Teaching communication skills to hearing-impaired children

Alonso, Fernando; Jiménez, Antonio; Fuertes, José L.; Montes, César

doi:10.1109/93.482296

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“…One of the first literatures that discussed the feasibility of VR-assisted learning for hearing impaired children was the article by Alonso et al in 1995 [14]. It discussed several multimedia technologies and frameworks that could improve the communication skills of hearing impaired children.…”

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Assistive Learning for Hearing Impaired College Students using Mixed Reality: A Pilot Study

Luo

Han

Liu

et al. 2012

2012 International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization

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High quality college education for hearing impaired students is a challenging task. The most common practices nowadays intensively engage specially trained instructors, inclass and after-class tutors, as well as accessible infrastructure such as speech-to-text services. Such approaches require significant manpower investments of educators, staff and volunteers, yet are still highly susceptible to quality control and wide deployment issues. With proven records in education, mixed reality has the potential to serve as a useful assistive learning technology for hearing impaired college students. However, the fundamental technical and theoretical questions for this proposed endeavor remain largely unanswered, which motivated us to conduct this pilot study to explore the feasibilities. We designed and implemented a mixed reality system that simulated in-class assistive learning, and tested it at China's largest hearing impaired higher education institute. 15 hearing impaired college students took part in the experiments and studied a subject that is not part of their regular curriculum. Results showed that the mixed reality techniques were effective for in-class assisting, with moderate side effects. As the first step, this study validated the hypothesis that mixed reality can be used as an assistive learning technology for hearing impaired college students. It also opened the avenue to our planned next phases of mixed reality research for this purpose.

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Assistive Learning for Hearing Impaired College Students using Mixed Reality: A Pilot Study

Luo

Han

Liu

et al. 2012

2012 International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization

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“…Mehida (Alonso et al 1995) is an intelligent multimedia system for deaf or hearing-impaired children designed to assist them in acquiring and developing communication skills. It covers the following types of communicationfinger spelling (representing the letters of the alphabet using the fingers), gestures or sign languages, lip reading (understanding spoken language through observing lip motion), and voice recognition.…”

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Various modelling aspects of tutoring systems for people with auditory disabilities

Baloian

Luther

2003

Informatics and the Digital Society

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Following a survey of the existing tutoring systems for hearing impaired people the paper describes common aspects of modelling the real world when creating educational software. This involves testing and evaluating cognitive tasks with people who dispose of reduced auditory cues. To validate our concepts we used the multimedia learning system known as Whisper. We developed Whisper in 1997 and it has been evaluated extensively in special schools for the hearing impaired. Members of all the leading German rehabilitation centres have assisted in this evaluation process. Whisper implements an interactive educational system to help hearing-impaired people recognise speech errors.

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“…As speech processing technology developed in the 1980s, researchers attempted to integrate speech processing technology into the AAC system in order to enable deaf individual's control over the technology. Multimedia technology has recently also been applied to the AAC system, making it increasingly user-friendly [3]. Solina [4] also developed a dynamic signlanguage synthesis system by concatenating the signlanguage video clips at two cut points according to a DIFF function, which considers the relations of palm locations between two concatenated video clips.…”

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Movement Epenthesis Generation for Sign Language Synthesis Using NURBS Function

Chuang

Chen

2006

TENCON 2006 - 2006 IEEE Region 10 Conference

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This study proposes an approach to the generation of video-based movement epenthesis for sign language, and concentrates on a spatial interpolation approach using a NonUniform Rational B-spline (NURBS) function to produce a smooth interpolation curve. To generate movement epenthesis, the beginning and end "cut points" are determined based on the concatenation cost, which is a linear combination of the distance, smoothness and image distortion costs. An image component overlapping procedure is also employed to yield a smooth sign video output. To evaluate the proposed approach, a set of sign video databases is collected and preprocessed with image calibration, content annotation and principle component analysis (PCA). Evaluation results demonstrate that the synthesized trajectory is very close to the original trajectory. Moreover, The evaluation results also demonstrate the stability and feasibility of the proposed approach.

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Teaching communication skills to hearing-impaired children

Cited by 21 publications

References 8 publications

Assistive Learning for Hearing Impaired College Students using Mixed Reality: A Pilot Study

Assistive Learning for Hearing Impaired College Students using Mixed Reality: A Pilot Study

Various modelling aspects of tutoring systems for people with auditory disabilities

Movement Epenthesis Generation for Sign Language Synthesis Using NURBS Function

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