Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction [electronic resource] : International GestureWorkshop, GW’99 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, March 17-19, 1999 Proceedings / edited by Annelies Braffort, Rachid Gherbi, Sylvie Gibet, Daniel Teil, James Richardson.

Human Perception and Production of Gesture -- Seeing Biological Motion - Is There a Role for Cognitive Strategies? -- The Expressive Power of Gestures: Capturing Scent in a Spatial Shape -- Non-obvious Performer Gestures in Instrumental Music -- The Ecological Approach to Multimodal System Design -- Analysis of Trunk and Upper Limb Articular Synergies -- Localisation and Segmentation -- GREFIT: Visual Recognition of Hand Postures -- Towards Imitation Learning of Grasping Movements by an Autonomous Robot -- A Line-Scan Computer Vision Algorithm for Identifying Human Body Features -- Hand Posture Recognition in a Body-Face Centered Space -- Recognition -- Vision-Based Gesture Recognition: A Review -- Person Localization and Posture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction -- Statistical Gesture Recognition Through Modelling of Parameter Trajectories -- Gesture Recognition for Visually Mediated Interaction -- Interpretation of Pointing Gestures: The PoG System -- Control of In-vehicle Systems by Gestures -- Sign Language -- French Sign Language: Proposition of a Structural Explanation by Iconicity -- HMM-Based Continuous Sign Language Recognition Using Stochastic Grammars -- A Method for Analyzing Spatial Relationships Between Words in Sign Language Recognition -- Toward Scalability in ASL Recognition: Breaking Down Signs into Phonemes -- Gesture Synthesis and Animation -- A Complete System for the Specification and the Generation of Sign Language Gestures -- Sign Specification and Synthesis -- Active Character: Dynamic Reaction to the User -- Reactiva’Motion Project: Motion Synthesis Based on a Reactive Representation -- The Emotional Avatar: Non-verbal Communication Between Inhabitants of Collaborative Virtual Environments -- Multimodality -- Communicative Rhythm in Gesture and Speech -- Temporal Symbolic Integration Applied to a Multimodal System Using Gestures and Speech -- A Multimodal Interface Framework for Using Hand Gestures and Speech in Virtual Environment Applications -- Round Table -- Stimulating Research into Gestural Human Machine Interaction.