AUTHOR=Dimou Athanasia-Lida , Papavassiliou Vassilis , Goulas Theodoros , Vasilaki Kyriaki , Vacalopoulou Anna , Fotinea Stavroula-Evita , Efthimiou Eleni TITLE=What about synthetic signing? A methodology for signer involvement in the development of avatar technology with generative capacity JOURNAL=Frontiers in Communication VOLUME=Volume 7 - 2022 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.798644 DOI=10.3389/fcomm.2022.798644 ISSN=2297-900X ABSTRACT=
Although signing avatar technology seems to be the only option currently available to serve sign language (SL) display in the context of applications which demand generative capacity from the part of the technology like in machine translation to SL, signing avatars have not yet been accepted by signers' communities. One major factor for this rejection is the feeling that technology is developed without the involvement of its actual users. Aiming to invite the signers' community into the process of signing avatar development, we have designed the shell methodological framework for signer-informed technology which is implemented as on-line surveys addressed to signer communities of different SLs. The surveys are communicated