Basic Considerations of Visualization Support for the Remote Sign Language Interpretation Services
Ichiro Naito, Hiroshi Murakami, Nobuko Kato, Hiroki Minagawa, Sumihiro Kawano, Tomoyuki Nishioka, Yasushi Ishihara, Shigeki Miyoshi · Journal of the Visualization Society of Japan · 2003
Recently it has become possible for persons with hearing impairments in remote locations to communicate via sign language using video phones and videoconferencing systems. Video interpreting makes use of videoconferencing technology to allow remote sign language interpreting services to occur without an interpreter on site. In actually attempting video interpreting services for the hearing impaired, however, critical problems must be take in account, besides the issue of video quality, picture quality and refresh rate, that is current being examined. Our approach uses dual-video transmission which gives interpreters full view of the remote place. For example, the interpreter can see the face of a hearing speaker giving a presentation and the face of the audience. with hearing impairments at the same time. In this paper, we discuss that a sign language interpreter, in a remote sign language interpreting services, can realize more effective interpretation by visualization support in a lecture scene.