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  • Teaching ASL Signs using Signing Avatars and Immersive Learning in Virtual Reality

    Lorna C. Quandt, Jason Lamberton, Athena S. Willis, Jianye Wang, Kaitlyn Weeks, Emily Kubicek, Melissa Malzkuhn · 2020 · Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

    This demonstration paper presents SAIL (Signing Avatars & Immersive Learning), the first ASL instructional system built for immersive virtual reality. Developed at Gallaudet University by a majority-Deaf team, SAIL uses a signing avatar — a computer-animated virtual human…

    sign language · American Sign Language · virtual reality · signing avatars · motion capture

  • Creating questionnaires that align with ASL linguistic principles and cultural practices within the Deaf community

    Rachel Boll, Shruti Mahajan, Jeanne Reis, Erin T. Solovey · 2020 · ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

    This poster paper from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and The Learning Center for the Deaf addresses a fundamental gap in HCI research methodology: most interactive computing tools, including survey and questionnaire platforms, are designed exclusively for text and written…

    deaf · American Sign Language · questionnaire design · research methods · Deaf culture

  • Accessibility for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users: Sign Language Conversational User Interfaces

    Abraham Glasser, Vaishnavi Mande, Matt Huenerfauth · 2020 · Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '20)

    This short CUI 2020 position paper (3 pages, presented at the CUI@CHI workshop) lays out the research agenda for making voice-based conversational user interfaces (CUIs) — Alexa, Google Assistant, and similar personal assistant devices — accessible to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing…

    deaf and hard of hearing · sign language · conversational user interfaces · personal assistants · american sign language

  • Empirical Investigation of Users' Preferred Timing Parameters for American Sign Language Animations

    Sedeeq Al-khazraji, Becca Dingman, Matt Huenerfauth · 2020 · Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '20)

    This CHI 2020 Late-Breaking Work (7 pages) investigates a narrow but consequential HCI question: what timing values should be used when generating American Sign Language (ASL) animations from a script, so that Deaf viewers find them comfortable to watch? ASL is a primary…

    american sign language · sign language animation · signing avatar · deaf and hard of hearing · web accessibility

  • Sign Language Interfaces: Discussing the Field's Biggest Challenges

    Danielle Bragg, Meredith Ringel Morris, Christian Vogler, Raja Kushalnagar, Matt Huenerfauth, Hernisa Kacorri · 2020 · Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '20)

    This CHI 2020 Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting paper (5 pages) is an organising document rather than a conventional research paper. It convenes HCI and accessibility researchers working on sign-language interfaces around the five calls-to-action laid out in Bragg et al.’s…

    sign language · deaf and hard of hearing · deaf culture · american sign language · research methodology

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