Fingerspelling protocols

[Karen Alkoby]

Hi everyone!

 

I am Karen Alkoby.  I am the one who came up with an idea of "DePaul ASL Synthesizer Project" - http://asl.cs.depaul.edu.    We have about 15-20 team members working on this project.  All of them are hearing except me.  However, I just had found a deaf master student and encourage him to be on my team.   The more deaf participants the better it will be.  

 

I would like some citations or any of documents that pertains fingerspelling.  Paula still is very awkward with her fingerspelling skills.   We are studying more on handshapes.  We realized that there are several ways of using handshape that depends on what letter follows next or/and what letter precedes handshape in order to get better flow of fingerspelling.  

 

For example:   

  There may be closed, half-closed, and flat handshape for "N" handshape.

 

If a person spells "Don", the "N" would be in closed position.  If the person spells "Ben", the "N" handshape would be in half-closed position.   If the person spells "Anna", the "N" would be in flat "N" handshape.

 

I hope you understand what I am talking about.  It would be great if you know any of the documents, protocols or citations that I am looking for.  

 

Thanks,

Karen Alkoby

karenasl at rcnchicago.com
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