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McDonald, J. Filhol, M. & Challant, C. Geometric Modifications of Gestures in Sign Languages. International Society for Gesture Studies Conference (ISGS9) Chicago, USA, 12-15 July 2022 PDF
Moncrief, R., Choudhury, S., Saenz, M. Efforts to Improve Avatar Technology for Sign Language Synthesis. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) Corfu, Greece 2022 June 29-31 pp. 307-309. PDF
Filhol, M. & McDonald, J. Representation and Synthesis of Geometric Relocations. Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (sign-lang@LREC 2022), Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022), Marseille, 20-25 June 2022 pp. 53-58. PDF
Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, S., Hanke, T., McDonald, J., Shterionov, D. & Wolfe, R., eds. 7th Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology: The Junction of the Visual & the Textual Challenges and Perspectives (SLTAT 2022), Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022), Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. PDF
Choudhury, S., Analysis of Torso Movement for Signing Avatar Using Deep Learning. Proceedings of the 7th Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT) Workshop, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) Marseille, France 2022 June 20-25 pp. 7-12.PDF
Dimou, A., Papvassiliou, V., McDonald, J., Goulas, T., Vasilaki, K., Vacalopoulou, A., Fotinea, S., Efthimiou, E. & Wolfe, R. Signing Avatar Performance Evaluation within the EASIER Project. Proceedings of the 7th Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT) Workshop, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) Marseille, France 2022 June 20-25 pp. 39-44.PDF
Johnson, R. Improved Facial Realism through an Enhanced Representation of Anatomical Behavior in Sign Language Avatars. Proceedings of the 7th Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT) Workshop, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) Marseille, France 2022 June 20-25 pp. 39-44.PDF
Saenz, M. Mouthing Recognition with OpenPose in Sign Language. Proceedings of the 7th Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT) Workshop, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) Marseille, France 2022 June 20-25 pp. 91-95.PDF
Wolfe, R., McDonald, J., Johnson, R., Sturr, B., Klinghoffer, S., Bonzani, A., Alexander, A. & Barnekow, N. Supporting Mouthing in Signed Languages: New innovations and a proposal for future corpus building. Proceedings of the 7th Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT) Workshop, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) Marseille, France 2022 June 20-25 pp. 125-130.PDF
McDonald, J., Johnson, R. & Wolfe, R. A Novel Approach to Managing Lower Face Complexity in Signing Avatars Proceedings of the 7th Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT) Workshop, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) Marseille, France 2022 June 20-25 pp. 67-72.PDF
Wolfe, R., McDonald, J.C., Hanke, T., Ebling, S., Van Landuyt, D., Picron, F., Krausneker, V., Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, E. & Braffort, A. Sign Language Avatars: A Question of Representation. Information 13.4 (2022), 206. PDF
Wolfe, R., McDonald, J., Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, E., Picron, F., Van Landuyt, D. Sioen, T., Braffort, A., Filhol, M., Ebling, S., Hanke, T. & Krausneker, V. The myth of signing avatars. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL) 2021 Aug pp. 33-42. PDF
Moncrief, R. Generalizing a model for animating adverbs of manner in American Sign Language. Machine Translation 35.3 (2021), 345-362. PDF
McDonald, J. & Filhol, M. Natural synthesis of productive forms from structured descriptions of sign language. Machine Translation 35.3 (2021), 363-386. PDF
Baowidan, S. Improving realism in automated fingerspelling of American sign language. Machine Translation 35.3 (2021), 387-404. PDF
Johnson, R. Towards enhanced visual clarity of sign language avatars through recreation of fine facial detail. Machine Translation 35.3 (2021), 431-445. PDF
Wolfe, R., McDonald, J., Johnson, R., Moncrief, R., Alexander, A., Sturr, B., Klinghofer, S., Conneelly, F. Saenz, M. & Choudhry, S. State of the Art and Future Challenges of the Portrayal of Facial Nonmanual Signals by Signing Avatar. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction pp. 639-655. Springer, Cham. PDF
