{"680518":{"#nid":"680518","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Mobile Sign Language Recognition: Creating Useful and Usable Interfaces for the Deaf","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E Thad Starner, Professor, School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract: \u003C\/strong\u003EThe Oscar best picture winning movie CODA has helped introduce Deaf culture to many in the hearing community. The capital \u0022D\u0022 in Deaf is used when referring to the Deaf culture, whereas small \u0022d\u0022 deaf refers to the medical condition. In the Deaf community, sign language is used to communicate, and sign has a rich history in film, the arts, and education. Learning about the Deaf culture in the United States and the importance of American Sign Language in that culture has been key to choosing projects that are useful and usable for the Deaf. This talk will review 30 years of effort in sign language recognition and working with the Deaf community and will feature several upcoming products such as PopSignAI, a smartphone game that helps hearing parents of Deaf infants learn sign language.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Thad Starner is a Georgia Tech Professor and a wearable computing pioneer. In 1990, Starner coined the term \u0022augmented reality\u0022 to describe the types of interfaces he envisioned for the future. In 1997, Thad was a founder of the annual ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), now in its 28th year. From 2010-2018 Dr. Starner was a Technical Lead on Google\u0027s Glass, which was named a \u002250 Most Influential Gadget of All Time\u0022 by Time Magazine. Professor Starner has been inducted into the CHI Academy in 2017 and AWE\u0027s XR Hall of Fame in 2024. He has over 100 issued United States utility patents on wearables, artificial intelligence and interfaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E----\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series is free and features guest speakers presenting on topics related to people-centered technologies and their impact on society. Lunch is provided at 12:00 p.m. and the talks begin at 12:30 p.m. Join us weekly or watch video replays. Most lectures are held in the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) 1st floor ballroom.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/lunch-lectures\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehttps:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/lunch-lectures\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPopSignAI, an educational smartphone game to help hearing parents of deaf children learn sign, is the result of 30 years of effort in sign language recognition and working with the Deaf community.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PopSignAI, an educational smartphone game to help hearing parents of deaf children learn sign, is the result of 30 years of effort in sign language recognition and working with the Deaf community."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-02-14 21:42:18","changed_gmt":"2025-02-14 21:47:18","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2025-02-20T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2025-02-20T13:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2025-02-20T13:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2025-02-20 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2025-02-20 18:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2025-02-20 18:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"TSRB (1st Floor Ballroom)","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}