Bio
Hello everyone, my name is Šárka Kadavá. Since October 2022, I have been working as a doctoral researcher at the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics in Berlin. I am part of the FLESH project, which is lead by Dr Aleksandra Ćwiek, Dr Susanne Fuchs and Dr Wim Pouw and which falls under the DFG priority programme Visual Communication (ViCom, SPP 2329).
In my research, I focus on multimodal communicative behavior and the dynamics between speech and gesture. Concretely, I am interested in the concept of so-called communicative effort, how it can be measured in multimodal interactional settings and how it can inform our understanding of the dynamics of social interaction. I am currently analyzing whether people become more 'effortful' when they attempt to resolve a misunderstanding.
I am currently also a PhD representative at my institute, Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics, together with Freideriki Tselekidou.
Previously, I studied at Charles University in Prague and obtained Master's degrees in Czech philology and Electronic culture and semiotics.
I also worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Under the supervision of Dr Nikola Paillereau, I was part of the team developing parent questionnaires (MB-CDI) for Czech children called Dovyko.
My research interests include multimodal communication, dynamical views of communication, and machine learning tools used to study communicative behaviour.
When I am outside of my office, I love hiking, climbing, reading, and searching for hidden treasures on flea markets.
