First Level Gesture Annotation Guide

• 1. Gesture Overview
  • 1.1 What is a gesture?
  • 1.2 Three main categories of gesture
• 2. Gesture Columns on the Transcript
  • 2.1 Form
  • 2.2 Part of Body
  • 2.3 Object
  • 2.4 Gloss
  • 2.5 Orientation
  • 2.6 Motion, Space, Description
• 3. Other Nuts and Bolts
  • 3.1 Multiple Gestures for One Utterance
  • 3.2 Off Camera Speech
  • 3.3 Gestures Spanning Multiple Utterances
  • 3.4 Placing the Timestamp
  • 3.5 Don’t Gloss Intention
  • 3.6 What to Code
  • 3.7 Song and Gameplay
• Gesture Coding Reference Page
  • How to Use this Page
  • Deictics
  • Conventionals
  • Representationals