{"pk":50402,"title":"MESS (Mimed Expressive Short Stories) Database: Showcasing the potential of pantomime for story transmission","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Sometimes, stimulus preparation is the most resource-consuming stage of experiments on communication. We present an open ready-to-use database of mimed expressive short stories (150 .mp4 files, 03:34:56 of footage) funded by the National Science Centre of Poland under the agreement UMO 2021/43/D/HS2/01866. It can be used as a stimulus in experiments or for annotation or rating. We describe how the database was created: (1) preparation: we used Chat GPT 4.0. to create rich stories, with varying age, gender, number of characters, and themes; (2) recording: we worked with professional actors for maximum expressiveness; (3) editing: we synced front and side shots for maximum visibility; (4) annotating: we analysed representational strategies to argue that the database showcases the potential of pantomime for storysharing and discuss its implications for the pantomimic scenarios of language origins (e.g., Arbib, 2018, 2024; Zlatev et al., 2020).","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Humanities; Linguistics; Gesture analysis; Qualitative Analysis"}],"section":"Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n1421sf","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Marta","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sibierska","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nicolaus Copernicus University","department":""},{"first_name":"Klaudia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Karkowska","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nicolaus Copernicus University","department":""},{"first_name":"Marek","middle_name":"","last_name":"Placi_ski","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru_","department":""},{"first_name":"Monika","middle_name":"","last_name":"Boruta-Zywiczynska","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nicolaus Copernicus University","department":""},{"first_name":"Antoni","middle_name":"J","last_name":"_yndul","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nicolaus Copernicus University","department":""},{"first_name":"Przemyslaw","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zywiczynski","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nicolaus Copernicus University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50402/galley/38364/download/"}]}