Universidade de São Paulo, research group “Descrição da Língua de Sinais Brasileira”. .... Research Infrastructure project 'CLARIN-D', Work Group 6: Speech.
Julius Hassemer (curriculum vitae)
Education 2009 - 2016
Dissertation at the Institute for Language and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy, RWTH Aachen University. Monograph: Towards a Theory of Gesture Form Analysis. Imaginary forms as part of gesture conceptualisation, with empirical support from motion-capture data. Advisors: Irene Mittelberg, Klaus Willmes-v. Hinckeldey, and Cornelia Müller (European University Viadrina)
2009
Linguistic Summer Institute 2009, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2006 - 2009
Master of Intercultural Communication Studies at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder): Chief Pointing-Eye. Multiarticulatory metaphorical gestures expressing high Advisor: Cornelia Müller; final degree 1.2 (1.0 in written and oral exam)
2003 - 2006
B.A., Information and Communication Management, OTA University, Berlin, Final degree 1.7 (best degree in cohort)
Employment history and formation 2017 - 2018
Return grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2016 - 2017
Research Fellowship by the German Research Foundation (DFG) “Quantification of Gesture Form Analysis. Application of GFA to gestures within sign language and development of an interdisciplinary coding system” Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
2014 - 2015
Postdoctoral researcher in the project “Prosody and gestures in multilingual speakers” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (University of London, SOAS & University of Münster), corresponding coordinator Mandana Seyfeddinipur
2013
Writing dissertation; teaching assignment at the European University, Frankfurt (Oder)
2009 - 2012
Doctoral researcher and lab coordinator, Natural Media Lab; interdisciplinary gesture research project Natural Media & Engineering (director Irene Mittelberg), funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments; Human Technology Centre, RWTH Aachen University
2008 - 2009
Research Assistant at the interdisciplinary gesture research project “Towards a Grammar of Gesture” (Müller; Fricke; Lausberg; Liebal) funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
2005
Internship at the Gulbenkian Cultural Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal
2003 - 2016
Singer, moderator and manager of prize-winning ensemble TRIO OHRENSCHMALZ
2003
Internship at the Palast Orchester mit seinem Sänger Max Raabe, Berlin
2001 – 2003
Civil Service at the NGO “Callescuela” in Asunción, Paraguay
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Publications and theses Hassemer, J. & McCleary, L. (submitted). The multidimensionality of pointing. Gesture. (graphical summary/typology of pointing gestures) Hassemer, J. & Winter, B. (submitted). Decoding gestural iconicity. Cognitive Science. Joue, G., Habel, U., Demenescu, L. R., Hassemer, J., Willmes, K., Mathiak, K., Schneider, F., Boven, L., Mittelberg, I., Evola, V. (submsitted). Metaphor processing is supramodal semantic processing: the role of the bilateral lateral temporal regions in multimodal communication. Brain and Language. Joue, G., Boven, L., Willmes, K., Evola, V., Demenescu, L. R., Hassemer, J., Mittelberg, I., Mathiak, K., Schneider, F., Habel, U. (2018). Grasping or being the concept: an fMRI study on metonymy representations in coverbal gestures. Neuropsychologia. Hassemer, J. & Winter, B. (2016). Producing and Perceiving gestures conveying height or shape. Gesture 15(3), 404-424. Hassemer, J. (2016). Towards a Theory of Gesture Form Analysis. Imaginary forms as part of gesture conceptualisation, with empirical support from motion-capture data. Dissertation, RWTH Aachen University. Hassemer, J., Joue, G., Willmes, K., & Mittelberg, I (2011). Dimensions and mechanisms of form constitution: Towards a formal description of gestures. In Proceedings of 2nd Conference of Gesture and Speech in Interaction, (GESPIN). September 5-7, 2011, Bielefeld. Hassemer. J. (2009). Chief Pointing-Eye. Multiarticulatory metaphorical gestures expressing high. Master’s thesis, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). Invited talks, lab talks 2017
“Dynamic movements for dynamic cars. A new generation of gesture control.” BMW Forschungs- und Innovationszentrum. Munich, November 29th.
2017
“Hand-Car Interaction. A new challenge for HCI.” Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Institut Mensch-Computer-Medien. Würzburg, November 28th.
2017
“Gesture research as a source for experimental hypotheses.” Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Thomas Gunter, Hellmuth Obrig and colleagues. Leipzig, November 1st.
2017
“Gesture control 2.0. A body interface for the future car.” Volkswagen Group Future Center Europe. Potsdam, September, 13th.
2017
“From theory to intuitive gesture control. Gesture research for the future car.” German Autolabs. Berlin, May 23rd.
2017
“Self-driving but gesture-controlled. Gesture research for the future car.” Volkswagen Digital:Lab. Berlin, May 11th.
2016
“Analyse multidimensional das formas gestuais: relevante para línguas de senais também?” Universidade de São Paulo, research group “Descrição da Língua de Sinais Brasileira”. Lab talk, host: Felipe Venancio Barbosa. São Paulo, December, 6th.
2016
“Gesture conceptualisation and the role of imaginary forms”. Lab talk, host: José Mario De Martino. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de
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Computação. Campinas, November 10th. Conference presentations 2017
Hassemer, J. Iconicity in pointing gestures. Work in progress on a gesture typology. Types of iconicity in language use, development, and processing. July 6-7. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands.
2017
Winter, B. & Hassemer, J. Profiling iconicity: Selective depiction in height and shape gestures. 11th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature. April 6-8. Brighton, England.
