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