[Research Project] Word–Gesture Alignment for Generative Embodied AI Tutors

Status: In preparation (target: CHI 2027) Related poster: Pangrui Xing, Lai Wei, Kenny K. N. Chow. ISGS ‘25

This line continues the CSCW and IASDR work on how lecturers’ gestures line up with spoken words. The present question is how that alignment can inform generative embodied AI tutors—when a beat, a point, or an iconic gesture should land relative to speech, rather than treating gesture as decoration on a talking head.

Working title: Word–Gesture Alignment for Generative Embodied AI Tutors: Evidence from Human Instruction.

Earlier related papers: CSCW 2023, IASDR 2023.