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The coronavirus outbreak is causing people to rethink the handshake and seek other gestures that perform similar functions without touch.
Instead of worrying that emoji is replacing competent language use, we can celebrate that emoji are creating a richer form of online communication that returns the features of gesture to language.
A simple idea that’s surprisingly secure: drawing your own unlock pattern on a touchscreen. Faster and easier to remember than a password, and much harder to guess or crack.
What can a bunch of people grunting in a lab teach us about our capacity to create language systems? A lot about the gesture- or vocalization-based origins of language.
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Aalto University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Reader in Performance, University of Portsmouth
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David Myers Research Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development, University of Washington
