36.2889, FYI: Beatology: Identifying Beat Components in Co-Speech Gestures [International Workshop]

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Subject: 36.2889, FYI: Beatology: Identifying Beat Components in Co-Speech Gestures [International Workshop]

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Date: 26-Sep-2025
From: Aviad Albert [a.albert at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Beatology: Identifying Beat Components in Co-Speech Gestures [International Workshop]


The Collaborative Research Center "Prominence in Language" (CRC 1252),
at the University of Cologne, will be holding a 2-day international
workshop on multimodal analysis of co-speech gestures:
"Beatology: Identifying beat components in co-speech gestures"
October 7-8, 2025, The University of Cologne, Germany
Webpage:
https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/internationale-tagungen-workshops/beatology
Registration is now open (no registration fee):
https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/internationale-tagungen-workshops/beatology/beatology-registration
Invited speakers (also online):
- Khalil Iskarous (University of Southern California)
- Silva Ladewig (University of Göttingen)
- Wim Pouw (Tilburg University)
- Simon Roessig (University of Cologne)
- Patrick Rohrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
- Shuguang Sheng (Tilburg University)
Agenda:
As research into multimodal aspects of communication advances, greater
attention is being directed toward the beat-like nature of many
co-speech gestures, and to the characterization of the temporal links
between such gestures and the speech signal. Identifying beats in
multimodal data analysis often relies on impressionistic inferences
made by human annotators and on study-specific criteria for machine
annotation of visible body gestures. More robust objective principles
for this identification task are so far overlooked or not widely
shared. This situation also makes it hard to compare and accumulate
findings from different studies effectively.
In this workshop, we will endeavor to address this challenge and
establish a comprehensive set of principles and criteria for reliable
beat identification, both from a qualitative and a quantitative
perspective, that could be adopted by diverse research groups. The
workshop is spread over two days — one day for talks and another day
for discussions.
Topics:
- The biomechanics of speech and co-speech gestures
- Speech and gesture timing models
- Characteristics of single beats (abrupt vs. smooth transitions)
- Characteristics of repetitive beats (coupled vs. self-oscillatory)
See webpage (above) for further information.
Organizers:
Aviad Albert, Stefan Baumann & Doris Mücke
SFB 1252 Prominence in Language
https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/

Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable




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