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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Could your technology be used to control a robot (physically realized) with English or sign language?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:richard@kennaway.org.uk">Richard Kennaway</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, September 17, 2019 3:14 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">x3d-public@web3d.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [x3d-public] New Work Statement -- X3D Scenegraph to SemanticDescription and back. Semantics to Animation</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I've done some work on animating sign language myself, going from the </p><p class=MsoNormal>HamNoSys notation </p><p class=MsoNormal>(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Notation_System) to a more </p><p class=MsoNormal>convenient XML-ised version called SiGML (Signing Gesture Markup </p><p class=MsoNormal>Language), and thence to animation data for any given avatar. The </p><p class=MsoNormal>animation data can be generated in a variety of formats, including </p><p class=MsoNormal>VRML, although I've never upgraded it to generate X3D. The most </p><p class=MsoNormal>complete description of the general approach I took is in the </p><p class=MsoNormal>unpublished (except for arXiv) "Avatar-independent scripting for </p><p class=MsoNormal>real-time gesture animation" https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02961.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-- Richard Kennaway</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Quoting John Carlson <yottzumm@gmail.com>:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[Hide Quoted Text]</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Movement_Writing_Alphabet</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>http://www.movementwriting.org/</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It appears that there is quite a bit of research behind translating </p><p class=MsoNormal>sign languages and other movement languages to a graphical form.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Interesting!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>x3d-public mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>x3d-public@web3d.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://web3d.org/mailman/listinfo/x3d-public_web3d.org</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>