TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mehler, Alexander
A1  - Lücking, Andy
A1  - Abrami, Giuseppe
T1  - WikiNect: image schemata as a basis of gestural writing for kinetic museum wikis
T2  - Universal Access in the Information Society
N2  - 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.
KW  - Gestural writing
KW  - Museum information system
KW  - Kinetic hypertext authoring
KW  - Kinect
KW  - Image schemata
KW  - Deictic and iconic gestures
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42201
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-422018
SN  - 1615-5297
N1  - 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.
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
SP  - 333
EP  - 349
PB  - Berlin ; Heidelberg
CY  - Springer
ER  -