Kate's question about reading sequence...

[Kate Mc Nulty]

Dear all

Thank you so much for the reply, it is very helpful..I am with the avatar
group from South Africa.


On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Jonathan <duncanjonathan at yahoo.ca> wrote:

>  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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