Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Collecting a Motion-Capture Corpus of American Sign Language for Data-Driven Generation Research

  Pengfei Lu, Matt Huenerfauth (2010) — Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT '10)

  This workshop paper describes the first year of a multi-year project at CUNY to build a motion-capture corpus of American Sign Language (ASL) specifically intended to support data-driven ASL animation and machine-translation research. The authors arg…

  • American Sign Language
  • ASL animation
  • motion capture
  • sign language corpus
  • deaf accessibility
  • natural language processing
  • signing avatar
  • data-driven generation
  • computational linguistics
  • sign language machine translation

• Participation of High School and Undergraduate Students who are Deaf in Research on American Sign Language Animation

  Matt Huenerfauth (2010) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing, Issue 97

  This SIGACCESS newsletter article describes the educational-outreach component of a five-year NSF CAREER Award (#0746556) research project at the Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory (LATLab) at Queens College, CUNY. The scientific goal o…

  • American Sign Language
  • ASL animation
  • deaf community
  • STEM education
  • research outreach
  • tiered mentoring
  • signing avatar
  • motion capture
  • assistive technology
  • undergraduate research
  • broadening participation

• Regression Analysis of Demographic and Technology-Experience Factors Influencing Acceptance of Sign Language Animation

  Hernisa Kacorri, Matt Huenerfauth, Sarah Ebling, Kasmira Patel, Kellie Menzies, Mackenzie Willard (2017) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper investigates how deaf participants' demographic backgrounds and technology experience influence their evaluation scores when assessing sign language animation systems, revealing that participant characteristics — not just animation quality…

  • sign language avatar
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • evaluation methodology
  • regression analysis
  • ASL animation
  • demographic factors
  • research methods