2017
Winter, B. & Hassemer, J. Profiling iconicity: Producing and perceiving height and shape gestures. Conferência international sobre gesto e multimodalidade. February 2-3. Porto, Portugal.
2016
McCleary, L. & Hassemer, J. Finger tutting: Analyses of illusion-based finger dancing. 7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS7). July 18-22. Paris, France.
2016
Hassemer, J. & Winter, B. Height and shape gestures: Profiling different surface areas in competing gesture interpretations. 7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS7). July 18-22. Paris, France.
2015
Salffner, S., Hassemer, J., Gut, U., & Seyfeddinipur, M., & Stein, N. Prosodic and gestural marking of contrastive focus in Ikaan. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2015. Cambridge.
2014
Hassemer, J. Gesture Form: Analysis and Typology. 6th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS6), July 8-11. San Diego, USA. (received stipend by the Executive Board of the International Society for Gesture Studies; poster presentation)
2013
Hassemer, J. Conceptualizing gesture form: Introducing a set of gesture form principles tested through 3D motion capture data analyses. Twelfth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of Alberta, June 23-28, 2013, Canada.
2013
Hassemer, J. Talmy's topological dimensions of figure and ground applied to gesture (Theme session: Consolidating a Map of Talmyan Cognitive Semantics). Twelfth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of Alberta, June 23-28, 2013, Canada. Hassemer, J. Gesture form principles in object description. Insights from participant reports and Motion-Capture analysis. Fifth conference of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS5). Lund University, July 24-27, 2012, Sweden.
2012
2011
Hassemer, J., Joue, G., Willmes, K., & Mittelberg, I. Dimensions and mechanisms of form constitution: Towards a formal description of gestures. 2nd Conference of Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN). September 5-7, 2011, Bielefeld.
2011
Hassemer, J., Mittelberg, I. Spatial dimensions as distinguishing parameter of gestural form. The Third Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC III). University of Copenhagen, June 14 – 16, 2011, Denmark.
2011
Hassemer, J., Mittelberg, I. How hand shape and motion construct form in iconic and indexical gestures. Seventh Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS). May 6-8, 2011. Lund University, Sweden.
2010
Hassemer, J., Müller, C. & Mittelberg, I. Marker analysis. Geometrical dimensions of gestural form. 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), July 25-30, 2010, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder.
2009
Hassemer, J., Müller, C., Jäger L., & Mittelberg, I. Marker analysis: Geometrical dimensions at the basis of gestural form. ERS Impulse Workshop ‘Communication Technology and Brains’,
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March 6, 2010, RWTH Aachen University. (poster presentation). Interviews 2016
Hassemer, J. & Engel, L. (2016). „Wannabe Jedis” (“Jedi sein wollen”). Stylepark Magazine (Stylepark AG). www.stylepark.com/en/news/wannabe-jedis.
Open data publication 2017
Update of NM-Mocap-Corpus - include multi-rater annotations in the coding system Gesture Form Analysis.
2016
Hassemer, J. & Winter, B. (2016; Gesture 15(3), 404-424): Stimuli, methods and scripts. http://tiny.cc/HeightShapeGESTUREdata.
2015
Natural Media Motion-Capture Corpus (NM-MoCap-Corpus) - Multiple (highspeed) cameras - 3D data and data processing methods (Vicon hard- and software) Framework: European Research Infrastructure project ‘CLARIN-D’, Work Group 6: Speech and other Modalities (Stefan Kopp), Excellence Cluster CITEC, University of Bielefeld.
Teaching, advising and gesture-data coding resources 2017
2017 2017 2017
Universidade de São Paulo Coding system for Gesture Form Analysis - coding manuals in English and Portuguese - template files for the transcription software ELAN - typology of pointing gestures M.A. seminar on automatic gesture recognition and gesture form analysis with Sarajane Péres (Information Sciences). Introduccao à Análise de Forma Gestual para gestos e sinais. One-day workshop. Universidade Federal de São Carlos. São Carlos, June 14. Developing a Gesture Form Analysis coding system: gesture typology, Elan template files, manuals in English and Portuguese, individual training of researchers and nonresearchers.
2013
European University Frankfurt (Oder) B.A. seminar Gesture and Cognitive Linguistics
2012 2011
RWTH Aachen University Co-advised four M.A. Theses, pre-evaluated three M.A. and three B.A. Theses (RWTH) M.A. seminar on Gesture Analysis; several introductory sessions to Gesture Studies
Grants and scholarships 20172018
½-year return grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
20162017
1-year Research Fellowship by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as a Visiting Professor at the Universidade de São Paulo.
2013
Conference bursary for the Twelfth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of Alberta, June 23-28, 2013, Canada.
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Other research activities 2012
Initiation and organisation of talks by Leonard Talmy (University at Buffalo) and Bodo Winter (UC Merced) Served as actor for controlled speech-gesture video stimuli for two studies: 2012 Metaphorical and metonymical speech and gesture combinations for an fMRI study of autistic and depressive test subjects, by Gina Joue (Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH University Hospital) 2010 Congruent and incongruent speech and gesture combinations for mathematical tasks (Klaus Willmes, Neuropsychology, RWHT University Hospital)
Computer applications Graphics
Vector Image
Statistics 3D motion capturing
Inkscape, Illustrator Photoshop R Vicon Nexus
Languages German English Portuguese Spanish French German Sign Language (DGS) Polish Guaraní
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