Research into Digital Representations of Sign Language

[Saduf Naqvi]

Hi Valerie,

thats great thank you for all the information I will definately have a go and
write something, it will be great!!!

take care

Saduf

Quoting Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>:

> 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
> 
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> 
> 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
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Miss Saduf Naqvi,
S.Naqvi at gold.ac.uk
Research Student,
Goldsmiths College - University of London,
New Cross,
London,
SE14 6NW,
020-7919-7462