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We have created software for automatic synthesis of signing animations from the HamNoSys transcription notation. In this process we have encountered certain shortcomings of the notation. We describe these, and consider how to develop a notation more suited to computer animation.
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Kennaway, R. (2004). Experience with and Requirements for a Gesture Description Language for Synthetic Animation. In: Camurri, A., Volpe, G. (eds) Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction. GW 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2915. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24598-8_28
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