitional Movements in Sign Language of the Netherlands: A Cyberglove Study" Ellen Ormel, Onno Crasborn (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• "Reduction in Repeated References in Gesture and Sign Language" Marieke Hoetjes, Axelle Schmit, Ruud Koolen, Martijn Goudbeek, Emiel Krahmer, Marc Swerts (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
• "Grammar/Prosodic Modeling in Greek Sing Language: Towards Built-in grammatical Rules for Sign Synthesis" Athanasia-Lida Dimou, Theodore Goulas, Eleni Efthimiou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing/Athena RC, Greece)

Session 8: Gesture and Sign Language Recognition

• "Advances in Dynamic-Static Integration of Movement and Handshape Cues for Sign Language Recognition" Stavros Theodorakis, Vassilis Pitsikalis, Petros Maragos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
• "Experiments on Global and Local Active Appearance Models for Analysis of Sign Language Facial Expressions" Isidoros Rodomagoulakis, Stavros Theodorakis, Vassilis Pitsikalis, Petros Maragos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
• "Signs Segmentation using Dynamics and Hand Configuration for Semi-Automatic Annotation of Sign Language Corpora" Matilde Gonzalez, Christophe Collet (Universite Paul Sabatier, France)

Keynote Speech 3

• "Multimodal Information Processing and Fusion" Petros Maragos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Session 9: Gesture in Communication

• "On the importance of gaze and speech alignment for efficient communication" Maria Staudte, Alexis Heloir, Matthew Crocker, Michael Kipp (Saarland University, Germany DFKI, Germany)
• "Interaction between Speech and Gesture: Strategies for Pointing to Distant Objects" Thies Pfeiffer (Bielefeld University, UK)
• "Making Space for Interaction: Architects Design Dialogues" Claude Heath, Pat Healey (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

Poster Session

• "The Emergence of Pronominal Pointing in Greek Sign Language" Marianna Hatzopoulou (Hellenic Pedagogical Institute, Greece)
• "User experience of gesture-based interfaces: A comparison with traditional interaction methods on pragmatic and hedonic qualities" Maurice van Beurden, Wijnand Ijsselsteijn, Yvonne de Kort (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
• "Improved Gesture Trajectory Reconstruction from Acceleration Values for a Device Independent Gesture Recognition Approach" Mathias Wilhelm, Dirk Roscher, Sahin Albayrak (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
• "A combination of two synchronisation methods to formalise Sign Language animation" Michael Filhol (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
• "What, Why, Where & How do children think? SCA: Towards a dynamic model of Spatial Cognition as Action in children" Marilyn Panayi, David Roy (Ensomatica, London UK, City University, London, UK)
• "Mirror illusion using Augmented Reality: Investigating Multimodal Perceptual Distortions" Giselle Christoffersen, Laura Petrini, Michael Nielsen, Thomas Mygind, Thomas Moeslund, Lars Arendt-Nielsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
• "Simple Cases of Low Cost Force-Feedback Haptic Interaction with Haptic Digital Audio Effects" Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos (University of Wales Institut Cardiff, UK), Georgios Kouroupetroglou (University of Athens, Greece)
• "Iconic Gestures in Face-to-face TV Interviews" Maria Koutsombogera, Harris Papageorgiou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing/Athena RC, Greece)