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Sotaro Kita
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Born and raised in Japan. Lived in the US, and the Netherlands. Now, I am teaching psychology in a British university. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/people/skita/skita
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Fantastic news. Congratulations.
July 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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We analzyed to what extent gestures have "crisp" vs. "sloppy" handshapes. Crips handshapes indicate a discrete (finite) set of handshapes used in the communication system.
These figures show three gesture handshapes. (a) shows an index finger pointing handshape and (c) shows a similar handshape but with both index and middle fingers extended. (b) is an intermediate handshape, where the index finger is fully extended but the middle finger is only partially extended. Figure 1. Examples of canonical (crisp) handshapes (a, c), in which fingers are clearly selected or unselected, and an intermediate (sloppy) handshape (b), in which some fingers (in this example the middle finger) are somewhere between selected and unselected. (a) canonical (crisp) (b) intermediate (sloppy) (c) canonical (crisp)
July 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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I think, I had to flip left and right of the photo, so that the hand points to the opening side of the book. (The original photo, where the finger points to left, did not look quite right as a book cover).
June 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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And, I took the photograph!
June 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I just posted summaries of my publications in 2024-2025. You can read more about me at warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psyc...
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January 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM