PopSign: Teaching American Sign Language Using Mobile Games

Info about the Project

CopyCat and PopSign are two games that help deaf children and their parents acquire language skills in American Sign Language. 95% of deaf children are born to hearing parents, and most of those parents never learn enough sign language to teach their children. As short term memory skills are learned from acquiring a language, many deaf children enter school with short term memory of less than 3 items, much less than hearing children of hearing parents or Deaf children of Deaf parents. Our systems address this problem directly.
Faculty: 
Thad Starner
Students: 
Bianca Copello, Domino Weir, Ellie Goebel, Cheryl Wang