The Gesture Focus Group is an interdisciplinary forum for addressing current directions in gesture research.  Our weekly meetings draw a consistent and lively set of participants from the Departments of Psychology, Linguistics, and Computer Science, Philosophy, Theater Arts, and Biology.

The purpose of the Gesture Focus Group is threefold:  (a) to discuss recently published articles pertaining to the role of non-verbal modalities in interaction; (b) to acquaint participants with new methodologies from various disciplines for studying gesture production and comprehension (e.g. eye-tracking, automated motion capture, and microanalysis of hand movements and speech); and (c) to generate ideas and the means to develop projects that participants would like to pursue, whether collaboratively or on their own.