A mix of posts on gesture, HCI, perception or robots and some personal information.
I can not buy my iPhone yet They tell me it may come in June A Zune perhaps I’ll buy instead? Or sing along with Apple’s Tune?
The iPhone user interface is a fabulous piece of design as one might expect. They got many details right which is harder than it looks. And the screen space [...]
For those of you who want to know more about sign language poetry:
Rachel Sutton-Spence wrote a book (2004) with Paddy Ladd and Gillian Rudd on the topic (source - Amazon).
Can’t be bothered to get the book?
There is also a good analysis (28-page pdf) of sign language poetry available online by the same [...]
There is a wonderful sign language video of the song Zombie on YouTube.
I started a collection of other Sign Language Poetic Performances around it.
Seeing these videos strengthen my opinion that the poetic mechanisms available in sign language are quite rich and not all available in written, spoken, or sung language.
Some people are actively interested in the stuff I am doing in my PhD studies, or at least they ask me questions about it. I usually tell them about my first experiment. That experiment was entirely about the difference between meaningless movements I call fidgeting and meaningful gestures, in this case sign language signs.
“Press the [...]
Some people are actively interested in the stuff I am doing in my PhD studies, or at least ask me questions about it. I usually tell them about my first experiment. That experiment was entirely about the difference between meaningless movements I call fidgeting and meaningful gestures, in this case sign language signs.
“Press the spacebar [...]
In his book (1ed. 1969) Languages of Art, Nelson Goodman treats Labanotation as the most important dance notation system. It gets a thorough examination based on Goodman’s theory of symbol sytems. All in all Goodman considers Labanotation a fairly succesfull notational system, comparable to a music score.
Unfortunately, the philosophical concepts Goodman uses in his book [...]
I went to a cultural event today. There was poetry, there was music and even a short play. But the reason I went there was because someone pointed out to me that there was going to be sign language poetry. I have seen some signed poems in videos at Slope and ASL Quest, and even [...]
In the long winter night I wasted an hour on watching a documentary on an American gang called MS13, or Mara Salvatrucha. The entire documentary reeks of US-style fear mongering and is not recommendable. But at some point a girl called Brenda Paz started explaining some of the gestures, or hand signals, of the gang. [...]
As an illustration of the use of sign language synthesis this video was made for the Visicast project:
(More videos are available on the Visicast site)
It is a combination of speech recognition, automatic translation and sign language synthesis. The avatar is Tessa. Unfortunately, it does not work the other way. So, if the signer needs [...]
I recently read (or glanced through parts) of the 2003 book by Scott K. Liddell: Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign Language
The main message of the book is one that I would have found trivial if I did not know anything about linguistics. It must take a linguist to surprise a linguist, I guess. [...]
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