Requirements for a gesture specification language: a comparison of two representation formalisms

Authors:
Alexis Heloir;Michael Kipp
Affiliations:
DFKI, Embodied Agents Research Group, Saarbrücken, Germany;DFKI, Embodied Agents Research Group, Saarbrücken, Germany
Venue:
GW'09 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We present a comparative study of two gesture specification languages. Our aim is to derive requirements for a new, optimal specification language that can be used to extend the emerging BML standard. We compare MURML, which has been designed to specify coverbal gestures, and a language we call LV, originally designed to describe French Sign Language utterances. As a first step toward a new gesture specification language we created EMBRScript, a low-level animation language capable of describing multi-channel animations, that can be used as a foundation for future BML extensions.