Research into Digital Representations of Sign Language

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 10, 2005

Saduf Naqvi from the UK wrote:
> Let me introduce myself, I am a research student from Goldsmiths  
> College
> University of London, and am researching Deaf views on Digital  
> Representations
> of Sign Language.


Hello Saduf and Everyone!
Welcome to the SignWriting List, Saduf....Your research sounds very  
interesting (full message pasted below)...

Have you visited this web page before?

SignWriting in Great Britain
http://signwriting.org/uk/

You will find a great article on writing BSL in SignWriting. You can  
download it on that web page. Plus there are other SignWriting sites  
that come from Great Britain, which you will also find on the above  
web page...

Next message I will write an email in SignWriting...I will use  
American Signs, and place an English translation below. Anyone can do  
that now. Maybe later you might want to try to send us an email in  
British Sign Language?

Go to the British SignPuddle on this web page...and then click on  
SignMail to send an email in SignWriting:

SignPuddle on the Web
http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle

scroll down to find the British Sign Language dictionary on that page...

Val ;-)


Valerie Sutton
Sutton at SignWriting.org

1. SignWriting
http://www.SignWriting.org
Read & Write Sign Languages

2. SignBank
http://www.SignBank.org
Sign Language Dictionaries


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On Oct 10, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Saduf Naqvi wrote:
> Let me introduce myself, I am a research student from Goldsmiths  
> College
> University of London, and am researching Deaf views on Digital  
> Representations
> of Sign Language.
>
> When I say Digital Representations of Sign Language (DRSL) I mean  
> methods of
> communicating to the d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing community without  
> the use of a
> an actual physical signer.  It is with the use of other systems,  
> such as Video
> systems where you have full recordings of signers, animation  
> systems that use
> Avatars (Virtual Humans) to sign information, or notation systems  
> that depict
> signs or pictorially represent information.  All three of these  
> systems keep
> within the visual style and nature of sign language, however they  
> are all rated
> very differently.
>
> I am currently in the final year of my thesis and am going to  
> conduct my major
> study, this will be comparatively evaluating DRSLs.  Obviously I  
> would like to
> include a notation system, and I thought a very widely used and  
> popular system
> is the SignWriting system.
>
> So this leads me to what I am doing here.  I would like to know  
> more about
> SignWriting, do you all view it as a method of representing sign  
> language
> through a series of graphics/images.  Also when I do get to  
> including this in my
> research, I would like some advice on how to best represent the  
> information I
> would like to show through SignWriting, how to write it correctly  
> etc.  I don't
> want to make mistakes, I would like the consultation of the experts  
> (you all!!!)
>
> I will have more details of the information that will need  
> translating into
> SignWriting early next week, and more information on the study  
> itself by early
> next week aswell.  Anyone interested please let me know and I'll be  
> more than
> happy to send information.
>
> Also if anyone is interested in participation in this research,  
> please email me
> I would love to have as many participants as possible to give a  
> wide range of
> results, it should be a very interesting study.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you all.
>
> take care
>
> Saduf
>
> -- 
> Miss Saduf Naqvi,
> S.Naqvi at gold.ac.uk
> Research Student,
> Goldsmiths College - University of London,
> New Cross,
> London,
> SE14 6NW,
> 020-7919-7462
>