Developing successful sign language recognition, generation, and translation systems
requires expertise in a wide range of fields, including computer vision, computer graphics …

Health informatics interventions are designed to help people avoid, recover from, or cope
with disease and disability, or to improve the quality and safety of healthcare. Unfortunately …

As video conferencing (VC) has become increasingly necessary for many aspects of daily
life, many d/Deaf and hard of hearing people, particularly those who communicate via sign …

Many deaf people have significant reading problems. Written content, eg on internet pages,
is therefore not fully accessible for them. Embodied agents have the potential to …

The need to study representative users is widely accepted within the human-computer
interaction (HCI) community. While exceptions exist, and alternative populations are …

In this article we present a multichannel animation system for producing utterances signed in
French Sign Language (LSF) by a virtual character. The main challenges of such a system …

This paper reports on the development of a system that translates German train
announcements of the Swiss Federal Railways (Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, SBB) into …

To enable more websites to provide content in the form of sign language, we investigate
software to partially automate the synthesis of animations of American Sign Language …

There are many important factors in the design of evaluation studies for systems that
generate animations of American Sign Language (ASL) sentences, and techniques for …

Deaf people have serious problems to access information due to their inherent difficulties to
deal with spoken and written languages. This work tries to address this problem by …