GRK 256:  Task-Oriented Communication

• Subject Area: Linguistics
• Term: from 1996 to 2005
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 271325

The research training group focuses on a common domain of research: task-oriented aspects of natural language communication, perception and action carried out by a human or artificial agent (interacting cognitive sensor-actor systems). The common domain of research is subdivided into two research sections: Section one focuses on analyses of task-oriented natural language communication, empirical research, modelling and simulation. Section two ("Multimodal communication") integrates two domains: "coordination and integration of information streams in speech processing" and "communicating agents". It integrates speech processing approaches to spontaneous speech and fields of visual communication. Task-oriented communication is understood as a flexible coordination of modalities: language, gesture, face, eye movement and posture, modalities to be analysed and designed with methods of linguistics and computer science.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bielefeld
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Dieter Metzing
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Helmuth Feilke; Professor Dr. Dafydd Gibbon; Professorin Dr. Elisabeth Gülich; Privatdozent Dr. Franz Kummert; Professor Dr. Gert Rickheit (†); Professor Dr. Helge Ritter; Professor Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Sagerer; Professor Dr. Hans Strohner (†)