A Signing Avatar on the WWW

  • Authors:
  • Margriet Verlinden;Corrie Tijsseling;Han Frowein

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • GW '01 Revised Papers from the International Gesture Workshop on Gesture and Sign Languages in Human-Computer Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The work described is part of the European project ViSiCAST, which develops an avatar presented in a web page, signing the current weather forecast. The daily content of the forecast is created by semi-automatic conversion of a written weather forecast into sign language. All signs needed for weather forecasts were separately recorded by way of motion capturing. The sign language forecast is displayed on a computer by and animating fluently blended sequences of pre-recorded signs. Through a browser plug-in, this application will work on the world-wide-web.