Wolfe, R. & McDonald, J. A survey of facial nonmanual signals portrayed by avatar. Grazer Linguistische Studien 92 (Frühling 2021) S.168-228 PDF
Wolfe, R. Sind Signing Avatars bereit für reale Situationen? Presented at DeafIT Konferenz online 2021 März 28. PDF
Montgomery, J., McDonald, J., Gong, E., Baowidan, S., & Wolfe, R. Enabling Real-Time 3D Display of Lifelike Fingerspelling in a Web App. International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs 2020 Sep 9 pp. 38-44. Springer, Cham. PDF
Schnepp, J., Wolfe, R., Brionez, G., Baowidan, S., Johnson, R., & McDonald, J. Human-centered design for a sign language learning application. Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments 2021 Jun 30 - Jul 03 pp. 1-5. PDF
Filhol, M. & McDonald, J. The Synthesis of Complex Shape Deployments in Sign Language. Proceedings of the LREC2020 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives 2020 May 16 pp. 61-68. PDF
Moncrief, R. Extending a Model for Animating Adverbs of Manner in American Sign Language. Proceedings of the LREC2020 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives 2020 May 16 pp. 151-156. PDF
Johnson, R., Wolfe, R. & McDonald, J. A survey of Shading Techniques for Facial Deformations on Sign Language Avatars. Proceedings of the LREC2020 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives 2020 May 16 pp. 107-112. PDF
Wolfe, R. Improving Deaf-hearing communication through a multilingual avatar. Presented at the Workshop "i-Walk: Intelligent Robotic Walker." 2020 Feb 26. PDF
Wolfe, R. Improving Deaf-hearing communication through a multi-lingual avatar: first steps. Presented at the 2020 Fulbright Midyear meeting. Brussels 2020 Feb 3. PDF
Wolfe, R. Sign Language Avatars: a noninvasive technology to help bridge the gap between the Deaf and hearing worlds. Presented at the Warsaw Seminar for Computer Science Researchers, Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit 2019 Nov 14. PDF
Conneelly, F., Sturr, B., Klinghofer, S. & Ilkanic, E. Is mouthing part of American Sign Language? A plan to find out. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Undergraduate STEM Research Showcase at DePaul University. Chicago 2019 Nov 8. PDF
McDonald, J. & Filhol, M. Fine tuning dynamics in contextualized proform constructs from linguistic descriptions. and Avatar Technology. Hamburg 2019 Sep 29. PDF
Wolfe, R., Jahn, E., Johnson, R. & McDonald, J. The case for avatar makeup. Sixth International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology. Hamburg 2019 Sep 29. PDF
Johnson, R., Brumm, M. & Wolfe R. An improved avatar for automatic mouth gesture recognition. Sixth International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology. Hamburg 2019 Sep 29. PDF
Wolfe, R. Signing Avatars: Approaches, requirements and critical success factors. Presented at the XVIII World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf: Sign Language Rights for All. Paris 2019 July 23-27. PDF
Wolfe, R. Improving resources for interpreter training: a data-driven approach to realistic fingerspelling generation. Presented at an NSF-funded Workshop: Automatic Sign Recognition 2019 May 15. PDF
Brumm, M., Johnson, R., Hanke, T., Grigat, R. & Wolfe, R. Use of Avatar Technology for Automatic Mouth Gesture Recognition. Workshop "SignNanmanuals 2" Graz 2019 May 3-4. PDF
Wolfe, R., Hanke, T., Langer, G., Jahn, E., Worseck, S., Bleicken, J., McDonald, J. & Johnson, S. Exploring Localization for Mouthings in Sign Language Avatars. Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2018. PDF
McDonald, J., Filhol, M., Braffort, A. & Wolfe, R. Realistically animating proforms involving placement and movement in sign languages. Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: Gesture and diversity 2018 Jul 1. PDF
McDonald, J., Wolfe, R., Johnson, S., Baowidan, S., Moncrief, R. & Guo, N. An improved framework for layering linguistic processes in sign language generation: Why there should never be a "brows" tier. International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction 2017 Jul 9. pp. 41-54. Springer, Cham. PDF
Ebling, S., Johnson, S., Wolfe, R., Moncrief, R., McDonald, J., Baowidan, S., Haug, T., Sidler-Miserez, S. & Tissi, K. Evaluation of Animated Swiss German Sign Language Fingerspelling Sequences and Signs. International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction 2017 Jul 9. pp. 3-13. Springer, Cham. PDF
