[ONLINE] Sylvie Gibet: "Gesture: a language to sense, express, control"

About the event

This session will feature the rebroadcast of the lecture presented by Sylvie Gibet on March 15, 2018 followed by a one-hour live discussion with Prof. Gibet herself. The main goal is to revisit the topic, and then, in the discussion that will follow, evaluate what has changed since the research was first presented. Participants are encouraged to submit their questions and comments in the chat of the platform used.

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Abstract

Biography

Sylvie Gibet graduated with a PhD in Computer Science in 1987 from the “Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble” (INPG) in France, where she studied haptic gesture for controlling sound synthesis. She then held a research position at the University of Geneva in 1989 in Cognitive Science, and a postdoctoral position at the University of California, San Diego (Computer Music Experiment lab.) in 1990. She became an assistant professor at the University of Paris Sud in France between 1992 and 2000, before becoming a professor at the University of South Brittany, where she joined the IRISA Laboratory.

Her research focuses on the modeling, analysis and generation of expressive gesture, with a focus on sensorimotor representations and time-shape motion descriptors. She has mainly studied expert gestures with strong semantics such as sign language gestures, but also musical gestures such as percussing or conducting gestures, or emotional theatrical movements. Sylvie has obtained numerous funding (CNRS, ANR, Programme d'Investissement d'Avenir) that have supported her research.

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