Gestural channel

Annie Luciani (1)

1 ACROE - ACROE

While gestures and actions are getting more and more important in theories - such as the theory of enaction - and in technology - such as the technologies of multimodal interfaces, or the technologies of gesture devices - the definition of a terminology adapted to the different functions involved in the relation between the actuations and the perceptual modalities is of a critical importance. One is forced to observe that the today's term of haptic is unable neither to cover the needs, nor to sufficiently simply and clearly support detailed discussions and developments. Facing this problem, Claude Cadoz has introduced the expression "gestural channel", as a compact mean to name elegantly all the human biomechanical sensors-actuators involved in physical motor performance, and its declinations in "gestural action" and "gestural perception".

Domaines: Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]; Son [cs.SD]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Annie Luciani. Gestural channel. Enaction and enactive interfaces : a handbook of terms, Enactive Systems Books, pp.111-113, 2007. ⟨hal-00979990⟩