Filhol, M., McDonald, J. & Wolfe, R. Synthesizing sign language by connecting linguistically structured descriptions to a multi-track animation system. International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction 2017 Jul 9. pp. 27-40. Springer, Cham. PDF
Baowidan S., Guo, N., Johnson, S., Moncrief, R., & Berke, L. A New N-gram analytics tool in ELAN and its application to improve automatic fingerspelling generation. Presented at the DePaul University School of Computing Research Symposium (SOCRS) Chicago, IL, May 26, 2017. PDF
McDonald, J., Wolfe, R., Baowidan, S., Guo, N., Johnson, S., & Moncrief, R. Using N-gram analytics to improve automatic fingerspelling generation. Linguistics and Literature Studies 5(3): pp. 187-197. 2017. PDF
McDonald, J., Wolfe, R., Schnepp, J., Hochgesang, J., Jamrozik, D. G., Stumbo, M., Berke, L., Bialek, M. & Thomas, F. An automated technique for real-time production of lifelike animations of American Sign Language. Universal Access in the Information Society 14(4):2016. pp. 551-566. Link
Wolfe, R., Ethimious, E, Glauert, J., Hanke, T., McDonald, J., & Schnepp, J. eds. Special issue: recent advances in sign language translation and avatar technology Springer International Publishing, 2016. Link
Wolfe, R. Technology for Inclusion Panel presented at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Houston, TX, October 19-21, 2016. PDF
De Nardin, R. Using an animated avatar to recreate gestures to improve the communication in LIBRAS in virtual environments. Poster presented at the XXVIII Salão de Iniciação Científica UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil (Sep 12-16, 2016)
McDonald, J., Wolfe, R., Wilbur, R., Moncrief, R., Malaia, E., Fujimoto, S., Baowidan, S., and Stec, J. A new tool to facilitate prosodic analysis of motion capture data and a data-driven technique for the improvement of avatar motion. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) Portorož, Slovenia, 28 May 2016. PDF
McDonald, J., Wolfe, R., Moncrief, R. & Baowidan, S. A computational model of role shift to support the synthesis of signed language. Presented at the 12th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) Melbourne, Australia, January 4-7, 2016. PDF
Shiver, B. N., & Wolfe, R. J. (2015, October). Evaluating Alternatives for Better Deaf Accessibility to Selected Web-Based Multimedia. In Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (pp. 231-238). ACM. PDF
Ebling, S., Wolfe, R., Schnepp, J., Baowidan, S., McDonald, J., Moncrief, R., Sidler-Miserez, S., & Tissi, T. Synthesizing the finger alphabet of Swiss German Sign Language and evaluating the comprehensibility of the resulting animations. In 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), p. 10-13. 2015. PDF
Wolfe, R., McDonald, J., Toro, J., Baowidan, S., Moncrief, R. & Schnepp, J. Promoting Better Deaf/Hearing Communication Through an Improved Interaction Design for Fingerspelling Practice. In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Today's Technologies, pp. 495-505. Springer International Publishing, 2015. PDF
McDonald, J., Wolfe, R., Schnepp, J., Hochgesang, J., Jamrozik, D., Stumbo, M., Berke, L., Bialek, M., & Thomas, F. An automated technique for real-time production of lifelike animations of American Sign Language. Universal Access in the Information Society (2015): 1-16. PDF
Moncrief, R., Baowidan, S. Stumbo, M. Biomechanical kinematics from linguistic data: A case study for role shift. Presented at DePaul SOCRS-15, May 2015. PDF
Wolfe, R., McDonald, J., Moncrief, R., Baowidan, S., Stumbo, M. Inferring biomechanical kinematics from linguistic data: A case study for role shift Symposium on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT 2015) Paris, France. 9-10 Apr 2015. PDF
McDonald, J., Wolfe, R., Moncrief, R., Baowidan, S. & Schnepp, J. A Kinematic Model for Constructed Dialog in American Sign Language. 6th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, San Diego, CA, July 8-11, 2014. PDF
Wolfe, R., McDonald, J. & Bialek, M. Using annotated material for working on translations: Annotation of nonmanual signals for automatic sign language generation. Workshop ‘SignNonmanuals’ Alpen-Adria Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria May 11-12, 2014. PDF
