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American Sign Language: The Phonological Base
Sign Language Studies, 1989This paper has the ambitious goal of outlining the phonological structures and processes we have analyzed in American Sign Language (ASL). In order to do this we have divided the paper into five parts. In section 1 we detail the types of sequential phenomena found in the production of individual signs, allowing us to argue that ASL signs are ...
Scott K. Liddell, Robert E. Johnson
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American Sign Language Interpreter
2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education, 2012There is currently an abundance of software in the market that is used to help teach people sign language. This software is very effective; however it is very difficult to know if you are making correct hand gestures. It is quite tedious to learn from the software hence making them less user friendly.
Kunal Kadam +3 more
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American sign language of the web
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2004The development of non-western character encodings has empowered linguistic communities all over the world to create their own on-line Webs. However, in the case of sign languages, which convey meaning by gestures moving in time and space, the static and textual nature of the WWW medium has, until now, continued to prevent the development of on-line ...
Deborah I. Fels +4 more
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Towards an American Sign Language Interface
Artificial Intelligence Review, 1994In this paper, we present two major parts of an interface for American Sign Language (ASL) to computer applications currently under work; a hand tracker and an ASL-parser. The hand tracker extracts information about handshape, position and motion from image sequences.
Brigitte Dorner, Eli Hagen
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Special Services in the Schools, 1995
ABSTRACT Recent legislation has opened the door for the instruction of American Sign Language (ASL) in public schools and/or at the college/university level for foreign or second language credit. Fourteen states have passed this unique language legislation. This article provides a current example of this type of legislation and addresses the impact and
J. Laurence Hayes, Karen L. Dilka
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ABSTRACT Recent legislation has opened the door for the instruction of American Sign Language (ASL) in public schools and/or at the college/university level for foreign or second language credit. Fourteen states have passed this unique language legislation. This article provides a current example of this type of legislation and addresses the impact and
J. Laurence Hayes, Karen L. Dilka
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American sign language recognition with the kinect
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces, 2011We investigate the potential of the Kinect depth-mapping camera for sign language recognition and verification for educational games for deaf children. We compare a prototype Kinect-based system to our current CopyCat system which uses colored gloves and embedded accelerometers to track children's hand movements.
Zahoor Zafrulla +4 more
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Interactive American Sign Language dictionary
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Sketches on - SIGGRAPH '04, 2004An Interactive American Sign Language (ASL) to English dictionary, the first to the best of our knowledge, is presented in this work. By means of a novel gestural interface users input the unknown sign and get the equivalent English word in an interactive way.
Jose L. Hernandez-Rebollar +1 more
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American Sign Language in Education of the Deaf
American Annals of the Deaf, 1986American Sign Language is the natural language of deaf individuals. Ameslan should be an integral part of every Total Communication program for the deaf. Through ASL the deaf child can develop into a self-sufficient and proud individual. Ameslan also contributes to the preservation of the deaf community, its heritage, and its culture.
A H, Clements, H T, Prickett
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Multimedia dictionary of American Sign Language
Proceedings of the first annual ACM conference on Assistive technologies - Assets '94, 1994The Multimedia Dictionary of American Sign Language (MM-DASL) is a Macintosh application designed to function as a bilingual (ASL-English) dictionary. It presents ASL signs in full-motion digital video using Apple's QuickTime technology. Major functions of the application include the capability to search for ASL signs by entering English words; the ...
Sherman Wilcox +4 more
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The Duration of Syllables in American Sign Language
Language and Speech, 1986Data are presented for the duration of syllables in American Sign Language and for movement and hold components of those syllables. Measurements from 3072 syllables taken from four different samples of signing resulted in a grand mean of 293.7 msec. The different signing samples reflected different degrees of naturalness, and the means for each sample ...
R B, Wilbur, S B, Nolen
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