Dear Martin and Ipke

First let me thank you for organising such a successful and interesting
workshop. The workshop at ZIF created the rare and much needed opportunity
for people working in the area of sign-language and gestural HCI to meet
and discuss their work. 

In addition, it was successful in the difficult task of bringing people
from different disciplines together. It was very gratifying to hear
researcher from areas including gesture, sign-linguistics, psychology,
movement physiology, computer science, artificial intelligence, and
industrial design discussing a common goal from their widely varying but
complementary perspectives. The distinct international flavour of the
meeting comprising participants from a variety European countries, USA and
Japan made the event all the more valuable.

I hope that the momentum of discussion is maintained until the next
workshop dealing with these issues. To this end, I would suggest that
participants are encouraged to make full use of the email discussion list
that I referred to in the workshop. The details are as follows:

*****************************
To join, send the email message:
join gesture-sign-lang-tech yourfirstname yourlastname

to the following address:
mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk

Messages can be posted by sending them to:
gesture-sign-lang-tech@mailbase.ac.uk

The list and its archive can be accessed via the WWW:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk
extensive support is provided by the Mailbase support team which make the
list particularly easy to use.

The list is at present unmoderated and there is open access for anyone to
view the membership list.

shortly after joining, new members should post a short message outlining
their interest and work, together with their webpage address if they have
one.
The discussion period scheduled at the end of the meeting was all too
short although I thought a number of interesting issues were raised.
Speaking personally, I would have liked more discussion but my level of
fatigue was rather high by Friday afternoon. I encourage all participants
to join the list and continue with the discussion started during the
meeting. In addition to the many interesting presentations, Alan
Wexelblat's lively and thought provoking keynote address provided plenty
of material.
 
******************************

Please feel free to extract material from the above for both the ZIF
report and for the workshop webpage (re: discussion list). As I am going
on vacation tomorrow, I do not have time to write about the workshop in
more detail at this moment. Also, if you wish, kick-off some discussion on
the list. I will make my own contributions after I return from my holidays
on the 8th October.

Best Regards


David
**************************************
Dr. David M. Roy
Expert
Telematics Applications for Disabled and Elderly People
DGXIII C5 3/80 
European Commission
Avenue de Beaulieu 29,
1160 Brussels

Tel: +32 2 295 2642  Fax: +32 2 299 0248
Email: David.Roy@dg13.cec.be