Development of an American Sign Language game for deaf children

Proceedings of: Interaction Design and Children 2005, IDC 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 70-79

  Henderson, Valerie ^a   Lee, Seungyon ^a   Brashear, Helene ^a   Hamilton, Harley ^b   Starner, Thad ^a   Hamilton, Steven ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Atlanta Area School for the Deaf   (United States)

Author keywords

ASL; Children; Computer games; Deaf; Gesture recognition; Language acquisition; Wizard of Oz method

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; ASL; COMPUTER GAME; GAME DESIGN; ITERATIVE DESIGN; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; WIZARD OF OZ;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; LINGUISTICS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 41149099638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1109540.1109550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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