The Priority Program supports several short-term collaborations organized by ViCom projects each year.
This program will support …
- research activities between ViCom projects, and
- activities between ViCom members and external partners.
These collaborations are primarily intended to provide additional experience and training for early career researchers, complement ongoing work, establish new internal and external collaborations, and foster interactions with researchers not directly affiliated with ViCom as well as facilitate the development of research networks and the establishment of new research activities.
A list of past and current ViCom short-term collaborations:
- A crossmodal investigation of negation and rejection
Researchers involved: Sebastian Walter (Visual and Non-visual Means of Perspective Taking in Language, Goethe University Frankfurt) and Lennart Fritzsche (Goethe University Frankfurt) - A crossmodal investigation of negation and rejection II
Researchers involved: Sebastian Walter (Visual and Non-visual Means of Perspective Taking in Language, Goethe University Frankfurt) and Lennart Fritzsche (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Applying computer vision tools to video recordings of chimpanzees to detect, characterise, and potentially classify their behaviour
Researchers involved: Chiara Zulberti (Compositional structures in chimpanzee gestural communication, University of Leipzig), Šárka Kadavá (FLESH, ZAS Berlin) - Bottom-up formal-based approaches for the identification of gesture types in chimpanzees
Researchers involved: Chiara Zulberti, Katja Liebal and Federica Amici (Compositional structures in chimpanzee gestural communication, University of Leipzig), Jana Bressem (external partner, TU Chemnitz), and Silva Ladewig (StabiGest, University of Göttingen) - Comparing a recurrent non-manual movement in spoken and signed languages
Researchers involved: Anastasia Bauer (GeSi, University of Cologne) and Silva Ladewig (StabiGest, University of Göttingen) - Co-speech gestures and prosody as multimodal markers of information structure in disjunctive questions
Researchers involved: Paula Sánchez-Ramón, Alina Gregori, Pilar Prieto, Frank Kügler (MultIS), Marion Bonnet (extern), Kurt Fassl Erbach (extern) - Creating a script for iconicity rating
Researchers involved: Sarah Schwarzenberg (IMaGeS, University of Hamburg) and Pia Gehlbach (external partner, University of Göttingen) - Discourse-pragmatic and self-oriented cognitive functions of non-referential gestures in the Gesture for Conceptualization Hypothesis
Researchers involved: Pilar Prieto, Frank Kügler (MultIS), Ingrid Vilà-Giménez (University of Girona), Sandra Geladó (University of Pompeu), Sotaro Kita (Mercator Fellow) - Disentangling the integration of speech and gesture in Portuguese at different pragmatic interfaces
Researchers involved: Vinicius Macuch-Silva (ViCom Post-Doc-Fellow), Camila Antônio Barros (Freie Universität Berlin) - Examining mouthings with Virtual Reality (VR) glasses (Meta Quest Pro)
Researchers involved: Anastasia Bauer (GeSi, University of Cologne), Alexander Mehler, Alexander Henlein and Andy Lücking (GeMDiS, Goethe University Frankfurt) - Exploration and comparison of mobile high-density electroencephalographic recordings during interactive communication in virtual reality and real-world settings
Researchers involved: Alexander Mehler, Alexander Henlein and Andy Lücking (GeMDiS, Goethe University Frankfurt), Petra Schumacher (The Gesture-to-Sign Trajectory: Phonological Parameters in Production and Real-Time Comprehension, University of Cologne), and Ingmar Brilmayer and (external partner, University of Cologne) - Exploring Iconic Modification and its Neural Basis in German Sign Language (DGS)
Researchers involved: Casey Ferrara (University of Chicago), Susan Goldin-Meadow (Mercator Fellow), Thomas A. Finkbeiner, Nina-Kristin Meister, Markus Steinbach, Patrick C. Trettenbrein (Parts of Speech and Iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS)), Vanessa W. Y. Tsang (University of Göttingen) - Exploring multimodal prominence in Slicing gesture sequences
Researchers involved: Silva Ladewig (StabiGest, University of Göttingen), Frank Kügler and Alina Gregori (MultIS, Goethe University Frankfurt), Pilar Prieto and Paula Ginesa Sánchez Ramón (MultIS, UPF Barcelona) - Exploring the temporal alignment in chimpanzees’ vocalizations and gestures
Researchers involved: Chiara Zulberti, Katja Liebal, Federica Amici (Compositional Structures in Chimpanzee Gestural Communication), Paula Sánchez-Ramón, Alina Gregori, Pilar Prieto, Frank Kügler (MultIS) - Interactions of at-issueness and commitment in lying: Can iconic gestures be used to lie?
