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referent features are linked to morphological gesture features by an
intermediate level of image description features. These explicate the
imagistic content of iconic gestures, consisting of separable, qualitative
features describing the meaningful geometric and spatial properties
of entities.
3.2 Customized gesture generation
The research reviewed so far is devoted to build general models of
gesture use, i.e. systematic inter-personal patterns of gesture use are
incorporated exclusively. What is not considered in these systems is
individual variation which is investigated by another line of ...