The Organization of Turn-Taking in Pool Skate Sessions

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Research on Language and Social Interaction on 18th November 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08351813.2015.1090114.This study takes pool skating, where only one skater rides at a time, as an example of a turn-taking system, albeit one that is organized not through speech but through bodily actions. This allows us to revisit Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson’s (1974) famous “turn taking” paper—in particular, their initial broad conception of turn-taking systems as including activities other than the speech-exchange systems studied by conversation analysis. Despite the original declaration, non-speech turn-taking systems have evaded close scrutiny for the past four decades. By turning our attention to such a system here, this study makes two contributions: firstly, to the sociology of turn-organized activities (through a comparison of the central features of turn-taking for conversation with pool skating) and, secondly, to the study of how bodily actions can accomplish pre-beginnings (since in pool skate sessions, this is the place to settle the matter of turn allocation in order to avoid overlaps in riding)

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A Spatio-Spectral Algorithm for Robust and Scalable Object Tracking in Videos

Abstract. In this work we propose a mechanism which looks at processing the low-level visual information present in video frames and prepares mid-level tracking trajectories of objects of interest within the video. The main component of the proposed framework takes detected objects as inputs and generates their appearance models, maintains them and tracks these individuals within the video. The proposed object tracking algorithm is also capable of detecting the possibility of collision between the object trajectories and resolving it without losing their models.