Embodied interactions

Patrick Healey (University of London)
Embodied interactions

Human interaction is typically embodied and involves the integrated use of speech and non-speech resources for communication.  How are these combined resources co-ordinated across multiple participants? More than visual contact is involved. Shared physical space also provides an important resource for co-ordinated interaction. For example, we use it to help define who is interacting, the character of our interaction and our respective conversational roles. We also use shared space as a ‘virtual’ resource for managing, editing and amending contributions.  The increasing availability of motion capture technology and immersive three-dimensional displays creates new opportunities to analyse and instrument these aspects of human interaction.