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Prof. Mohamed Jemni Prof. Mohamed Jemni Research Laboratory LaTICE - University of Tunis Tunisia MMS Sign Project Toward making mobile phones accessible for Deaf ICT Innovations Workshop ICT Innovations Workshop

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ICT Innovations Workshop. MMS Sign Project Toward making mobile phones accessible for Deaf. Prof. Mohamed Jemni. Research Laboratory LaTICE - University of Tunis Tunisia. Research Laboratory LaTICE – University of Tunis. E-science, E-learning and E-accessibility Accessible e-learning - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Prof. Mohamed JemniProf. Mohamed Jemni

Research Laboratory LaTICE - University of TunisTunisia

MMS Sign Project Toward making mobile phones accessible for

Deaf

ICT Innovations WorkshopICT Innovations Workshop

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• E-science, E-learning and E-accessibility• Accessible e-learning• Using ICT to improve communication

with Deaf – Project WEB SIGN– Project MMS SIGN

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Research Laboratory LaTICE – University of Tunis

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• Collaborating with W3C to promote web accessibility in the Arab World

• Arab version of the Guidlines WCGA 2.0www.utic.rnu.tn/wcag2.0

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Research Laboratory UTIC – University of Tunis

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• World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), confirmed that 80% of Deaf people lack education or are undereducated, are illiterate or semi-literate (2003).

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• Allow communication with deaf people using sign language via the web and internet.

• Automatic translation of written text to sign language.

• Development of avatar based system.

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• Non universality of sign language- More than 127 official sign languages;- T.S.E Tunisian sign language;- A.S.L American sign language.- L.S.F French sign language.

In the same country we can find some differences between sign languages.

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• Unavailability of open source tools for translation to sign language.

• Video based systems need an important bandwidth in addition to their costs.

• Difficulties of dictionary construction (time and cost).

• Animation of the avatar needs sophisticated programming skills.

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• - Construction of the dictionary: - a friendly of use graphical

interface to introduce signs

- No need to programming skills- collaborative approach: many people can

contribute in this task

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• Possibility of creation of a virtual community: - For every national/regional sign

language - a standard dictionary can be used as a

reference- An administrator for every community to validate/accept sign propositions- Multilanguage interface

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• WebSign can be used as a service witch translates text to sign languages.

• Developers can use it in order to create accessible applications.

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Demonstration

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• Mobile phones are not accessible to deaf persons.

• More than 80% of deaf in the World are analphabet.

• They can not use the SMS technology.

VoiceorText

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• Our objective is to make mobile phone’s services usable and accessible to deaf persons.

• Our objective is to allow sending MMSs in sign language.

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DEMONSTRATION

World Summit Award (WSA) – Mobile 2010

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Accessible 3D signing avatars: the Tunisian experience

Student Award 2012

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Mobile Sign Language Translation System for Deaf Community

Web For All 2012

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Professor Mohamed Jemni

Head of the Research Laboratory LaTICEUniversity of Tunis –Tunisia

[email protected]