What is it about?
This paper explores the feasibility of using smart rings to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) fingerspelling, a manual alphabet, as a means of text-entry. This work explores top 4 word selection, found commonly on smartphone keyboards, and how many rings are needed to capture enough meaningful information.
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Why is it important?
With fingerspelling datasets (comprised of videos) becoming larger and more frequently released, we respond to potential privacy concerns and limitations to walking while texting in advance by exploring a camera-free system. Such a system could not only be utilized by the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing signing community, but also by others seeking a new way to input text to their devices since fingerspelling consists of just the 26 letters of the English Alphabet.
Perspectives
While an early stage exploration, there is potential here to normalize a subset of signed languages, potentially bridging together two communities divided by the spoken and gestural modality.
David Martin
Georgia Institute of Technology
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This page is a summary of: FingerSpeller: Camera-Free Text Entry Using Smart Rings for American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition, October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3597638.3614491.
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