Literature Reviews

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

• Design and Evaluation of an American Sign Language Generator

  Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhao, Erdan Gu, Jan Allbeck (2007) — Proceedings of the Workshop on Embodied Language Processing (EmbodiedNLP 2007)

  Huenerfauth, Zhao, Gu, and Allbeck (2007) describe the implementation and user evaluation of a prototype system for generating animations of American Sign Language (ASL) classifier predicates — spatially complex hand movements that trace the location…

  • ASL
  • American Sign Language
  • deaf accessibility
  • sign language
  • sign language animation
  • sign language generation
  • signing avatar
  • virtual human
  • animation
  • classifier predicates
  • non-manual markers
  • eye gaze
  • Signed English
  • transliteration
  • inverse kinematics
  • user-based evaluation
  • evaluation methodology
  • Deaf community
  • computational linguistics
  • natural language generation

• Spatial and Temporal Pyramids for Grammatical Expression Recognition of American Sign Language

  Nicholas Michael, Dimitris Metaxas, Carol Neidle (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This paper presents a novel computer vision framework for recognizing grammatical facial expressions and head gestures in American Sign Language (ASL) video. While most sign language recognition research has focused on manual components (hand shapes …

  • sign language recognition
  • American Sign Language
  • non-manual markers
  • computer vision
  • facial expression recognition
  • machine learning
  • deaf accessibility