WikiNect: image schemata as a basis of gestural writing for kinetic museum wikis

  • This paper provides a theoretical assessment of gestures in the context of authoring image-related hypertexts by example of the museum information system WikiNect. To this end, a first implementation of gestural writing based on image schemata is provided (Lakoff in Women, fire, and dangerous things: what categories reveal about the mind. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987). Gestural writing is defined as a sort of coding in which propositions are only expressed by means of gestures. In this respect, it is shown that image schemata allow for bridging between natural language predicates and gestural manifestations. Further, it is demonstrated that gestural writing primarily focuses on the perceptual level of image descriptions (Hollink et al. in Int J Hum Comput Stud 61(5):601–626, 2004). By exploring the metaphorical potential of image schemata, it is finally illustrated how to extend the expressiveness of gestural writing in order to reach the conceptual level of image descriptions. In this context, the paper paves the way for implementing museum information systems like WikiNect as systems of kinetic hypertext authoring based on full-fledged gestural writing.

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Author:Alexander MehlerORCiDGND, Andy LückingORCiD, Giuseppe AbramiORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-422018
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-014-0386-8
ISSN:1615-5297
Parent Title (English):Universal Access in the Information Society
Publisher:Berlin ; Heidelberg
Place of publication:Springer
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2016/11/25
Year of first Publication:2015
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2016/11/25
Tag:Deictic and iconic gestures; Gestural writing; Image schemata; Kinect; Kinetic hypertext authoring; Museum information system
Volume:14
Issue:3
Page Number:17
First Page:333
Last Page:349
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This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
HeBIS-PPN:432469656
Institutes:Informatik und Mathematik / Informatik
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0