| Virtual human signing as expressive animation (2004) | |||||||||||||||
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| We present an overview of research at UEA into the animation of sign language using a gesture notation, outlining applications that have been developed and key aspects of the implementation. We argue that the requirements for virtual human signing involve the development of expressive characters. Although the principal focus of work has been on sign language, we believe that the work can be generalised easily and has a strong contribution to make to future research on expressive characters. 1 Signing Research at UEA 1 in 1000 people become deaf before they have acquired speech and may always have a low reading age for written English. Sign is their natural language. British Sign Language (BSL) has its own grammar and linguistic structure that is not based on English. Sign language is expressive in its own right, and is multimodal, combining manual gestures, other bodily movements, and facial expressions. Facial information is especially | |||||||||||||||
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