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Humans communicate face-to-face through at least two modalities, the auditive modality, speech, and the visual modality, gestures, which comprise e.g. gaze movements, facial expressions, head movements, and hand gestures. The relation between speech and gesture is complex and partly depends on factors such as the culture, the communicative situation, the interlocutors and their relation. Investigating these factors in real data is vital for studying multimodal communication and building models for implementing natural multimodal communicative interfaces able to interact naturally with individuals of different age, culture, and needs. In this paper, we discuss to what extent big data “in the wild”, which are growing explosively on the internet, are useful for this purpose also in light of legal aspects about the use of personal data, comprising multimodal data downloaded from social media.

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  1. 1.

    http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/.

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    In the GDPR article 4(7) the controller is defined as “the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law”.

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    This includes all information about (i) the identity and the contact details of the controller, (ii) the contact details of the data protection officer (where applicable), (iii) the purposes of the processing for which the personal data are intended and the legal basis for the processing, (iv) the recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data (if any), (v) the fact (when relevant) that the controller intends to transfer personal data to a third country or international organisation, (vi) the period for which the personal data will be stored, or if that is not possible, the criteria used to determine that period, (vii) the existence of the right to request from the controller access to and rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing concerning the data subject or to object to processing as well as the right to data portability, (viii) in cases when the processing is based on consent, the existence of the right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal, (ix) the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, and (x) the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling (if any).

  4. 4.

    Cf. Judgement of 6 November 2003, Lindqvist (C 101/01, EU:C:2003:596, paragraph 47).

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Navarretta, C., Oemig, L. (2019). Big Data and Multimodal Communication: A Perspective View. In: Esposito, A., Esposito, A., Jain, L. (eds) Innovations in Big Data Mining and Embedded Knowledge. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 159. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15939-9_9

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