Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
13 results found tagged motion capture.
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From Performers to Creators: Understanding Retired Women's Perceptions of Technology-Enhanced Dance Performance
Zheng and colleagues study how interactive-dance and generative-AI technologies can be designed around the needs of retired women dancers in China — a population estimated at over 100 million, for whom community dance is a major post-retirement pract…
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Collecting a Motion-Capture Corpus of American Sign Language for Data-Driven Generation Research
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…
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Participation of High School and Undergraduate Students who are Deaf in Research on American Sign Language Animation
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…
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A Parametric Approach to Sign Language Synthesis
This paper describes a parametric approach to synthesizing American Sign Language (ASL) using a commercially available human avatar (UGS Jack) driven by kinematic parameters. The system addresses the fundamental challenge that signed and spoken langu…
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TESSA, a System to Aid Communication with Deaf People
This paper describes TESSA (Text and Sign Support Assistant), an experimental system developed collaboratively by the University of East Anglia, the Royal National Institute for Deaf People, and Televirtual Ltd. to facilitate communication between de…
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The Development of Language Processing Support for the ViSiCAST Project
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…
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Accessible Motion-Capture Glove Calibration Protocol for Recording Sign Language Data from Deaf Subjects
This paper addresses a critical bottleneck in sign language technology research: the calibration of motion-capture gloves used to record handshape data from deaf signers. Motion-capture gloves like the CyberGlove contain sensors that measure finger j…
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Accurate and Accessible Motion-Capture Glove Calibration for Sign Language Data Collection
This paper addresses a critical bottleneck in sign language technology research: the calibration of motion-capture gloves used to record hand movements for ASL animation and recognition systems. Motion-capture data enables the development of sign lan…
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Towards Fully Automated Motion Capture of Signs -- Development and Evaluation of a Key Word Signing Avatar
This research develops a cost-effective method for capturing sign language motion to animate a signing avatar for the Tivoli project—a game-based learning environment teaching Key Word Signing (KWS) to children with communication disabilities includi…
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Modeling the Speed and Timing of American Sign Language to Generate Realistic Animations
This paper addresses the challenge of generating realistic computer animations of American Sign Language (ASL) by automatically modeling three critical timing parameters: where prosodic pauses should be inserted, how long those pauses should last, an…