Gesture and Sign Languages in Human-Computer Interaction [electronic resource] : International Gesture Workshop, GW 2001, London, UK, April 18-20, 2001. Revised Papers /

Invited Paper -- Research on Computer Science and Sign Language: Ethical Aspects -- Gesture Recognition -- An Inertial Measurement Framework for Gesture Recognition and Applications -- Interpretation of Shape-Related Iconic Gestures in Virtual Environments -- Real-Time Gesture Recognition by Means of Hybrid Recognizers -- Development of a Gesture Plug-In for Natural Dialogue Interfaces -- A Natural Interface to a Virtual Environment through Computer Vision-Estimated Pointing Gestures -- Recognition of Sign Language -- Towards an Automatic Sign Language Recognition System Using Subunits -- Signer-Independent Continuous Sign Language Recognition Based on SRN/HMM -- A Real-Time Large Vocabulary Recognition System for Chinese Sign Language -- The Recognition of Finger-Spelling for Chinese Sign Language -- Overview of Capture Techniques for Studying Sign Language Phonetics -- Gesture and Sign Language Synthesis -- Models with Biological Relevance to Control Anthropomorphic Limbs: A Survey -- Lifelike Gesture Synthesis and Timing for Conversational Agents -- SignSynth: A Sign Language Synthesis Application Using Web3D and Perl -- Synthetic Animation of Deaf Signing Gestures -- From a Typology of Gestures to a Procedure for Gesture Production -- A Signing Avatar on the WWW -- Nature and Notation of Sign Language -- Iconicity in Sign Language: A Theoretical and Methodological Point of View -- Notation System and Statistical Analysis of NMS in JSL -- Head Movements and Negation in Greek Sign Language -- Study on Semantic Representations of French Sign Language Sentences -- SignWriting-Based Sign Language Processing -- Gestural Action & Interaction -- Visual Attention towards Gestures in Face-to-Face Interaction vs. on Screen -- Labeling of Gestures in SmartKom - The Coding System -- Evoking Gestures in SmartKom - Design of the Graphical User Interface -- Quantitative Analysis of Non-obvious Performer Gestures -- Interactional Structure Applied to the Identification and Generation of Visual Interactive Behavior: Robots that (Usually) Follow the Rules -- Are Praxical Gestures Semiotised in Service Encounters? -- Applications Based on Gesture Control -- Visually Mediated Interaction Using Learnt Gestures and Camera Control -- Gestural Control of Sound Synthesis and Processing Algorithms -- Juggling Gestures Analysis for Music Control -- Hand Postures for Sonification Control -- Comparison of Feedforward (TDRBF) and Generative (TDRGBN) Network for Gesture Based Control.