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Studying gesture has always implied the application of different methods concerning the selection of suitable parameters for gesture. Several solutions to this problem have been proposed by scholars over the years. These contributions will be briefly reviewed and discussed with the aim of retrieving a common method for the analysis and definition of gesture.
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Rossini, N. (2004). The Analysis of Gesture: Establishing a Set of Parameters. In: Camurri, A., Volpe, G. (eds) Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction. GW 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2915. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24598-8_12
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