Training program on sign language: social inclusion through Virtual
  Reality in ISENSE project
Alessia Bisio Enrique Yeguas-Bolívar Pilar Aparicio-Martínez María Dolores Redel-Macías Sara Pinzi Stefano Rossi Juri Taborri
Structured hand gestures that incorporate visual motions and signs are used
in sign language. Sign language is a valuable means of daily communication for
individuals who are deaf or have speech impairments, but it is still rare among
hearing people, and fewer are capable of understand it. Within the academic
context, parents and teachers play a crucial role in supporting deaf students
from childhood by facilitating their learning of sign language. In the last
years, among all the teaching tools useful for learning sign language, the use
of Virtual Reality (VR) has increased, as it has been demonstrated to improve
retention, memory and attention during the learning process. The ISENSE project
has been created to assist students with deafness during their academic life by
proposing different technological tools for teaching sign language to the
hearing community in the academic context. As part of the ISENSE project, this
work aims to develop an application for Spanish and Italian sign language
recognition that exploits the VR environment to quickly and easily create a
comprehensive database of signs and an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based
software to accurately classify and recognize static and dynamic signs: from
letters to sentences.