Literature Reviews

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

• Assessing the Deaf User Perspective on Sign Language Avatars

  Michael Kipp, Quan Nguyen, Alexis Heloir, Silke Matthes (2011) — Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

  This paper investigates Deaf community attitudes toward sign language avatars — virtual characters that perform sign language — through focus groups and a large-scale online study. Sign language avatars have the potential to make written content acce…

  • deaf
  • sign language avatar
  • German Sign Language
  • user acceptance
  • focus groups
  • participatory design
  • sign language synthesis
  • nonmanual features
  • accessibility