Literature Reviews

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

• American Sign Language Recognition in Game Development for Deaf Children

  Helene Brashear, Valerie Henderson, Kwang-Hyun Park, Harley Hamilton, Seungyon Lee, Thad Starner (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper presents CopyCat, an educational computer game that uses gesture recognition technology to help young deaf children (ages 6-11) practice American Sign Language (ASL) skills. The project addresses a critical language development challenge: …

  • deaf education
  • sign language recognition
  • ASL
  • gesture recognition
  • computer vision
  • educational games
  • hidden Markov models
  • children
  • language acquisition

• Sign Transition Modeling and a Scalable Solution to Continuous Sign Language Recognition for Real-World Applications

  Kehuang Li, Zhengyu Zhou, Chin-Hui Lee (2016) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents a scalable framework for continuous sign language recognition (SLR) designed to work in real-world conditions using affordable hardware. The researchers address a fundamental challenge in SLR: modeling the transitions between sign…

  • sign language recognition
  • hidden Markov models
  • machine learning
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • wearable technology
  • gesture recognition
  • assistive technology