Researchers involved: Jonas Hartke (Lying, deceiving, misleading: are we committed to our gestures?, University of Göttingen) and Sebastian Walter (Visual and Non-visual Means of Perspective Taking in Language, University of Wuppertal) - Lying with ambiguity? Under-informativity using pointing gestures versus speech
Researchers involved: Mailin Antomo and Yuqiu Chen (Lying, Deceiving, Misleading, University of Göttingen), Oliver Herbort and Lisa-Marie Krause (Representation of Pointing Uncertainty for the Integration of Pointing Gestures and Speech, University of Würzburg) - Marking commitment via recurrent gestures – An experimental investigation of the ring precision grip in German
Researchers involved: Mailin Antomo, Yuqiu Chen (Lying, Deceiving, Misleading), Vinicius Macuch-Silva (ViCom Post-Doc-Fellow) - Meaning of Face Emoji Features
Researchers involved: Tatjana Scheffler and Lea Fricke (EmDiCom, University of Bochum), Patrick Georg Grosz (EmDiCom, University of Oslo), Thomas Finkbeiner and Nina-Kristin Meister (Parts of Speech and Iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS), University of Göttingen) and Constant Bonard (external partner, University of Bern) - Moving Meetings by Moving Prosody and Gesture
Researchers involved: Susanne Fuchs (FLESH, ZAS Berlin) and Alina Gregori (MultIS, Goethe University Frankfurt) - Multimodal communication in primates: A comparative study
Researchers involved: Chiara Zulberti, Katja Liebal (Compositional Structures in Chimpanzee Gestural Communication), Lise Habib-Dassetto (extern), Shreejata Gupta (extern), Juliette Aychet (extern) - Multimodal influences on the development of narrative abilities
Researchers involved: Simone Schäffner, Carina Lüke, Vera Wolfrum (ModaKis), Pilar Prieto, Frank Kügler (MultIS), Ingrid Vilà-Giménez (extern), Júlia Florit-Pons (extern) - Multimodal markers of pragmatic contrast: investigating the co-occurrence of recurrent gestures and the German particle eigentlich
Researchers involved: Silva Ladewig (StabiGest), Vinicius Macuch-Silva (ViCom Post-Doc-Fellow) - Studying head nods with Computer Vision tool OpenPose
Researchers involved: Anastasia Bauer (GeSi, University of Cologne), Anna Kuder (GeSi, University of Cologne), and Marc Schulder (external partner, University of Hamburg) - Testing the correlation between top-down prosodic annotation systems and bottom-up automatic annotation
Researchers involved: Aleksandra Ćwiek (FLESH, ZAS Berlin), Pilar Prieto (MultIS, UPF Barcelona), Frank Kügler (MultIS, Goethe University Frankfurt) and Patrick Rohrer (external collaborator of MultIS) - Testing the correlation between top-down prosodic annotation systems and bottom-up automatic annotation – Follow up
Researchers involved: Aleksandra Ćwiek (FLESH, ZAS Berlin), Pilar Prieto (MultIS, UPF Barcelona), Frank Kügler (MultIS, Goethe University Frankfurt) and Patrick Rohrer (external collaborator of MultIS) - The Analysis of Mouthings in the Online DGS corpus
Researchers involved: Anastasia Bauer (GeSi, University of Cologne), Nina-Kristin Meister (Parts of Speech and Iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS), University of Göttingen) Patrick C. Trettenbrein (Parts of Speech and Iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS), MPI for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences Leipzig) and Liona Paulus (external partner, University of Hamburg) - The effect of reported and direct speech on perspective taking when interpreting concurrent pointing gestures
Researchers involved: Oliver Herbort, Lisa-Marie Krause (Representation of Pointing Uncertainty for the Integration of Pointing Gestures and Speech), Cornelia Ebert, Stefan Hinterwimmer, Sebastian Walter (Visual and Non-visual Means of Perspective Taking in Language) - The Gesture-to-Sign Trajectory
Researchers involved: Šárka Kadavá (FLESH, ZAS Berlin) and Door Spruijt (The Gesture-to-Sign Trajectory: Phonological Parameters in Production and Real-Time Comprehension, University of Cologne)