SW - animated receptive point of view

[Juliette Dalle]

Wow !

I never thought that my animations would give a passionate debatting..


Le lundi, 10 avr 2006, à 19:42 Europe/Paris, Charles Butler a écrit :

> Stefan and Sr. Rocha,
>  
> This question of presentation will, I think, always be with us.  I'm 
> going back and working on the Libras/ASL dictionaries, and that has 
> been one thing I've debated over. 
>  
> I'd love to see a macro (dream list) that could take any document that 
> uses IMWA imbedded and flip it all from right hand primary expressive 
> to left hand primary receptive or any other mirroring exercise.  Now 
> that would be a good challenge for any Python expert. 
>  
> I am so glad to see you on line, Sr. Rocha, as it's been a long time.  
> I'm still working on coming down in December for at least a month.
>  
> Charles Butler
>  
>  
>
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> Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa <rocha at ATLAS.UCPEL.TCHE.BR> wrote:
>
> Stefan,
>
> > ..... "We have found that animations using SW are easier to 
> understand if
> > written in receptive mode (specially for those not yet trained in
> > reading SW, as children that are beginning to read it)." ...
> >
> > This statement is not any conclusion of a significant proof -but 
> more kind
> > of "feeling" with specific children contacted by an specific SW -
> > instructor? .. orwhat do you mean "easier to understand" ?
>
> No, no science intended! Just our feeling. Looks like the SW
> animation makes a bridge between the realistic drawings of signs (as
> usual in sign language books for children), which are always shown in
> the receptive point of view, and the formal writing in SW, which of
> course is preferable in the expressive point of view.
>
> But you are right, just our feeling.
>
> All the best,
>
> Antônio Carlos
>
> --
> Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa
> Escola de Informática
> Coord. Mestrado em Ciência da Computação
> Programa de Pós-graduação em Informática
> Universidade Católica de Pelotas
> http://ppginf.ucpel.tche.br
>
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