A new high-tech glove enables the translation of sign language into written text, facilitating communication for the hearing or speech impaired
Breaking Sound Barriers — Electrical Engineers Develop Glove That Translates Sign Language
Software developed in the UK has worked out the basics of sign language by absorbing TV shows that are both subtitled and signed. [Here's one of the reasons my job is doomed.]
Computer learns sign language by watching TV – tech – 08 July 2009 – New Scientist
Deaf People and World War II is an NTID project collecting videos, books, articles, links, etc., about the experiences of deaf Europeans, Asians, and North Americans during the war.
a new way of cloning facial expressions during live conversations to help us better understand what influences our behaviour when we communicate with others.
Exact Replication Of Facial Expressions Challenge Assumptions About Human Behavior
People who can speak two languages are more adept at learning a new foreign language than their monolingual counterparts
Many scientists now think that gestures can help the person making them — that moving your hands can help you think.
The fully articulated robotic hand RAPHaEL (Robotic Air Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments) can firmly hold objects as heavy as a can of food or as delicate as a raw egg. It also is dexterous enough to gesture for sign language.
the ion channels responsible for hearing aren’t located where scientists previously thought.
How Human Ear Translates Vibrations Into Sounds: Discovery Of Ion Channel Turns Ear On Its Head