For deaf and dumb people, Sign language is the only way of communication. With the help of sign language, these physical impaired people express their emotions and thoughts to other person. Since for the common person, it is difficult to understand these language therefore often these physically challenged has to keep the translator along with them to communicate with the world. Hence sign lang...

This paper explores the issue of comprehensibility in TV news with sign language. It starts by discussing academic research showing that Deaf viewers often struggle to understand simultaneous interpretation newscasts Based on this literature review, we investigate Flemish case, where public broadcaster VRT offers evening Sign Language (VGT) a hearing interpreter, three empirical stages. First, ...

Sign language communication via videotelephone has demanding visual quality requirements. In order to optimise video coding for sign language it is necessary to quantify the importance of areas of the video scene. Eye movements of deaf users are tracked whilst watching a sign language video sequence. The results indicate that the gaze tends to concentrate on the face region with occasional excu...

Spatial language in signed language is assumed to be shaped by affordances of the visual-spatial modality – where the use of the hands and space allow the mapping of spatial relationships in an iconic, analogue way – and thus to be similar across sign languages. In this study, we test assumptions regarding the modality-driven similarity of spatial language by comparing locative expressions (e.g...

Long term defence planning is a complex undertaking involving many separate analytical steps and with non-trivial transitions from one step to the next. Many nations struggle with the challenge of establishing analytical rigour, structure and traceability in their defence planning processes. In this paper we will present a tool that has been developed not only to support defence planning, but w...