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ISLHelper: A web based helper plugin for Indian Sign Language

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Asian CHI '21: Proceedings of the Asian CHI Symposium 2021

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3429360.3468200

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Lack of learning tools is a hindrance in acquiring knowledge for deaf people. People associated with them find it difficult to communicate because of the non availability of learning tools. Scale of research and availability of assistive software tools for deaf people is much less compared to technology based solutions for hearing peers. Getting to know sign equivalent of a word is not that easy when browsing a web page. User should use a multimedia dictionary to find the sign equivalent of a spoken language word. ISLHelper provides a solution to this problem by displaying Indian Sign Language(ISL) signs within a web page without navigating away. ISLHelper is available as a Firefox browser plugin. Results of usability study indicates that ISLHelper is favoured by participants.

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Mahajan SAlkhudaidi KBoll RReis JSolovey E(2022)Role of Technology in Increasing Representation of Deaf Individuals in Future STEM WorkplacesProceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work10.1145/3533406.3533421(1-6)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3533406.3533421

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Mahajan SAlkhudaidi KBoll RReis JSolovey E(2022)Role of Technology in Increasing Representation of Deaf Individuals in Future STEM WorkplacesProceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work10.1145/3533406.3533421(1-6)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2022
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