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This study makes use of 2 hours of dyadic conversational data from the Swedish Sign Language Corpus, 

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in order to answer two main research questions.

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Using the computer vision model <i>Mediapipe</i> as a tool for analyzing sign language data directly from video, is it possible to:

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1. Determine who is signing out of the two signers in a dyad?
2. Determine which of each signer's two hands is their dominant one overall?

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The methodology involves looking at the distance traveled by the signers' hands as well as the height of the hands in signing space.

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The results show that there is a high degree of accuracy in determining the main signer in different segments of conversation. 

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Determining the signers' hand dominance works best if one first classifies segments into active signing sequences only, 

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to remove noise from backchanneling, fidgeting and grooming.