Gesture Lab becomes Interaction Lab

While the term ‘Gesture Lab’ clearly signaled an interest in gestures, it could also unintentionally influence participants’ expectations and behavior during experiments, specifically whether and how they chose to produce gestures. 

The new name, Interaction Lab, avoids this potential bias and more accurately represents the lab’s research focus. Research in this Lab goes beyond gestures alone and examines how people communicate multimodally in interactive settings. In conclusion, the updated name highlights this broader interest in interaction, encompassing speech, gesture, and other communicative behaviors as they naturally unfold between people.