PAMOCAT: linking motion capturing and conversation analysis

In order to model the non-verbal communicative conduct of humans, it is needed to be understood in detail. Therefore it is fruitful to combine qualitative (Conversation Analysis) and quantitative analytical (Motion Capturing) methods. Tools for data visualization and annotation are important since they constitute a central interface between different research approaches and methodologies. With this aim we have developed the pre-annotation tool "PAMOCAT - Pre Annotation Motion Capture Analysis Tool" [2]. This has a sophisticated user interface that easily allows the annotating person to find correlations between different joints and/or phenomena, to analyze the corresponding 3D pose in a reconstructed virtual environment, and to export combined qualitative and quantitative annotations to standard annotation tools. The tool has the functionality to easily search for distinct constellations of different phenomena and display frames in which these could be found in an annotation overview.