Workshops are an important part of the cooperation within ViCom. Individual projects within the program often investigate the same phenomenon using different methods or apply the same method to different phenomena. To foster a lively exchange within the program, ViCom includes a workshop program for members and associated projects. Some workshops will be small, focused meetings of only 5 to 10 ViCom researchers. Others will be large workshops attracting many outside researchers. Large workshops should generally be held as part of existing conferences to make attendance easier. In addition, large workshops may be associated with the ViCom annual meeting itself. Workshops should be organized by at least two researchers from different institutions within ViCom. These will include highly interdisciplinary methodological workshops aimed at bringing together researchers from different fields working within the same dimension of ViCom (theoretical, empirical, and applied), as well as cluster workshops aimed at fostering exchange among researchers working within the same cluster.
A list of past and planned ViCom workshops:
- Dimensions of Iconicity in the Visual Modality at University of Goettingen
Researchers involved: Mailin Antomo & Yuqiu Chen (Lying, Deceiving and Misleading: Are we Committed to our Gestures), and Thomas Finkbeiner Nina-Kristin Meister, Markus Steinbach & Patrick Trettenbrein (Parts of speech and iconicity in DGS), and Silva Ladewig (Processes of Stabilization in Gestures) - Establishing a lexical database for psycholinguistic research on German Sign Language (DGS) at University of Göttingen
Researchers involved: Pamela Perniss, Petra Schumacher & Door Spruijt (The Gesture-to-Sign Trajectory), and Thomas Finkbeiner Nina-Kristin Meister, Markus Steinbach & Patrick Trettenbrein (Parts of speech and iconicity in DGS), and Emiliano Zaccarella (University of Göttingen & Max Planck Institute Leipzig) - Expressing Emotions in Sign Languages at University of Hamburg
Researchers involved: Annika Herrmann & Sarah Schwarzenberg
(IMaGeS), and Thomas Finkbeiner, Nina-Kristin Meister & Markus Steinbach (Parts of Speech and Iconicity in DGS) - M3D annotation workshop
Researchers involved: Frank Kügler, Alina Gregori, Pilar Prieto & Paula Ginesa Sánchez Ramón (MultIS), and Patrick Rohrer (Donders Center for Cognition, Nijmegen) - Multimodal Prominence
Researchers involved: Frank Kügler, Alina Gregori, Pilar Prieto & Paula Ginesa Sánchez Ramón (MultIS), and Silva Ladewig (Processes of Stabilization in Gestures), and Federica Amici & Chiara Zulberti (Compositional Structures in Chimpanzee Gestural Communication), and Aleksandra Ćwiek, Susanne Fuchs, Wim Pouw & Šárka Kadavá (FLESH) - Palm-up in Gesture and Sign: Theoretical, Typological and Methodological Perspectives for Future Research
Researchers involved: Anna Kuder & Anastasia Bauer (GeSi), and Pamela Perniss (The Gesture-to-Sign Trajectory: Phonological Parameters in Production and Real-Time Comprehension), and Sandra Debreslioska (extern, Lund university) - Workshop to develop unified annotation standards for non-manual articulators in sign languages and (co-speech) gesture at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Researchers involved: Cornelia Loos (Exploring the Limits of Simultaneity: Encoding Caused Change-of-state Events with Classifier Constructions in German Sign Language (DGS)), and Frank Kügler & Pilar Prieto (MultIS)