A gesturebased American sign language game for deaf children

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1589-1592

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

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

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

Author keywords

ASL; Children; Computer aided language learning; Computer games; Deaf; Design; Wizard of Oz method

Indexed keywords

ASL; CHILDREN; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING; COMPUTER GAME; DEAF; WIZARD OF OZ;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84869109651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1056973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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