Literature Reviews

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

• A Gesture Recognition Architecture for Sign Language

  Annelies Braffort (1996) — Proceedings of the Second Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '96)

  This paper from LIMSI-CNRS in France presents a gesture recognition architecture specifically designed for sign languages, grounded in a detailed linguistic analysis of French Sign Language (LSF). The key insight is that sign languages differ fundame…

  • sign language
  • gesture recognition
  • French Sign Language
  • data glove
  • sign language recognition
  • machine learning
  • Hidden Markov Model
  • deaf accessibility
  • linguistics

• Multimedia dictionary of American Sign Language

  Sherman Wilcox, Joanne Scheibman, Doug Wood, Dennis Cokely, William C. Stokoe (1994) — Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This paper describes the Multimedia Dictionary of American Sign Language (MM-DASL), a Macintosh application functioning as a bilingual ASL-English dictionary that presents signs in full-motion digital video using Apple's QuickTime technology. The pro…

  • sign language
  • deaf accessibility
  • multimedia
  • dictionary
  • American Sign Language
  • digital video
  • linguistics
  • deaf culture
  • literacy