MobileASL: Intelligibility of sign language video over mobile phones

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 93-105

  Cavender, Anna ^a   Vanam, Rahul ^a   Barney, Dane K ^a   Ladner, Richard E ^a   Riskin, Eve A ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

American Sign Language (ASL); deaf community; eye tracking; mobile telephone use; Video compression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER; DISABLED PERSON; EYE MOVEMENT; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF HELP; SIGN LANGUAGE; VIDEORECORDING;

CELLULAR PHONE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; DATA COMPRESSION; DEAFNESS; DISABLED PERSONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SIGN LANGUAGE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 44449104319     PISSN: 17483107     EISSN: 17483115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17483100701343475     Document Type: Article

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