First Steps Towards a Signing Avatar for Railway Travel Announcements in the Netherlands

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2022
Host editors
  • E. Efthimiou
  • S.-E. Fotinea
  • T. Hanke
  • J.C. McDonald
  • D. Shterionov
  • R. Wolfe
Book title Proceedings : 7th Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology: The Junction of the Visual and the Textual: Challenges and Perspectives (SLTAT 7)
Book subtitle LREC 2022 Workshop : Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 24 June 2022
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9791095546825
Event Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology
Pages (from-to) 109-116
Number of pages 7
Publisher Paris: European Language Resources Association
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract This paper presents first steps towards a sign language avatar for communicating railway travel announcements in Dutch Sign Language. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it demonstrates effective ways to employ co-design and focus group methods in the context of developing sign language technology, and presents several concrete findings and results obtained through co-design and focus group sessions which have not only led to improvements of our own prototype but may also inform the development of signing avatars for other languages and in other application domains.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://aclanthology.org/2022.sltat-1.17
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