The haptic nature of gesture: Rethinking gesture with new multitouch digital technologies

Sinclair, N and De Freitas, E (2014) The haptic nature of gesture: Rethinking gesture with new multitouch digital technologies. Gesture, 14 (3). pp. 351-374. ISSN 1568-1475

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Abstract

© John Benjamins Publishing Company. This paper is about re-thinking gesture in order to reckon with its material and haptic nature, especially in the current multitouch technology environment. This re-thinking of gesture returns to the principle of indexicality found in Peirce's material semiotics, and develops this principle through the work of Gilles Châtelet and Gilles Deleuze around hand-eye relationships. Drawing on the work of Jürgen Streek, we propose and discuss the notion of the tangible gesture, in the context of mathematical explorations of young children with a multitouch iPad environment designed to promote counting on and with the fingers.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	21 Feb 2017 09:35
Publisher:	John Benjamins
Additional Information:	This is an Author Accepted Manuscript of a paper accepted for publication in Gesture, published by and copyright John Benjamins.
Divisions:	Faculties > Health and Education
Subject terms:	1702 Cognitive Science, 2004 Linguistics, 1701 Psychology
URI:	https://mmu-uat.leaf.cosector.com/id/eprint/617988
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.14.3.04sin
ISSN	1568-1475

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