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.
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.
