This idea may not be vastly useful, but it has occured to me that when learning any form of new language or input system for anything there is no substitute for practice.

My idea is to make gloves that allow typing to be performed using standard sign language symbols for the letters,- i say letters as some of the words use big actions or ones that may be ambiguous for computer use. this system would be useful for anyone who wants to/needs to learn sign language.
-- engineer1, Mar 30 2004

Glove-based hand gesture recognition http://www-2.cs.cmu...ce/www/hmm/hmm.html
Christopher Lee, Yangsheng Xu, at CMU. [jutta, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Georgia Tech: Mobile Sign Language Recognition http://www.gvu.gate...u/ccg/projects/asl/
Thad Starner moved there from MIT. [jutta, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Alan Wexelblat, MIT on gestures http://web.media.mi...x/home-gesture.html
His thesis work was a free-form gesture recognizer (it's available as PostScript). [jutta, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Mohammed Waleed Kadous' Thesis: GRASP http://www.cse.unsw...~waleed/thesis.html
Using a PowerGlove to recognize Australian sign language (Auslan). [jutta, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Boltay Haath http;//www.boltayhaath.cjb.net
Pakistan Sign Language recognition using DataGlove and Neural Networks. [musuf, Oct 17 2004]

This is an active topic of research. Some systems use cameras, some use gloves.
-- jutta, Mar 30 2004


I linked before to a virtual keyboard that could pick up gestures as well as typing. I don't know if it would be discriminating enough to pick up sign language, but I'll see if I can find the link again.
-- DrCurry, Mar 30 2004



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