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• Reimagining Sign Language Technologies: Analyzing Translation Work of Chinese Deaf Online Content Creators

  Xinru Tang, Anne Marie Piper · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Tang and Piper investigate the translation practices of thirteen deaf Chinese online content creators who produce sign language videos for Kuaishou, Bilibili, Douyin, WeChat, and Xiaohongshu, reaching audiences that range from thousands to nearly a quarter million followers. The…

  sign language · deaf accessibility · sign language translation · content creators · translanguaging

• ArtfulSign: A Closed-Loop, Semantics-Grounded Mobile System for Learning Chinese Sign Language

  Yuan Zhao, Yueran Wang, Chenglong Tan, Siyang Tong, Dengfeng Yao, Wei Zhen · 2026 · Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26)

  ArtfulSign is a mobile iOS application that reframes Chinese Sign Language (CSL) learning as an embodied skill practiced through short closed-loop interaction cycles rather than passive video consumption. The authors argue that most existing sign language learning tools - video…

  Chinese Sign Language · sign language learning · embodied learning · closed-loop interaction · semantic grounding

• Isolated Sign Language Recognition with Grassmann Covariance Matrices

  Hanjie Wang, Xiujuan Chai, Xiaopeng Hong, Guoying Zhao, Xilin Chen · 2016 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper proposes a novel method for isolated sign language recognition using Grassmann Covariance Matrices (GCM) to fuse multimodal features captured by Microsoft Kinect. With 360 million people worldwide affected by hearing loss—21 million in China alone—automatic sign…

  sign language recognition · Chinese sign language · computer vision · machine learning · deaf and hard of hearing

• Web-based Chinese sign language broadcasting system

  Dengfeng Yao, Yunfeng Qiu, Harry Huang · 2009 · Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)

  This paper presents a web-based Chinese Sign Language (CSL) Broadcasting System that automatically translates text on web pages into animated 3D sign language gestures displayed through a browser plugin. The system addresses an often-overlooked accessibility barrier: while web…

  sign language · deaf accessibility · sign language synthesis · 3D animation · Chinese Sign Language

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