Resource production of written forms of Sign Languages by a user-centered editor, SWift (SignWriting improved fast transcriber)
Fabrizio Borgia (UPS), Claudia S. Bianchini (FORELLIS), Patrice Dalle, (UPS), Maria de Marsico

TL;DR
SWift is an innovative, user-centered SignWriting editor that facilitates fast, intuitive, and universal sign language transcription, aiming to improve digital accessibility and support linguistic research.
Contribution
It introduces a modular, automated SignWriting editor tailored for deaf users, enhancing ease of use and adaptability across Sign Languages.
Findings
Enables fast sign composition using glyphs
Supports linguistic research on Sign Languages
Designed for high usability and accessibility
Abstract
The SignWriting improved fast transcriber (SWift), presented in this paper, is an advanced editor for computer-aided writing and transcribing of any Sign Language (SL) using SignWriting (SW). The application is an editor which allows composing and saving desired signs using the SW elementary components, called "glyphs". These make up a sort of alphabet, which does not depend on the national Sign Language and which codes the basic components of any sign. The user is guided through a fully-automated procedure, making the composition process fast and intuitive. SWift pursues the goal of helping to break down the "electronic barriers" that keep deaf people away from the web, and at the same time to support linguistic research about Sign Languages features. For this reason it has been designed with a special attention to deaf user needs, and to general usability issues. The editor has been…
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