Kate's question about reading sequence...

[Jonathan]

Hi Kate,
     I am the programmer of SignWriter Studio a SignWriting program 
which is currently in Beta. I had contemplated extending my program to 
export an avatar script and came to the conclusion that there exists the 
following challenges to use SignWriting to control an Avatar.

    * SignWriting was created for people to read and therefore does not
      include information in the script explicitly as to what symbol
      contacts what other symbol.  What symbol is a right or left hand,
      which one starts the movement and which ends the movement. 
      SignWriter Studio records whether the symbol was written as a
      right hand or a left hand making avatar analysis much easier and
      taking some of the guess work out.
    * For compound signs, there is no easy way for a program to tell
      each sign apart to do them one after another because they are all
      written in the same signbox space.  I have addressed this problem
      in SignWriter Studio with Frames.  Frames are a list of signbox
      elements each one with a sign of the compound sign, thus
      separating the signs so that programs can better analyze each
      individual sign and not be as confused as to which right hand goes
      with which movement and position symbols.
    * More timing information is needed to make an Avatar move smoothly.

I feel SignWriting is the right place to start for writing gestures for 
an avatar but more symbol order, linking  and timing information would 
be required to make an avatar move correctly.  What Val explained to you 
should be a good starting point for you to read and understand 
SignWriting so that you can extend the symbols with the additional 
information you will require to make your avatar work.

Jonathan

On 06/02/2010 6:13 PM, Kate Mc Nulty wrote:
>
> Dear Val
>
>
> I'm currently working on a project thats converts sign language that 
> is written in SignWriting to sign language gestures using an avatar.
>
> I am using the SWML as input to my system.
>
> My question is that in a case whereby a sign is composed of multiple 
> hand symbols, contact and movement symbols, How do I determine which 
> hand symbols are signed first and what follows thereafter..
>
> I've attached 3 examples of the above mentioned problem
>
>
> Also, in a sign that contains touch and movement symbol..
>
> How can I determine whether touch and move..or move and touch
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Kate
>
>
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