Evaluation of a psycholinguistically motivated timing model for animations of american sign language

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Evaluation of a psycholinguistically motivated timing model for animations of american sign language

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ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility archive
Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility table of contents

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

SESSION: Accessibility studies table of contents

Pages 129-136

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-59593-976-0

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Matt Huenerfauth

The City University of New York, Queens College, Flushing, NY, USA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGACCESS: ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Using results in the psycholinguistics literature on the speed and timing of American Sign Language (ASL), we built algorithms to calculate the time-duration of signs and the location/length of pauses during an ASL animation. We conducted a study in which native ASL signers evaluated the ASL animations processed by our algorithms, and we found that: (1) adding linguistically motivated pauses and variations in sign-durations improved signers' performance on a comprehension task and (2) these animations were rated as more understandable by ASL signers.

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