Author/Editor     Solina, Franc; Krapež, Slavko; Jaklič, Aleš; Komac, Vito
Title     Multimedia dictionary and synthesis of sign language
Type     članek
Source     Assist Technol Res Ser
Vol. and No.     Letnik 10
Publication year     2001
Volume     str. 472-6
Language     eng
Abstract     Deaf people, as a marginal community, may have severe problems in communicating with hearing people. Us ally, they have a lot of problems even with such, for hearing people simple tasks, as understanding the written language. However, deaf people are very skilled in sing the sign language, which is their native language. A sign language is a set of signs or hand gestures. A gesture in a sign language eq als to a word in a written language. Similarly, a sentence in a written language equals to a sequence of gestures in a sign language.
Descriptors     DEAFNESS
HEARING AIDS
MULTIMEDIA
SIGN LANGUAGE
USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE
DICTIONARIES