2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Kinect-Sign: Teaching Sign Language to “Listeners” through a Game
verfasst von : João Gameiro, Tiago Cardoso, Yves Rybarczyk
Erschienen in: Innovative and Creative Developments in Multimodal Interaction Systems
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Sign language is the hearing impaired form of communicating with other people, including listeners. Most cases, impaired people have learned sign language form childhood. The problem arises when a listener comes in contact with an impaired person. For instances, if a couple has a child which is impaired, the parents find a challenge to learn the sign language. In this article, a new playful approach to assist the listeners to learn sign language is proposed. This proposal is a serious game composed of two modes:
School-mode
and
Competition-mode
. The first offers a virtual school where the user learns to sign letters and the second offers an environment towards applying the learned letters. Behind the scenes, the proposal contains a sign language recognition system, based on three modules: 1 – the standardization of the Kinect depth camera data; 2 – a gesture library relying on the standardized data; and 3 – the real-time recognition of gestures. A prototype was developed – Kinect-Sign – and tested in a Portuguese Sign-Language school and on eNTERFACE’13 resulting in a joyful acceptance of the approach.