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| PLT Recordings and Transcripts:                                              |
| The POETICON Lithic Tool multimodal database on spontaneous speech and       | 
| movement production on object affordances                                    |
| version 1.0                                                                  |
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| Release date: 01/09/2015                                                     |
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| Organisation:                                                                |
|   COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Athens, Greece  &                    |
|   INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING/ATHENA R.C., Athens, Greece   |
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| Related Documentation:                                                       |
|    Argiro Vatakis and Katerina Pastra (submitted), The PLT Corpus: A         |
|    multimodal dataset of spontaneous speech and movement production on       |
|    object affordances, Scientific Data, Nature Publishing Group.             |
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| Further details:                                                             |
|    http://csri.gr/scientific-achievements#node-835 		(PLT general)  |
|    http://csri.gr/demonstrations                                             |
|    http://csri.gr/open-access-data                                           |
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| Download from: http://csri.gr/downloads/PLT                                  |
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| Contact:                                                                     |
|    For further information, or to report any problems send an e-mail to:     |
|    Argiro Vatakis at avatakis@csri.gr or                                     |
|    Katerina Pastra at kpastra@csri.gr                                        |
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License:
	 This dataset is released under a creative commons non-commercial
     share-alike (BY-NC-SA) license.
     See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Cite as: 
	 Vatakis, A., & Pastra, K. (2015). PLT Recordings and Transcripts: 
	 The POETICON Lithic Tool multimodal database on spontaneous speech 
	 and movement production on object affordances. 
	 Athens: Cognitive Systems Research Institute.
	 version 1.0 http://csri.gr/downloads/CMR, ISLRN:022-103-177-574-9

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Overview:
    In the longstanding effort of defining object affordances, a number of
    resources have been developed on objects and associated knowledge. These
    resources, however, have limited potential for modeling and generalization
    mainly due to the restricted, stimulus bound data collection methodologies
    adopted. To-date, therefore, there exists no resource that truly captures
    object affordances in a direct, multimodal, and naturalistic way. Here, we
    present the first such resource of "thinking aloud", spontaneously-generated
    verbal and motoric data on object affordances. This resource was developed
    from the reports of 124 participants in three behavioural experiments with
    visuo-tactile stimulation, which were captured audiovisually from two
    camera-views (frontal/profile). This methodology allowed the acquisition of
    approximately 95 hours of video, audio, and text data covering:
    object-feature-action data (e.g., perceptual features, namings, functions),
    Exploratory Acts (haptic manipulation for feature acquisition/verification),
    gestures and demonstrations for object/feature/action description, and
    reasoning patterns (e.g., justifications, analogies) for attributing a given
    characterization. The wealth and content of the data make this corpus a
    one-of-a-kind resource for the study and modeling of object affordances.

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Files in this package:
   a. "CSRI-ReadMe-PLT_recordings_and_transcriptions.txt":
         current explanation file

   b. "Experimental_Information.xls":
         Spreadsheet with information on
            a) the participant’s assigned number and experiment (e.g., PN#_E#,
               where PN corresponds to the participant number and E to the
               experiment), which serves as a guide to the corresponding video,
               audio, and transcription files,
            b) basic  demographic information (e.g., gender, age), and
            c) the available data files for each participant, details regarding
               their size (in MB) and duration (in secs), and potential problems
               with these files. These problems are mostly due to dropped frames
               in one of the cameras and in some rare cases missing files. The
               excel file is composed of three different sheets that correspond
               to the three different experiments conducted.
   c. "Experiment_1.rar", "Experiment_2.rar", "Experiment_3.rar":
          Experiment-specific compressed files (rar format) that comprise
          audiovisual videos (mp4), audio files (.m4a), and transcription files
          (.trs), organized by experiment and participant. Each participant file
          contains the frontal (F) and profile (P) video recordings (e.g.,
          PN1_E1_F that refers to participant 1, experiment 1, frontal view) and
          the transcribed file along with the audio file. Also, the videos are
          labelled according to the condition with ‘NH’ when the object is in
          isolation, ‘H’ when the object is held by an agent, and ‘T’ when the
          actual, physical object is presented (e.g., PN1_E1_F_H.mp4 that
          refers to participant 1, experiment 1, frontal view, object held
          by an agent).

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| Cognitive Systems Research Institute (CSRI).                                 |
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