Interactive Games with an Assistive Robotic System for Hearing-Impaired Children.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

This paper presents an assistive robotic system, which can recognize and express sign language words from a predefined set, within interactive games to communicate with and teach hearing-impaired children sign language. The robotic system uses audio, visual and tactile feedback for interaction with the children and the teacher/researcher.

Authors

  • Pinar Uluer
    Faculty of Computer and Informatics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Neziha Akalin
    Faculty of Computer and Informatics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Cemal Gurpinar
    Faculty of Computer and Informatics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Hatice Kose
    Faculty of Computer and Informatics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.