An interactive technology to support education of children with hearing problems
Aleksandar Krastev, Anna Kostadinova Lekova, Maya Dimitrova, Ivan Chavdarov · 2014
The paper presents a "design and simulation of gesture"-based model to support education of children with hearing problems. To engage the child's attention and control their own learning according to the individual skills, a framework is proposed for interaction with an artificial hand in the form of a game with rewards for correct answers. The anthropomorphic hand, designed for the purpose in 3D, is both realistic and able to produce all fingerspelling signs of the international sign language. The novelty of the present work is in the proposed integration of biologically feasible movements of the hand and the cognitive ability to display meaningful signs to support teaching novel concepts to children with hearing problems.