Welcome to the M3D Training Program!
An interactive training tool for gesture annotation
The M3D Training Program will guide you through each step of the gesture annotation process via a number of challenges. These challenges address different aspects of gesture within the dimensions of M3D and contain:
explanatory videos
interactive gesture recognition and annotation tasks
annotation demonstrations
and downloadable, self-paced annotation tasks
Prepare yourself for the challenges
Learning about M3D
Discover what gestures are
Find out about the core properties of M3D and its contribution to gesture studies
Get familiar with the M3D gesture dimensions and its approach to gesture classification
Getting started with ELAN
Organize your ELAN workstation
Take advantage of keyboard shortcuts
Get used to working with media files
Get used to using the M3D template
Challenges
The following challenges will guide you through the steps of annotating with M3D. They will help you to learn how to annotate gestures and how to deal with various types of cases.
Identifying Gesture Units: How are gestures grouped into larger Gesture Units?
Find out more about the first aspect of the prosodic dimension of gesture
Explore how gestures are grouped to Gesture Units and how to identify these units
Realize how to decide where a Gesture Unit starts and ends
Learn how to annotate Gesture Units in ELAN
Identifying Gesture Phases : What are the phases the gesture consists of?
Find out more about the second aspect of the prosodic dimension of gesture
Learn how to identify Gesture Phases
Explore the different movement phases of a gesture
Realize that one particular phase is carrying the overall gestural meaning
Discover the variety of phasal structures that may exist
Learn how annotate gesture phases in ELAN
Identifying Gesture Referentiality: What semantic meaning does the gesture convey?
Find out more about the first aspect within the meaning dimension of gesture
Discover the different referential meanings a gesture may convey
Realize that multiple referential meanings may be present simultaneously
Learn how to annotate gesture referentiality in ELAN
Identifying Gesture Form: What are the kinematics of the gesture?
Find out more about the form dimension of gesture
Discover four different aspects of form: Handshape, palm orientation, trajectory shape, and trajectory direction
Get familiar with the different labels within each aspect of form
Learn how to annotate form in ELAN
Identifying Rhythmic Properties: How beat-like is the gesture?
Find out more about the third aspect of the prosodic dimension of gesture
Understand what we mean by beat-like-ness
Find out how to evaluate the level of beat-like-ness of a gesture
Learn how to annotate beat-like-ness in ELAN
Identifying the Pragmatic Domain of gestures: What discourse-pragmatic meaning does the gesture convey?
Find out more about the second aspect within the meaning dimension of gesture
Discover the five pragmatic domains within which a gesture may function
Get familiar with some different types of specific pragmatic functions a gesture may have within each domain
Realize that a single gesture may convey multiple pragmatic meanings simultaneously
Learn how to annotate the pragmatic domain in ELAN
