RE: Interesting new assistive tech

There was a similar project a few years ago at Latrobe university to read a
glove... (there are different sign alphabets in different languages)

Actually there are a number of intersting projects in this area - I think the
most interesting are the ones that create signing avatars. The basic problem
is that there is no written form of sign languages (except things like signed
english - where english words are represented by sign language - not the same
thing, and I think not even internationalised across english-speaking
countries - the sign alphabets and languages used in Australia are very
different, like greek and french are different) so each project needs to work
on a way of solving that.

cheers

Charles

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:

  Sorry



  It just takes finger spelling movements and displays them as letters.
  So it lets you spell out words.      It doesn't detect or translate ASL.




  Could be very nifty as a keyboardless keyboard though for those who know
  finger-spelling and can communicate well by spelling out words.

  Could also be used for data entry.



  Gregg







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  -----Original Message-----
  From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On
  Behalf Of Cynthia Shelly
  Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:55 PM
  To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
  Subject: Interesting new assistive tech



  A New York Times article about a new device that translates ASL into
  text.  It's not in production yet (a high school kid invented it), but
  sounds really cool.



  Here's the article.  Requires a free subscription to NYT online.

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/technology/circuits/07GLOV.html





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