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Centre for Next Generation Localisation,
School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland.
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Current Appointments

Ph.D researcher at Dublin City University (DCU) since March 2009. Currently Researching synthetic signing in Avatars for Sign language Machine translation at The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), DCU.  I am also affiliated to the Clarity-centre, DCU.

Assistant Lecturer at Institute of technology Blanchardstown (ITB) since October 2009. School of Informatics & Engineering.

Previous Appointment 

Multimedia/IT project manager at Irish Deaf Society (IDS) July 2006 - January 2009 Irish Deaf Society 30 Blessington st Dublin 7.

Research Interests 

SLMT, MT, Sign language linguistics, Sign language notation/transcription methods, sign language synthesis, sign language recognition, synthetic signing, humanoid/Avatar animation, attitude and emotion in Avatar animation, Other non-manual features (NMF's) in sign language.

Research Objectives:
To introduce more realism to synthesized sign language avatars through various non-manual features (NMFs). Research into synthesising sign languages is still in the early stages of development. Most existing systems use animated agents (Avatars) to synthesise sign language in real-time. This task has proved difficult because the nuance of natural human movement has proved too complex to simulate authentically. State-of-the-art sign language synthesis can be compared to the somewhat robotic and artificial nature of early speech synthesis output.