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Sign language vs. text messaging?

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Sign language vs. text messaging?

Posted by Anonymous at September 08. 2008

Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle are developing software that would let deaf and hard-of-hearing mobile phone users communicate via sign language in real-time video, instead of being limited only to text messaging.  The full article is available online at:


http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=cell-phone-sign-language




Though some technical challenges remain to be overcome, what do you think of this idea? 




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