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A Preparatory Study of Producing a DVD-ROM of Two Sign Languages
MATSUFUJI, Midori OTSUKA, Kazuhiko ARAI, Tatsuya
Tsukuba College of Technology (TCT) Japan
(Draft for an oral presentation at International Congress on the Education of the Deaf
Introduction:
Maastricht - the Netherlands -
Abstract
17-20 July 2005)
Deaf people need a dictionary which has two windows to show motion pictures of two
languages, such as Japanese signs and American signs, just as hearing people need a
Japanese-English dictionary.
We had produced the "CD-ROM of American Signs for Deaf Students Learning English
as a Foreign Language" which contains a dictionary of more than 1000 English words
with movie pictures and two types of games. It has been used at many deaf schools in
Japan since its release in 2003. Based on the previous project, we are producing a
DVD-ROM with two windows of motion pictures to be used by foreign deaf people who
knows American signs and English and would like to learn Japanese signs and
Japanese.
Contents:
Video taped motion pictures of signs were saved using the MPEG-1 format. Each
Japanese sign was labeled in Japanese and American sign was labeled in English.
Each Japanese word was matched to the equivalent English word. A DVD-ROM
containing this dictionary was built using HTML and Javascript. The user can use the
system not only by directly inserting it into the computer, but also by storing all the
data in the WWW server and the file server. Two types of games, a memory game and a
random card game, were added to the dictionary to amuse the learners and to reinforce
their memory of the words.
Result and Conclusion:
At present, we are in the process of preparatory study. We had chance to show some
samples of our product to several deaf people from the United States, the Philippines
and Japan. They enjoyed using the dictionary and playing the games. They were much
interested in the project to be completed. This project is expected to be very useful for
international exchanging activity of the deaf people in the world.
Oral presentation
1.
Dear Colleagues! It's my great privilege to be allowed to speak about our preparatory
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