My TED 2012 presentation

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
August 9, 2012

Thank you for this message, Charles. Of course we all agree with you from a user's point of view.

From a programming perspective, the fact that SignWriting was used to program the Avatar to move like that, is a good thing…

... In the past people told us that HamNoSys was better at programming Avatars to move, but Professor Jemni's project, I believe uses a form of SWML that they may have tweaked a bit, but nonetheless, if SignWriting played a role in the programming of the Avatar then that is a valuable thing too…

I agree that the user interface could be using the written script for sign languages, SignWriting, to the benefit of the users as well - but those are two different roles to play -

Val ;-)

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On Aug 7, 2012, at 4:58 AM, Charles Butler wrote:

> I tried to comment on the TED forum but it wouldn't take my password. So, I'll reply here. I strongly feel you should use SignWriting in your search database. We were working with avatars years ago in Brazil, and the only difficulty I have is that they will not teach actual reading and writing to a Deaf audience. SignWriting will. With an avatar one still has a spoken word or written word database going to a signed language, not a writing system within the actual signed language. This does not build literacy, it builds dependence on essentially an "artificial" videotape. One can build a one-to-one vocabulary list or phrase-to-phrase, but the ongoing narrative of teaching a non-hearing population to be literate in their own language is here getting them to create a videotape assignment, never teaching actual writing and grammar in comparison to other writing and grammar. 
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> Charles Butler
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> Clear writing moves business forward.
> From: Mohamed JEMNI <mohamed.jemni at FST.RNU.TN>
> To: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 4:50 AM
> Subject: My TED 2012 presentation
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> Dear friends and colleagues, 
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> I would very much appreciate if you could take 10 minutes of your time to view this TED video talk and post a comment about it in the "feedback box".
> Few words will be enough. (you need to create a log in).
> The team needs some support to take it to the next stage; so please share it with your friends and colleagues: 
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> http://talentsearch.ted.com/video/Mohamed-Jemni-An-avatar-capable;TEDTunis
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> Thank you, 
> Mohamed JEMNI
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