Image credit: UnsplashAbstract
Soon, smartphones may be capable of allowing American Sign Language (ASL) signing and/or fingerspelling for text entry. To explore the usefulness of this approach, we compared emulated fingerspelling recognition with a virtual keyboard for 12 Deaf participants. With practice, fingerspelling is faster (42.5 wpm), potentially has fewer errors (4.02% corrected error rate) and higher throughput (14.2 bits/second), and is as desired as virtual keyboard texting (31.9 wpm; 6.46% corrected error rate; 10.9 bits/second throughput). Our second study recruits another 12 Deaf users at the 2022 National Association for the Deaf conference to compare the walk-up usability of fingerspelling alone, signing, and virtual keyboard text entry for interacting with an emulated mobile assistant. Both signing and virtual keyboard text entry were preferred over fingerspelling.
Saad Hassan
Assistant Professor
My research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), accessibility, and computational social science.
Abraham Glasser
Assistant Professor at Gallaudet University
Max Shengelia
Former Research Assistant at RIT
Thad E. Starner
Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology
Sean Forbes
CEO DPAN
Nathan Qualls
DPAN Staff
