ABSTRACT
The viewpoints that Libby assumes in each condition demonstrate how viewpoint redirects an audience's attention to features of an object or situation that are not apparent in any other viewpoint. In the scientific process description, Libby uses analytic viewpoint gestures to depict the compression of the strata. McNeill (1998) observed that Libby's gestures anticipate the outcome of her actions and seem to transform the knowledge she has learned in training sessions into an embodied understanding of her environment. McNeill calls these gestures resultative because they anticipate the results or outcomes of actions.12 These gestures turn the viewer's attention toward the future, anticipating the results of the process she describes in speech and gesture.
