Sign Language by Cellphone
From: IEEE Spectrum - 03/2009 - page 16
By: Erica Westly

Software tricks will let the deaf sign over smart phones

In the past, engineers working on technology to aid the deaf had focused
primarily on hearing devices, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, but
recently they’ve been getting into what’s known as deaf technology:
applications designed to make the day-to-day lives of the deaf and
hearing-impaired easier. Now engineers from the University of Washington, in
Seattle, and Cornell University, in Ithaca, NY, have taken a big step toward
developing a mobile phone that allows real-time conversations in sign
language. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar09/7894

Links:
mobileASL:
http://mobileasl.cs.washington.edu/

Easy Call: 'Sign' Over Cell
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5820367&page=1

MobileASL: Making Cell Phones Accessible to the Deaf Community
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=9316&fID=2457
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=9316&fID=2458