Sign-Language

Gesture Workshop, Vannes, France, 18-20 May 2005 This inter-disciplinary conference gathered a number of different people working with gestures, covering subjects such as sign language , linguistics, behavioural psychologists, sports movement, human computer interaction and musical interaction. We presented a paper on “air playing”, where Rolf Inge Godoy gave a theoretical introduction and described our observational studies and I presented the Musical Gestures Toolbox. It was interesting to get an overview of what is going on in the field of sign language and gesture linguistics. Many groups are working on different ways of creating sign language directly from speech, while others try to analyse sign language and generate text or speech. The latter is more interesting for my project, I think, since it involves computer vision and recognition. ...