From: University of Aberdeen
- 09/04/2012
By: Jennifer Phillips
University of Aberdeen researchers have developed
software that enables people with impaired speech and mobility to assign simple
gestures to actions they would like to be performed in their home. Wireless
communication technologies are used to link the software to devices in the
home. "For some people hand gestures are the only way of interacting with
the environment around them because of speech impairments and reduced mobility,
as a result of illness or an accident," says Aberdeen lecturer Ernesto
Compatangelo. The technology is based on the Portable Sign Language Translator
(PSLT), which helps users translate sign language into text. "In devising
the PSLT, we wanted to create software that enables independent living not only
by addressing the individualized communication needs of signers, but also their
ambient control needs," Compatangelo says. People using PSLT sign into a
standard camera integrated into a laptop, netbook, smartphone, or other
portable device. Their signs are immediately converted into text, which can be
read by the person they are conversing with. "Essentially any gesture can
be assigned to any given word," Compatangelo notes.
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Portable Sign Language Translator
Ernesto Compatangelo
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