9th Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technologies (SLTAT 2025)

TL;DR

The 2025 SLTAT workshop showcases recent advances in sign language translation, avatar technologies, and related areas like recognition, data collection, ethics, and usability, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration.

Contribution

This edition highlights the integration of avatar technologies with sign language translation and broadens focus to include data analysis, ethics, and usability in deaf communication research.

Findings

Increased submissions on sign language recognition.

Advances in avatar-based communication tools.

Emphasis on ethics and usability in sign language tech.

Abstract

The Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT) workshops continue a series of gatherings to share recent advances in improving deaf / human communication through non-invasive means. This 2025 edition, the 9th since its first appearance in 2011, is hosted by the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), giving the opportunity for contamination between two research communities, using digital humans as either virtual interpreters or as interactive conversational agents. As presented in this summary paper, SLTAT sees contributions beyond avatar technologies, with a consistent number of submissions on sign language recognition, and other work on data collection, data analysis, tools, ethics, usability, and affective computing.