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- research-articleAugust 2022
A Novel Social Interaction Assistive Device for Arab Deaf People
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Volume 21, Issue 5Article No.: 89, Pages 1–19https://doi.org/10.1145/3508374Many deaf people worldwide face problems with integrating into society and interacting with people who do not understand sign language. This can lead to isolation and difficulty in expressing feelings. In this research, our primary goal is to help deaf ...
- posterOctober 2020
Tactile Tone System: A Wearable Device to Assist Accuracy of Vocal Pitch in Cochlear Implant Users
ASSETS '20: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and AccessibilityArticle No.: 81, Pages 1–3https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3418008Cochlear implantation is an effective tool in speech perception. However, activities such as listening to music and singing remain challenging for cochlear implant (CI) users, due to inaccurate pitch recognition. In this study, we propose a method for ...
- research-articleJune 2013
Enhancing readability of web documents by text augmentation for deaf people
WIMS '13: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and SemanticsArticle No.: 30, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/2479787.2479808Deaf people have particular difficulty in understanding text-based web documents because their mother language, or sign language, is essentially visually oriented. To enhance the readability of text-based web documents for deaf people, we propose a news ...
- ArticleJuly 2012
Dubbing of videos for deaf people --- a sign language approach
ICCHP'12: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs - Volume Part IIPages 225–228https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_35Deaf people have their own language and they use the sign language to communicate. Movies are synchronized into a lot of different languages so that almost everyone is able to understand it, but sign language is always missing. This project makes a ...
- ArticleJuly 2012
Towards a visual speech learning system for the deaf by matching dynamic lip shapes
ICCHP'12: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs - Volume Part IPages 1–9https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_1In this paper we propose a visual-based speech learning framework to assist deaf persons by comparing the lip movements between a student and an E-tutor in an intelligent tutoring system. The framework utilizes lip reading technologies to determine if a ...
- research-articleMarch 2012
Using augmented reality and automatic speech recognition techniques to help deaf and hard of hearing people
VRIC '12: Proceedings of the 2012 Virtual Reality International ConferenceArticle No.: 5, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/2331714.2331720Recently, many researches show Augmented Reality (AR) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) can help people with disabilities. In this paper we implement an innovative system for helping deaf people by combining AR, ASR, and AVSR technologies. This ...
- posterOctober 2011
Improving accessibility for deaf people: an editor for computer assisted translation through virtual avatars.
ASSETS '11: The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibilityPages 253–254https://doi.org/10.1145/2049536.2049593This paper presents the ATLAS Editor for Assisted Translation (ALEAT), a novel tool for the Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) from Italian written language to Italian Sign Language (LIS) of Deaf People. The tool is a web application that has been ...
- demonstrationOctober 2011
Exploring iconographic interface in emergency for deaf
ASSETS '11: The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibilityPages 245–246https://doi.org/10.1145/2049536.2049589In this demo, we present an application for mobile phones, which can allow communication between deaf and emergency medical services using an iconographic touch interface. This application can be useful especially for deaf but also for persons without ...
- articleDecember 2010
Self-supportive virtual communities
International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC), Volume 6, Issue 1Pages 43–61https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWBC.2010.030016Web-based learning communities allow individuals to improve their skills and knowledge, while offering global distribution of participants and asynchronous participation. Although flexible and distributed, the learning process in such communities is ...
- research-articleSeptember 2010
Using mobile devices to support communication between emergency medical responders and deaf people
MobileHCI '10: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and servicesPages 7–16https://doi.org/10.1145/1851600.1851605Fast and effective communication is crucial during medical emergencies, but patients' disabilities can make it a challenging task for emergency medical responders. This paper proposes a mobile system to deal with the communication barrier between ...
- research-articleApril 2009
Generating JSL gloss messages for the deaf
i-CREATe '09: Proceedings of the 3rd International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive TechnologyArticle No.: 29, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/1592700.1592734This paper presents the experimental results of generating indirect JSL (Japanese Sign Language) messages in emergency situations for deaf people. In emergency situations as well as ordinary ones deaf people need messages in JSL, because it is their own ...
- ArticleFebruary 2005
An e-learning management system for the deaf people
AIKED'05: Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering Data BasesArticle No.: 28, Pages 1–5This paper presents a learning management system (LMS) which offers Greek Sign Language videos in correspondence to every text in the learning environment. The system is designed notably for deaf adults for the purpose of their lifelong vocational and ...
- articleDecember 2001
Recognition of gestures in Arabic sign language using neuro-fuzzy systems
Artificial Intelligence (ARTI), Volume 133, Issue 1-2Pages 117–138https://doi.org/10.1016/S0004-3702(01)00141-2Hand gestures play an important role in communication between people during their daily lives. But the extensive use of hand gestures as a mean of communication can be found in sign languages. Sign language is the basic communication method between deaf ...