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☀️Announcement ☀️

The #DGfS Summer School 2024 will take place from 12 to 23 August @unigoettingen and will be centred around "Form Meaning Mismatches in Spoken and Visual Communication". 🧐Registration is open until May 10! 😇

https://dgfssummer2024.blog/

#ViCom #VisualCommunication

📚🤟🏼 Exciting News Alert! 🤟🏼📚
Thrilled to announce the launch of the FIRST bimodal-bilingual book series! 🎉
Introducing "Deutsche Gebärdensprache und Deaf Communities" - delving into #DGS and #deaf culture with fresh research insights! Get your copy now
https://buske.de/fremde-sprachen/d/deutsche-gebaerdensprache/100-fragen-und-antworten-rund-um-die-deutsche-gebardensprache.html

🔍🧐Participants for perception study wanted!🧐🔎
If you are a German native speaker and can spare 15 min of your time, click the link below to contribute to insights on prosody and speech-accompanying gestures:

https://www.soscisurvey.de/BAGesPros/

Thanks for your support! 😊

#ViCom wishes a happy new year #2024! 🥳May the upcoming year be filled with endless possibilities and academic achievements!🎆#HappyNewYear #CheersTo2024

Check out our latest #Instagram post to get an idea of the process of recording for one of our studies! #ViCom 🤗
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0KBEcNMKPz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Throwback to our first #ViCom Project Workshop! 🤩
The goal was to unite researchers within and beyond #ViCom to lay the foundations for the collaborative creation of a psycholinguistic database for German Sign Language #DGS.
Check out the links for more info!

https://vicom.info/report-on-first-vicom-project-workshop-establishing-a-lexical-database-for-psycholinguistic-research-on-german-sign-language-dgs/

https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/679347.html

Check out our latest #Instagram post and make sure to hit the follow button to see what's happening at the #vicom annual meeting ! 😊
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzVzeypMihW/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

TOMORROW the #ViCom annual meeting 2023 kicks off with Liona Paulus' #DGS and #Deaf Awareness workshop! 🤩
Basics of visual-manual communication, first DGS signs and important manners of interacting with a (deaf) minority are on the agenda.

Only a few days left until #vicom's annual meeting! We can't wait to hear about the progress the projects have made this past year. We are EXCITED! 🥳

MMSYM 2024 - Call for papers
In collaboration with #ViCom, the 2nd International Multimodal Communication Symposium will take place September 25-27, 2024 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.
Abstracts can now be submitted - for more information see http://mmsym.org/

Last friday, Cornelia Ebert and Markus Steinbach gave a lecture on the topic “The Speaking Hands: Exploring the Difference Between #Words, #Gestures, and #Signs” at the 20th Children’s University Frankfurt (Kinder-Uni Frankfurt). Check this out: https://www.fr.de/frankfurt/kinder-uni-an-der-frankfurter-goethe-uni-gesten-und-gebaerdensprache-92563104.html

Today's the second day of our statistics workshop with Bodo Winter and everybody is hyped to learn about Bayesian statistics. 😎📚

@tschfflr@fediscience.org Will do! Thanks for the advice! 😃

When gestures start flowing, you know the facts are showing!🤪 #ViCom

Our new instagram post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CwCpIc3sXzx/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Our first instagram post is now online! 🥳 #ViCom https://www.instagram.com/p/CvEwYhfs-si/?igshid=YzcxN2Q2NzY0OA==

The song by HK et les Saltimbanks, "Ce soir, nous irons au bal," is a tribute to the victims of November 13, 2015 in Paris. The music video (directed by Sandrine Herman) is performed in LSF (french sign language) and a joy to watch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oTh-WTVgCU

#Spotlight In their #ViCom - project, Oliver Herbort and Lisa-Marie Krause investigate, among other things, how we effectively combine pointing gestures and speech. ☝💬

Watch their project introduction:
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/BY4r7i5F/herbolt_ut.mp4

More info on their project:
https://vicom.info/projects/representation-of-pointing-uncertainty-for-the-integration-of-pointing-gestures-and-speech/

Students and PhD candidates of the Master's seminar #VisualCommunication presented their own work & ideas in the seminar's closing workshop. We look back on a great workshop with exciting discussions. Thank you! 😊 #ViCom