ASL-STEM forum: Enabling sign language to grow through online collaboration

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 2075-2078

  Cavender, Anna C ^a   Otero, Daniel S ^a   Bigham, Jeffrey P ^b   Ladner, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

american sign language; deaf; forum; stem; video

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; COMPLEX TERM; COURSE MATERIAL; CRITICAL MASS; LURKERS; ONLINE COLLABORATION; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; SIGN LANGUAGE; USER STUDY; USER TYPE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; TEACHING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77953999550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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