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MobileASL: Intelligibility of Sign Language Video as Constrained by Mobile Phone Technology

Overview For Deaf people, access to the mobile telephone network in the United States is currently limited to text messaging, forcing communication in English as opposed to American Sign Language (ASL), the preferred language. Because ASL is a visual language, mobile video phones have the potential to give Deaf people access to real-time mobile communication in their preferred language. However, even today's best video compression techniques can not yield intelligible ASL at limited cell phone network bandwidths. Motivated by this constraint, the authors conducted one focus group and one user study with members of the Deaf Community to determine the intelligibility effects of video compression techniques that exploit the visual nature of sign language.

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Publisher	University of Washington	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2006	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	Multimedia, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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