Toro, J. A., McDonald, J., Wolfe, R. Fostering better deaf/hearing communication through a novel mobile app for fingerspelling. Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Springer International Publishing, 2014. 559-564. PDF
Wolfe, R., McDonald., J., Berke, L. & Stumbo, M. Expanding n-gram analytics in ELAN and a case study for sign synthesis. Proceedings of the 9th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 26-31, 2014. WOLFE14.6. PDF
McDonald, J., Wolfe, R., Moncrief, R. & Baowidan, S. Analysis for synthesis: Investigating corpora for supporting the automatic generation of role shift. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) Reykjavik, Iceland, 31 May 2014. 117-122. PDF
Berke, L., & Stumbo, M. Exploring Corpus Analysis for Coarticulation in ASL ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing. Seattle, WA, February 5-8, 2014. PDF
Schnepp, J., Wolfe, R., McDonald, J. Modeling synchrony and cooccurrence for nonmanual signals in American Sign Language. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) Conference 11. University College London, London, UK, July 10-13, 2013. PDF
Schnepp, J., Wolfe, R., McDonald, J. & Toro, J. Generating Co-occurring Facial Nonmanual Signals in Synthesized American Sign Language. Eighth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP). Barcelona, Spain, February 21-24, 2013. pages 407-416. PDF
Schnepp, J., Wolfe, R., McDonald, J. & Toro, J. Combining emotion and facial nonmanual signals in synthesized American Sign Language. Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS '12) pp. 249-250. PDF
Wolfe, R., McDonald, J., Toro, J. & Schnepp, J. A Proposal for Making Corpora More Accessible for Synthesis: A Case Study Involving Pointing and Agreement Verbs. Fifth Workshop on the Presentation and Processing of Sign Languages: Connections between Corpus and Lexicon. The Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Istanbul, Turkey May 27, 2012. pp 163-166. PDF
Schnepp, J. & Shiver, B. Improving Deaf Accessibility in Remote Usability Testing. Poster presented at the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Dundee, Scotland, UK (Oct 24-26, 2011). pp 255-256. PDF
Schnepp, J., Wolfe, R., Shiver, B., McDonald, J. & Toro, J. SignQUOTE: A Remote Testing Facility for Eliciting Signed Qualitative Feedback. Paper presented at Second International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT), Dundee, Scotland, UK. (Oct 23, 2011) PDF
Wolfe, R., Cook, P., McDonald, J. & Schnepp, J. Linguistics as structure in computer animation: Toward a more effective synthesis of brow motion in American Sign Language. Nonmanuals in Sign Language Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 14:1 (2011) Edited by Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach. 179-199. PDF
Wolfe, R., McDonald, J., Schnepp, J. & Toro, J. Synthetic and acquired corpora: Meeting at the annotation. Presented at the workshop Building Sign Language Corpora in North America. Washington, DC, May 21, 2011. PDF
Shiver, B. Utilizing automatic speech recognition to improve Deaf accessibility on the Web. Proceedings of the DePaul CDM School of Computing Research Symposium (SOCRS 2011) Chicago, IL pp. 4-8. PDF
Kelley, R. & Gobber, B. Toward a more flexible believable model of the human hand for American Sign Language synthesis. Poster presented at the DePaul CDM School of Computing Research Symposium (SOCRS 2011) Chicago, IL PDF
Wolfe, R., McDonald, J., & Schnepp, J. An Avatar to Depict Sign Language: Building from Reusable Hand Animation. Presented at the International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT) Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Berlin, Germany. January 10-11, 2011. PDF
Jamrozik, D., Davidson, M., McDonald, J. & Wolfe, R. Teaching Students to Decipher Fingerspelling through Context: A New Pedagogical Approach. Proceedings of the 17th National Convention Conference of Interpreter Trainers. San Antonio, TX. October 27-30, 2010, pp. 35-47. PDF
Schnepp, J., Wolfe, R. & McDonald, J. Synthetic Corpora: A Synergy of Linguistics and Computer Animation Fourth Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies LREC 2010. Valetta, Malta. May 23, 2010. PDF
Jamrozik, D. & Wolfe, R. Using Contextual Cues in Deciphering Fingerspelling: New Discoveries and Techniques Deaf Studies Today! Orem, Utah. April 8, 2010.
