Evaluation of a psycholinguistically motivated timing model for animations of American sign language

ASSETS'08: The 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 129-136

  Huenerfauth, Matt ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility technology for the deaf; American sign language; Animation; Evaluation; Natural language generation

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ACCESSIBILITY TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DEAF; AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION TASKS; EVALUATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; TIMING MODELS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 62949186554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414471.1414496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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