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  • Using Networked Multimedia to Improve Educational Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

    Anna C. Cavender · 2007 · SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

    This paper proposes a networked multimedia platform to address the specific challenges deaf and hard of hearing students face in mainstream university classrooms. The author identifies three core problems. First, isolation: as more deaf students enter mainstream universities,…

    deaf and hard of hearing · higher education · sign language · captioning · remote interpreting

  • Improving the Efficacy of Automated Sign Language Practice Tools

    Helene Brashear · 2007 · SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

    This paper describes dissertation research on improving automatic sign language recognition for CopyCat, an interactive computer game that helps young deaf children practice American Sign Language (ASL). The work addresses a critical need: 90% of deaf children are born to…

    sign language · sign language detection · gesture-based interaction · computer vision · machine learning

  • Variable frame rate for low power mobile sign language communication

    Neva Cherniavsky, Anna C. Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Eve A. Riskin · 2007 · Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07)

    This paper from the University of Washington MobileASL team — Neva Cherniavsky, Anna Cavender, Richard Ladner, and Eve Riskin — addresses a then-emerging problem: enabling Deaf people in the United States to hold real-time American Sign Language conversations over the cellular…

    American Sign Language · sign language · fingerspelling · Deaf community · video phone

  • Design and Evaluation of an American Sign Language Generator

    Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhao, Erdan Gu, Jan Allbeck · 2007 · Proceedings of the Workshop on Embodied Language Processing (EmbodiedNLP 2007)

    Huenerfauth, Zhao, Gu, and Allbeck (2007) describe the implementation and user evaluation of a prototype system for generating animations of American Sign Language (ASL) classifier predicates — spatially complex hand movements that trace the location, motion, shape, or contour…

    ASL · American Sign Language · deaf accessibility · sign language · sign language animation

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