The Potential Field Multimodal Communication (MultiCom) is delighted to announce that 11 short-term collaborations have been selected for funding following the recent call.
The short-term collaborations are at the heart of MultiCom. They are intended to bring different scholarly perspectives and disciplines into conversation with one another and to open up new interdisciplinary dialogues on multimodality and multimodal communication. We are very pleased by the strong response to the call. The selected projects provide an excellent starting point for developing research on multimodality at Goethe University as a broadly interdisciplinary field. The funded collaborations involve researchers from a wide range of areas, including several subfields of linguistics, neurocognitive psychology, anthropology, theatre studies, media theory and sound studies, photography, media archaeology, and visual culture.
The funded short-term collaborations are listed below. Further information on the individual projects will be published on our website soon.
The selected projects will present first results at the second MultiCom Workshop, which will take place on 20 November 2026 at Goethe University Frankfurt, Gästehaus Frauenlobstraße. Interested colleagues are warmly invited to attend.
Researchers who would like to get involved in MultiCom or become associated with the Potential Field are welcome to contact the coordinator of the Potential Field: Lennart Fritzsche
Funded short-term collaborations
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The interplay of linguistic prominence and visual salience in sports reporting
Markus Bader and Yvonne Portele -
Kathryn Barnes and Frank Kügler
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Christoph Bracks, Alina Gregori, and Frank Kügler
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Prominenz in Produktion und Wahrnehmung multimodaler künstlerischer Performances
Cornelia Ebert, Frank Kügler, Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, and Anna Pressler -
When Gestures Stop Making Sense: Adapting the Semantic Satiation Paradigm to Gesture Processing
Cornelia Ebert, Andrey Logutov, Markus Steinbach, and Patrick Trettenbrein -
Remembering what is backgrounded: Extending sentence recall to multimodal communication
Cornelia Ebert, Yvonne Portele, and Sebastian Walter -
Semantic Satiation in Word and Gesture Processing: A Pilot Study
Christian Fiebach, Jack E. Taylor, and Cornelia Ebert -
Imaginary Multimodal Machines: A Participatory Museum
Andrey Logutov, Boris Podoroga, and Tomáš Dvořák -
Workshop on the Multimodal Appreciation Toolkit
Simone Pfeifer, Andrew Gilbert, and Carla J. Maier -
Text–image interactions in visual narratives
Yvonne Portele and Sebastian Walter -
Recalibration Effects in Thai: Using Unique Features of Thai to Understand the Locus of Auditory-Visual Interactions in Word Perception
Jack E. Taylor and Christoph Bracks