A Proposed Intelligent Software Agent Criteria for Educating Deaf Student the Sign Language
Safaa S. Mahmoud · ASME Press eBooks · 2009
This research aimed to design an intelligent S/W agent to represent the sign languages to educate the deaf student as special needs individuals according to the international criteria of tutoring computer software as an intelligent tutoring system. Semi-experimental method and a comparative study between two types of representing sign language (digital video or 3d animation) are shown to determine the most appropriate methods for raising the learning rate of the deaf students. The designed application limited to the unit taught is “The nutrition systems” from the Science curriculum, Second year, Al Amal Schools, at Egypt. The research results revealed that there are significant statistical differences between the averages of the degrees of the two experimental groups in achievement, attributed to the difference type of displaying the sign language (Digital Video or 3d animations) for behalf of the group used the digital video and the Intelligent S/W agent.