American Sign Language Avatar Project at DePaul University

09/04/2025

Our team will be presenting two posters at the upcoming 2025 SLTAT workshop!

Details here --

Home page of the 9th Workshop on Sign language Translation and Avatar Technology

05/15/2025

Call for papers for SLTAT 2025! Only two weeks left --

Share your latest and greatest with an active community dedicated to improving communication between the Deaf and hearing communities.

An exciting development -- this year, accepted papers will be published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)!

Details here:

Home page of the 9th Workshop on Sign language Translation and Avatar Technology

02/10/2025

Members of the American Sign Language Avatar Project at DePaul University's Technology Innovation Showcase held January 31st. Flanking the group are members Katie and Madhu, who are both master's students and are taking ASL classes offered by the Chicago Hearing Society. Their majors are Computer Science and HCI, respectively. From left to right behind the table are Megan, Maria and EJ. Meghan and EJ are our animators. Maria is one of our doctoral students, who will be working on an approach to transfer our animation data to Mexican Sign Language.

03/29/2022

Scholarship opportunity!
The Nicholas J. Deleonardis Scholarship encourages full-time college students to research noninvasive technologies that will improve communication between Deaf and hearing people.
Details here:

The goal of the Nicholas J. Deleonardis Scholarship is to encourage full-time college students to engage in research leading to noninvasive technologies that will improve communication between Deaf and hearing people.

12/17/2021

Looking for movies / books for the holidays? The EASIER project has assembled an excellent list for you

RAISING DEAF AWARENESS: BEST BOOKS AND FILMS FOR THOSE WHO ARE KEEN TO LEARN MORE. Looking for a winter read or a good film for a cozy evening indoors? You’ve come to the right place - the EASIER consortium has some recommendations. There’s something magical about watching the seasons change fr

12/14/2021

The ICCHP / AAATE conference is hosting a Special Thematic Session on Language Accessibility of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing.

https://www.icchp-aaate.org/sts

What's cool about this session is that the sign languages and deaf communities will be an important focus.

And if you're doing research in this area, send in an extended abstract. Details are available at https://www.icchp-aaate.org/add-new-abstract

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12/10/2021

Exciting news -- a new Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology workshop is coming up!

We're looking for your latest developments -- tell us about what you've being doing.

Details available at http://sltat.cs.depaul.edu/sltat_2022.htm

11/16/2021

The California School for the Deaf, Riverside, is steamrolling its opponents, electrifying a campus that has seen more than a few athletic defeats.

10/29/2021

One of the articles in the "Did you know" series from the EU-sponsored EASIER project. This one talks about the nature of name signs in Deaf culture. https://www.project-easier.eu/news/2021/10/28/name-signs/

Scroll of the end -- you'll see that Paula is showing you the name sign of the EASIER project.

Name signs, also known as sign names, are an important component of Deaf culture. The research about them was pioneered by an American linguist, Dr. Samuel J. Supalla. In 1992, Dr. Supalla noted in his book “The Book of Name Signs” that name signs serve two functions: provide d/Deaf people with

09/03/2021

Here were our takeaway points -- which were very well received :-)
https://twitter.com/leesonl/status/1428780090570297348

09/03/2021

A tweet about signing avatars, taken from our presentation --
https://twitter.com/leesonl/status/1428779089998012419