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ASSISTIVE
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Wearable Computer Based American Sign Language Recognizer
Modern wearable computer designs package workstation level performance in systems small enough to be worn as clothing. These machines enable technology to be brought where it is n...
Thad Starner, Joshua Weaver, Alex Pentland
HCI
2009
13 years 3 months ago
A Similarity Measure for Vision-Based Sign Recognition
When we encounter an English word that we do not understand, we can look it up in a dictionary. However, when an American Sign Language (ASL) user encounters an unknown sign, looki...
Haijing Wang, Alexandra Stefan, Vassilis Athitsos
CGIM
2003
13 years 6 months ago
iSign: Making the Benefits of Reading Aloud Accessible to Families with Deaf Children
In this paper, we describe an application that helps hearing-impaired students learn to read and form words by translating speech into video clips of American Sign Language (ASL)....
T. Scarlatos, Lori L. Scarlatos, F. Gallarotti
ASSISTIVE
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Automatic Translation from Japanese into Japanese Sign Language
In this paper, wepresent a prototype MTsystem named SYUWANwhich can translate Japanese into Japanesesign language. Oneof the most important problemsin this translation is that the...
Masaaki Tokuda, Manabu Okumura
ASSETS
2000
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
An intelligent tutoring system for deaf learners of written English
This paper describes progress toward a prototype implementation of a tool which aims to improve literacy in deaf high school and college students who are native (or near native) s...
Lisa N. Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy, Christopher A....