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Cravotta, A. (2020), Restraining and Encouraging the Use of Gesture: Exploring the Effects on Speech, PhD Thesis, University of Padova, Italy [pdf] or [pdf]
Peer-reviewed journals
Peer-reviewed journals
Ienaga, N., Cravotta, A., Terayama, K., Scotney, B. W., Saito, H. & Busà M.G. (2022) Semi-automation of Gesture Annotation by Machine Learning and Human Collaboration. Language Resources & Evaluation, 1-28. [pdf]
Cravotta, A., Prieto, P., & M.G., Busà, (2021). Exploring the Effects of Restraining the Use of Gestures on Narrative Speech. Speech Communication, 135, 25-36. [pdf]
Cravotta, A., Busà, M. G., & Prieto, P. (2019). Effects of Encouraging the Use of Gestures on Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(9), 3204 -3219 [pdf]
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
Cravotta A., Prieto, P., Busà, M.G. (2019), Encouraging Gesture Use in a Narration Task Increases Speakers' Gesture Rate, Gesture Salience and the Production of Representational Gestures. In Proceedings of the 6th GESPIN conference (pp. 21-26) [pdf]
Cravotta, A., Busà, M. G., & Prieto, P. (2018). Restraining and encouraging the use of hand gestures: Effects on speech. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018 (pp. 206-210). [pdf]
Ienaga, N., Scotney, B., Saito, H., Cravotta, A., Busà M. G., (2018). Natural Gesture Extraction Based on Hand Trajectory. In Proceedings of the 20th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing conference (IMVIP) (pp. 81-88). [pdf]
Prieto, P., Cravotta, A., Kushch, O., Rohrer, P., & Vilà-Giménez I. (2018). Deconstructing beat gestures: a labelling proposal. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018 (pp. 201-205). [pdf]
Published abstracts and conference presentations
Published abstracts and conference presentations
Cravotta, A., (July, 2018). How does restraining and encouraging the use of gestures affect speech? A prosodic analysis. Talk presented at ISGS8th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (Cape Town, South Africa)
Busà, M. G., Cravotta, A. (July, 2016). Can reporters' involvement in the news be detected by looking at their gestures and listening to their pitch? Poster presented at ISGS7 7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (Paris, France)
Busà, M. G., & Cravotta, A. (May, 2016). Detecting Emotional Involvement in Professional News Reporters: An Analysis of Speech and Gestures. Talk presented at the LREC 2016 EMOT Workshop: Emotions, Metaphors, Ontology and Terminology during Disasters (Portorož, Slovenia).
Invited talks
Invited talks
'Restraining and encouraging the use of gestures: Exploring the effects on speech' (14 January 2020), Nijmegen Gesture Centre colloquium series, Donders Centre for Cognition, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
'How does encouraging and restraining gestures affect speech during a narration task?' (27 November 2017), GReP seminars, Dept. of Translation and Language Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Department talks
Department talks
Cravotta, A., (2019). Do gestures change the way we speak? Data from a storytelling task. Language and Communication Lab (LCL) seminars, (Padova, 5 March 2019)
Cravotta, A., (2019). Do gesture change the way we speak and think? Preselection for the Three Minutes Thesis Competition 2019, Coimbra group [pdf]
Cravotta, A., (2015) Towards an analysis of reporters’ involvement in news communication. Talk at the Language and Communication Lab (LCL)'s workshop: Integrating L2 Prosody and Gestures (Padova, 24 September 2015) [program]
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