Summary: The international gesture workshops are interdisciplinary events for those
researching gesture-based communication and wishing to meet and exchange ideas
across disciplines. A focus of these events is a shared interest in using
gesture and sign language in human-computer interaction. The 1996 gesture
workshop in York, UK, organized by Philip Harling and Alistair Edwards is
considered the starting event. Henceforth international gesture workshops have
been held roughly every second year, with fully reviewed post-proceedings
typically published by Springer-Verlag.
