WELCOME AND THANKS
Welcome to Gesture Workshop 2003, the 5th International Workshop on Gesture and
Sign Language based Human-Computer Interaction!
The International Gesture Workshop is a forum where researchers working on
gesture-based interfaces and gestural interaction present and exchange ideas and
research currently in progress, with a cross-disciplinary focus. GW2003 is the
5th workshop after the 1996 Gesture Workshop in York (UK) considered as the
starting event. Henceforth, International Gesture Workshops have been held
roughly every second year, with fully reviewed post-proceedings typically
published by Springer-Verlag.
As an indicator of the continuously growing interest of the scientific community
toward gesture-mediated human-computer interaction and human-language
technology, a large number of high quality submissions have been received. The
program includes invited talks, oral presentations of long and short papers,
presentations of posters, and demonstrations: around 90 contributes from 20
different countries will offer a broad overview of the state-of-the-art in many
research fields related to gesture-based communication.
In conclusion, we wish to thank Gennaro Di Benedetto, Sovrintendente of the
Teatro dell'Opera Carlo Felice and the Staff of the Theatre, APT Genova and
Agenzia Regionale per la Promozione Turistica della Liguria, the invited
speakers Frank Pollick (Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK) and
Shuji Hashimoto (Department of Applied Physics Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan),
the Scientific Committee, the session chairs, Barbara Mazzarino and the other
members of the Local Organizing Committee (Roberto Chiarvetto, Roberto Dillon,
and Paolo Coletta), the staff and the students of the DIST - InfoMus Lab who
helped in the organization, and all the presenters and attendants. We thank also
Martino Musso (Lever) for the support to the organization of the event,
Eidomedia and NumenSoft.
This event has been partially supported by the EU-IST Project MEGA (Multisensory
Expressive Gesture Applications, www.megaproject.org)
We look forward to working at the preparation of a high quality post-proceedings
Springer book aiming at providing a valuable and interesting contribution to
this community.
Antonio Camurri and Gualtiero Volpe
Gesture Workshop 2003 co-chairs
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