Motion Research Direction
Kinesema’s language parser is in private development. Its proposed language representations remain review required and are not approved motion instructions. The public open-hand study on kinesema.org is a separate visual form experiment, not a parser-driven signing avatar.
The candidate gloss must not be treated as a motion instruction. It has not been accepted as translation, expanded into a reviewed sign plan, or approved for animation.
Why Motion Is a Separate Layer
Visible signing involves more than placing signs in sequence. Movement may depend on hand configuration, orientation, location, path, direction, timing, transitions, signing space, facial expression, gaze, and body position.
A presentation system can make these decisions look fluent even when their language basis is uncertain. Kinesema therefore separates language analysis, sign planning, motion planning, rendering, and review instead of allowing an avatar to conceal the boundaries between them.
Prerequisites for Motion Work
Before a result can enter a future motion layer, Kinesema would need:
- a sufficiently supported language representation;
- an exact record of which decisions were reviewed and by whom;
- a sign plan that distinguishes accepted information from placeholders;
- explicit handling of references, signing space, and non-manual information;
- a closed input contract for the motion layer; and
- refusal behavior when required information is missing or unresolved.
The current candidate gloss does not satisfy these prerequisites by itself.
Possible Motion Representation
A future motion plan may need to describe several kinds of information without collapsing them into one animation command:
- hand pose and palm orientation;
- dominant and non-dominant hand roles;
- start and end locations;
- movement path, direction, repetition, and hold;
- timing and transitions;
- references established in signing space;
- facial, head, gaze, body, or mouth-pattern requirements; and
- uncertainty, provenance, and review state.
These are candidate representation areas, not a finished Kinesema schema or a claim that every signed language uses one universal motion model.
Inspectable Planning
An inspectable motion system should preserve the path from an accepted language decision to a proposed movement. A reviewer should be able to determine:
- which sign-plan element requested the movement;
- which values came from reviewed evidence;
- which values were generated, inferred, or inserted as placeholders;
- which coordinate frame, timing basis, and unit conventions apply;
- which decisions remain uncertain; and
- whether the result is blocked from presentation.
The trace must not invent causality or linguistic authority merely because two records are connected. Provenance explains where a value came from; it does not prove that the value is correct.
Rendering Is Not Validation
An avatar or animation engine would consume a motion plan and produce a visual result. Smooth playback could help inspect transitions and spatial behavior, but it would not validate the underlying language, motion, naturalness, or cultural appropriateness.
Kinesema should keep renderer concerns—such as interpolation, collision, framing, and playback—separate from linguistic and motion authority. A rendering improvement must not silently change an accepted sign or movement decision.
Review Boundary
Future motion review may require different kinds of judgment: technical checks for schema and geometry, animation review for physical behavior, accessibility review for the inspection interface, and qualified human review for linguistic or community-sensitive decisions.
One review does not substitute for the others. The Review Architecture should preserve their separate outcomes and prevent an attractive visual result from being treated as approved signing.
Conditions for a Public Motion Prototype
A public motion prototype should remain blocked until Kinesema can identify:
- the exact reviewed input it consumes;
- the bounded motion contract it implements;
- the test and provenance evidence behind each visible stage;
- the unavailable or uncertain cases it refuses;
- the qualified review required for the presented material; and
- an accessible way to inspect the result without relying only on animation.
The Parser Research Boundary documents the current starting point. The Kinesema Roadmap keeps motion after the language and review foundations it depends on.