Human multimodal communicative behaviors form a tightly integrated whole. We have present a paradigm multimodal analysis in natural discourse based on a feature decompositive psycholinguistically derived model that permits us to accessthe underlying structure and intent of multimodal communicative discourse. We outline the psycholinguistics that drive our paradigm, the Catchment concept that facilitates our getting a computational handle on discourse entities, and summarize some approaches and results that realize the vision. We show examples of such discoursestructuring features as handedness, types of symmetry, gaze-atinterlocutor, and hand ‘origos’. Such analysis is an alternative to the ‘recognition of one discrete gesture out of stylized whole gesturemodels’ paradigm.
['Francis K. H. Quek']
Instrumental access to natural multimodal discourse