SPP 2392:  Visual communication. Theoretical, empirical, and applied perspectives (ViCom)

• Subject Area: Humanities ; Biology ; Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering ; Mathematics ; Medicine ; Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 461069267

Over the last years, Visual Communication has firmly established itself as an internationally recognized field. The first phase of the Priority Program "Visual Communication". Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives (ViCom) has played a key role in shaping this development. Indicators highlighting both the progress of Visual Communication as a discipline and ViCom's significant contribution include - to name only a few - numerous publications, extensive participation in peer-reviewed conferences and workshops, diverse outreach activities, and successful career advancements of early-career researchers. The coordination project has effectively supported researchers within ViCom and fostered collaborations with external scholars working on related topics. A range of targeted measures has been implemented, such as networking programs, early-career support, gender equality initiatives, and accessibility for deaf researchers. In the second funding phase, the scientific objectives remain broadly the same, aiming to further investigate the special features and linguistic significance of different components of visual communication. Central measures will include the continued development of robust cognitive and formal linguistic theories, as well as empirical methods tailored specifically for visual communication research. Coordination activities will focus on refined administrative structures, the establishment of a centralized methodological framework, enhanced professional development and theory workshops, and intensified support for early-career researchers. These measures aim to ensure ViCom remains at the forefront of the field and continues to provide a collaborative, innovative research environment.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• International Connection: Brazil, France, Indonesia, Netherlands, Norway, Spain

Projects

• Audiovisual Perception of Emotion and Speech in Hearing Individuals and Cochlear Implant Users (Applicants Dobel, Christian ;  Gast, Volker ;  Schweinberger, Stefan R. )
• Audiovisual Perception of Emotion in Hearing Persons and Cochlear Implant Users (Applicants von Eiff, Celina Isabelle ;  Schweinberger, Stefan R. )
• Co-speech gestures and prosody as multimodal markers of information structure (Applicants Kügler, Frank ;  Prieto, Ph.D., Pilar )
• Compositional structures in chimpanzee gestural communication (Applicant Liebal, Katja )
• Computational Semantics of Graded Speech–Gesture Integration Using VR Technology (CoSGrIn-Vr) (Applicants Lücking, Andy ;  Mehler, Alexander )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Ebert, Cornelia )
• Decompositional Semantics of Face Emojis in Digital Communication (Applicants Grosz, Patrick Georg ;  Scheffler, Tatjana )
• Doubling in signed child language in A-bar variable positions (DISCAVA) (Applicants Rathmann, Ph.D., Christian ;  Sauerland, Uli )
• Exploring the limits of simultaneity: Encoding caused change-of-state events with classifier constructions German Sign Language (DGS) (Applicant Loos, Cornelia )
• Gestures and Diagrams in Visual-Spatial Communication: Methodological Tools and Applications in Mathematics and Logic (Applicant Lemanski, Jens )
• Iconic content of co-speech gestures in the taxonomy of not-at-issue content (Applicant Tonhauser, Judith )
• Iconic metaphors and the gesture-sign interface in German Sign Language – corpus data meet experiments (Applicants Filatkina, Natalia ;  Herrmann, Annika )
• Iconicity in co-singing gesture: the foundations of gesture-vocalization resemblance in beatboxing (IconS) (Applicant Pearson, Lara )
• Lexical(ized) demonstrations in spoken and sign languages (Applicants Barnes, Kathryn ;  Steinbach, Markus )
• Lying and Commitment in the Visual Modality (Applicants Antomo, Mailin ;  Viebahn, Emanuel )
• Modality-Specific Effects on Language Processing in Children with Developmental Language Disorder (Applicants Lüke, Carina ;  Schäffner, Simone )
• Multimodal assessment of dyadic interaction in disorders of social interaction. (Applicant Schulte-Rüther, Martin )
• Multimodal communication in primates – a socio-ecological perspective (Applicant Amici, Federica )
• On the FLExibility and Stability of gesture-speecH coordination: Evidence from multimodal production, comprehension, and imitation (FLESH) (Applicants Cwiek, Aleksandra ;  Fuchs, Susanne ;  Pouw, Ph.D., Wim )
• Parts of speech and iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS) (Applicants Meister, Nina-Kristin ;  Steinbach, Markus ;  Zaccarella, Emiliano )
• Pragmatic reasoning with (non-)visual alternatives (Applicant Bade, Nadine )
• Representation of Pointing Uncertainty for the Integration of Pointing Gestures and Speech (Applicant Herbort, Oliver )
• The evolutionary trajectory of multimodal and multicomponent communication: A cross-species approach (EVOMICS) (Applicant Abreu, Filipa )
• The Gesture-to-Sign Trajectory: Phonological Parameters in Production and Real-Time Comprehension (Applicants Perniss, Pamela ;  Schumacher, Petra )
• The phonology and morphology of chimpanzee gestures (Applicant Liebal, Katja )
• Towards a morphology of recurrent gestures (ToMoReG) (Applicant Ladewig, Silva )
• Visual and non-visual means of perspective taking in language II (Applicants Ebert, Cornelia ;  Hinterwimmer, Stefan )
• Visual cues in polar questions (ViPQuest) (Applicants Loos, Cornelia ;  Roelofsen, Floris )
• Visual Feedback in Dyadic Interaction: Cross-Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Dynamics (FEEDBACK). (Applicant Bauer, Anastasia )

• Spokesperson: Professorin Dr. Cornelia Ebert