Jamrozik, D. & Wolfe, R. New Findings in Fingerspelling Recognition: What it Means for You. The 2009 RID National Conference. Philadelphia, PA. August 4, 2009. PDF
Wolfe, R., Cook, P., McDonald, J. & Schnepp, J., Toward a Better Understanding of Nonmanual Signals through Acquisition and Synthesis. Presented at Nonmanuals in Sign Languages (NISL) Frankfurt am Main, Germany. April 5, 2009. PDF
Alkoby, K.,. Toward True ASL Dictionaries: New Development in Handshape Similarity. Deaf Studies Today! Orem, Utah, April 12, 2008. PDF
Wolfe, R., Davidson, M., & McDonald, J. Using Technology to Individualize Learning Experiences in Reading Curricula for Deaf Students. The 23rd Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. Los Angeles, CA March 13, 2008. PDF
Wolfe, R., McDonald, J, Davidson, M., & Frank, C. Using an Animation-based Technology to Support Reading Curricula for Deaf Elementary Schoolchildren. The 22nd Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. Los Angeles, CA March 21, 2007 PDF
Davidson, M. PAULA: A Computer-Based Sign Language Tutor for Hearing Adults. The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2006): Teaching with Agents, Robots, and NLP. Jhongli, Taiwan, 2006. PDF
Semler, L., Carhart, L. & Wolfe, R., The Automation of Non-manual Signals of Declarative Sentences in American Sign Language. DePaul CTI Research Symposium (CTIRS) &, Midwest Software Engineering Conference (MSEC). Chicago, Illinois, Saturday, April 29th, 2006. PDF
Schnepp, J., Towards Computerized Synthesis of Nonmanual Signals in American Sign Language. DePaul CTI Research Symposium (CTIRS) &, Midwest Software Engineering Conference (MSEC). Chicago, Illinois, Saturday, April 29th, 2006. PDF
Wolfe, R., Alba, N., Billups S., Davidson, M., Dwyer, C., Jamrozik, D.,  , Smallwood, L., Alkoby, K.,, Carhart, L., Hinkle, D., Hitt, A., Kirchman, B., Lancaster, G., McDonald, J., Semler, L.,  ,Schnepp, J., Shiver, B., Suh, A. & Young, J. An Improved Tool for Fingerspelling Recognition. Technology and Persons with Dsabilities Conference 2006. California State University at Northridge, Los Angeles, CA March 20-25, 2006. PDF
Wolfe, R., Using CG to Improve Deaf Accessibility to the Hearing World. Special presentation as part of the Sony IPAX Imageworks Professional Academic Excellences. Culver City, CA, August 24, 2005
McDonald, J., Wolfe, R., Alkoby, K.,, Carter, R., Davidson, M., Furst, J., Hinkle, D., Bret Kroll, Lancaster, G., Smallwood, L., Ougouag, N. & Schnepp, J., Achieving Consistency in an FK/IK Interface for a Seven Degree of Freedom Kinematic Chain. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Interactive Digital Media 2005, Plzen, Czech Republic, February 2005, pp 171-179. PDF
Toro, J. Automated 3D Animation System to Inflect Agreement Verbs. Proceedings of the Sixth High Desert Linguistics Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 4-6, 2004. PDF
Alba, N., Billups, S., Wolfe, R., Dwyer, C., Davidson, M.J., Alkoby, K., McDonald, J., Tsang, R., Toro, J., Young, J., Lancaster, G., Schmidt, P., Mansueto, J., Schnepp, J. & Shiver, B. A Fingerspelling Learning Tool [presentation]. DePaul Science Showcase, Chicago, IL. November 5, 2004.
Wolfe, R. & McDonald, J. American Sign Language Pilot Project. Presented at the Disability Coalition Conference, sponsored by the Transportation Security Agency (TSA). Washington DC, August 6, 2003.
