Literature Reviews

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

• The Development of Language Processing Support for the ViSiCAST Project

  R. Elliott, J. R. W. Glauert, J. R. Kennaway, I. Marshall (2000) — Proceedings of the Fourth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '00)

  This paper from the University of East Anglia describes early work on the ViSiCAST project (Virtual Signing, Animation, Capture, Storage and Transmission), a 3-year EU-funded initiative to provide improved access to services for Deaf citizens through…

  • sign language
  • sign language avatar
  • virtual signing
  • British Sign Language
  • machine translation
  • natural language processing
  • motion capture
  • HamNoSys
  • deaf accessibility
  • XML

• Manual Evaluation of Synthesised Sign Language Avatars

  Robert Smith, Brian Nolan (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This poster paper evaluates whether adding emotional facial expressions to sign language avatars improves their comprehension and naturalness for Irish Sign Language (ISL) users. Sign languages convey emotion and prosody primarily through non-manual …

  • sign language
  • sign language avatar
  • Irish Sign Language
  • deaf
  • facial expressions
  • non-manual features
  • HamNoSys
  • SiGML
  • accessibility