Promoting Better Deaf/Hearing Communication Through an Improved Interaction Design for Fingerspelling Practice

Wolfe, Rosalee; McDonald, John C.; Toro, Jorge; Baowidan, Souad; Moncrief, Robyn; Schnepp, Jerry

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20678-3_48

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“…The previous Fingerspelling Tutor software was built, as described in [ 6 ] with the participation of interpreter training students, and its continued development has been driven by feedback from this target user group [ 16 ]. The current effort has also been driven by requests from users of the prior software, who indicated that wider platform support, more realism in the avatar’s motion and increased interactivity with the avatar display.…”

Section: Limitations Of Current Practice Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enabling Real-Time 3D Display of Lifelike Fingerspelling in a Web App

Montgomery

McDonald

Gong

et al. 2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Fingerspelling receptive skills remain among the most difficult aspects of sign language for hearing people to learn due to the lack of access to practice tools that reproduce the natural motion of human signing. This problem has been exacerbated in recent years by the move from desktop to mobile technologies which has rendered prior software platforms less accessible to general users. This paper explores a web-enabled 3D rendering architecture that enables real-time fingerspelling on a human avatar that can address these issues. In addition it is capable of producing more realistic motion than prior efforts that were video-based and provides greater interactivity and customization that will support further enhancements to self-practice tools for fingerspelling reception.

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Section: Limitations Of Current Practice Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enabling Real-Time 3D Display of Lifelike Fingerspelling in a Web App

Montgomery

McDonald

Gong

et al. 2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…It is rather a convention among natural signers sharing a specific natural space with some given oral language, which allows them to visualize the alphabetic characters of the language of their environment. In this respect, fingerspelled alphabets become a supportive mechanism of significant value for the intercultural deaf-oral communication [29]. As regards the fingerspelling keyboard facility under discussion, the user interface provides help in GSL in the form of a video tooltip to facilitate user interaction with the specific service.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The composition of new synthetic sign phrases is achieved by selecting the desired phrase components from a list of available, appropriately annotated lexical items [13], [14]. The HamNoSys notation system [12], [13] has been used for the phonological annotation of sign lemmas, along with features for the non-manual activity present in sign formation, while the University of East Anglia (UEA) avatar engine [29] has been used to perform signing. End-users interact with the system via a simple search-and-match interface to compose their desired phrases.…”

Section: Dynamic Sign Synthesis Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sign Language Technologies and the Critical Role of SL Resources in View of Future Internet Accessibility Services

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In this paper, we touch upon the requirement for accessibility via Sign Language as regards dynamic composition and exchange of new content in the context of natural language-based human interaction, and also the accessibility of web services and electronic content in written text by deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. In this framework, one key issue remains the option for composition of signed "text", along with the ability for the reuse of pre-existing signed "text" by exploiting basic editing facilities similar to those available for written text that serve vocal language representation. An equally critical related issue is accessibility of vocal language text by born or early deaf signers, as well as the use of web-based facilities via Sign Language-supported interfaces, taking into account that the majority of native signers present limited reading skills. It is, thus, demonstrated how Sign Language technologies and resources may be integrated in human-centered applications, enabling web services and content accessibility in the education and an everyday communication context, in order to facilitate integration of signer populations in a societal environment that is strongly defined by smart life style conditions. This potential is also demonstrated by end-user-evaluation results.

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“…According to [2], it is term used to describe the language used by deaf people in which both manual signs and finger spelling are employed. But experts in the field of deaf education such as [2][3] have modified and invented different types of sign language which used to be traditional in nature being challenged by scientific and technological development in the few decades to the end of the 20 th Century and since the beginning of the 21 st Century. This new development has brought changes into all aspect of communication in educational system of the hearing impaired.…”

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Effects of Information and Communication Technology for Two Ways Communication on Students With Hard of Hearing in Otana Integrated School, Jos, Plateau State

Kutlat¹,

Daze²,

Dafom³

2021

IJEAST

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This paper was designed to find out the effects of information and communication technology for two-way communication on students with hearing impairment in Otana Integrated School. The purpose of the study was to determine the availability of ICT facilities for two-way communication among students with hearing impairment; determine the main ICT used for two 0way communication and determine the challenges faced by students in the use of ICT facilities in Otana Integrated School. Descriptive research design was used for the study. The population of the study consist of fifteen (15) students with hearing impairment. A researcher made questionnaire comprising of fifteen items was used to generate data for the study. Three research questions and one hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Simple percentage and mean were used to analyze the data collected from the study while Analysis of Variance ANONA was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed that there is a positive correlation between the use of ICT and academic performance of students with hearing impairment in school subjects.The major challenges are those of electricity supply and the cost of maintaining the facilities.It was recommended that ICT facilities, internet connection and power supply should be make available and functional for students’ two-way communication.

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Promoting Better Deaf/Hearing Communication Through an Improved Interaction Design for Fingerspelling Practice

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Enabling Real-Time 3D Display of Lifelike Fingerspelling in a Web App

Enabling Real-Time 3D Display of Lifelike Fingerspelling in a Web App

Sign Language Technologies and the Critical Role of SL Resources in View of Future Internet Accessibility Services

Effects of Information and Communication Technology for Two Ways Communication on Students With Hard of Hearing in Otana Integrated School, Jos, Plateau State

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