The goal of our study is to explore which information is essential to understand virtual signing. To that aim, we developed an online test to assess the comprehensibility of four different versions of signers: a baseline version with a real human signer, a most complete version of a virtual signer, and two degraded versions of a virtual signer (one with non-visible hands and one without movements of head/trunk). Each video showed the description of a picture in French Sign Language (LSF). After having seen the video, participants had to find which picture had been described among 9 pictures displayed. The originality of our approach was to include two types of confusable pictures on the response board. One was supposed to induce errors by confounding the lexical signs and the other by confounding the spatial structure of the picture. In this way, we explored the effect of hiding hands and blocking trunk/head on the comprehension of lexicon and spatial structure.
@InProceedings{MALALA18.18028, author = {Vonjiniaina Domohina Malala ,Elise Prigent ,Annelies Braffort and Bastien Berret}, title = {Which Picture? A Methodology for the Evaluation of SL Animation Understandability}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Mayumi Bono and Eleni Efthimiou and
Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Thomas Hanke and
Julie Hochgesang and Jette Kristoffersen and
Johanna Mesch and Yutaka Osugi}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-01-6}, language = {english} }
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