Lancaster, G., Alkoby, K., Campen, J., Carter, R., Davidson, M., Ethridge, D., Furst, J., Hinkle, D., Kroll, B., Layesa, R., Loeding, B., McDonald, J., Ougouag, N., Schnepp, J., Smallwood, L., Srinivasan, P., Toro, J. & Wolfe, R. Voice Activated Display of American Sign Language for Airport Security. Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference 2003. California State University at Northridge, Los Angeles, CA March 17-22, 2003. PDF
Furst, J., Alkoby, K.,, Ougouag-Tiouririne, R., Carter, R., Christopher, J., Davidson, M., Ethridge, D., Hinkle, D., Lancaster, G., McDonald, J., Smallwood, L., Toro, J., Xu, S. & Wolfe, R. Making Airport Security Accessible to the Deaf. Proceedings of the Fifth IASTAD International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, Kaua'i, HI, August 2002. pp. 38-43. PDF
McDonald, J., Alkoby, K.,, Carter, R., Christopher, J., Davidson, M., Ethridge, D., Furst, J., Hinkle, D., Lancaster, G., Smallwood, L., Ougouag-Tiouririne, N., Toro, J., Xu, S. & Wolfe, R. A Direct Method for Positioning the Arms of a Human Model. Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2002, May 27-29, 2002, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 99-106. PDF
McDonald, J., Toro, J., Alkoby, K., Berthiaume, A., Carter, R., Chomwong, P., Christopher, J., Davidson, M., Furst, J., Konie, B., Lancaster, G., Roychoudhuri, L., Sedgwick, E., Tomuro, N. & Wolfe, R. An improved articulated model of the human hand. The Visual Computer 17 (3) May 2001. 158-166. PDF
Toro, J., Furst, J., Alkoby, K.,, Carter, R., Christopher, J., Craft, B., Davidson, M., Hinkle, D., Lancaster, G., Morris, A., McDonald, J., Sedgwick, E. & Wolfe, R. An Improved Graphical Environment for Transcription and Display of American Sign Language. Information 4 (4) October 2001. 533-539. PDF
Davidson, M., Alkoby, K.,, Sedgwick, E., Carter, R., Christopher, J., Craft, B., Furst, J., Hinkle, D., Konie, B., Lancaster, G., Luecking, S., Morris, A., McDonald, J., Tomuro, N., Toro, J. & Wolfe, R. Improved Hand Animation for American Sign Language. Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference 2001. California State University at Northridge, Los Angeles, CA. March 19-24, 2001. PDF
Sedgwick, E., Alkoby, K.,, Davidson, M., Carter, R., Christopher, J., Craft, B., Furst, J., Hinkle, D., Konie, B., Lancaster, G., Luecking, S., Morris, A., McDonald, J., Tomuro, N., Toro, J. & Wolfe, R. Toward the Effective Animation of American Sign Language. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Interactive Digital Media. Plyen, Czech Republic, February 6 - 9, 2001. 375-378. PDF
Craft, B., Hinkle, D., Sedgwick, E., Alkoby, K.,, Davidson, M., Carter, R., Christopher, J., Furst, J., Konie, B., Lancaster, G., Luecking, S., Morris, A., McDonald, J., Tomuro, N., Toro, J. & Wolfe, R. An Approach To Modeling Facial Expressions Used In American Sign Language. Presented At The 2000 DePaul CTI Research Conference, Chicago, IL November 4, 2000. PDF
Davidson, M., Alkoby, K.,, Sedgwick, E., Berthiaume, A., Carter, R., Christopher, J., Craft, B., Furst, J., Hinkle, D., Konie, B., Lancaster, G., Luecking, S., Morris, A., McDonald, J., Tomuro, N., Toro, J. & Wolfe, R.Usability Testing of Computer Animation of Fingerspelling for American Sign Language. Presented at the 2000 DePaul CTI Research Conference, Chicago, IL, November 4, 2000. PDF
Furst, J., Alkoby, K.,, Berthiaume, A., Chomwong, P., Davidson, M., Konie, B., Lancaster, G., Lytinen, S., McDonald, J., Roychoudhuri, L., Toro, J., Tomuro, N. & Wolfe, R. Database Design for American Sign Language. Proceedings of the ISCA 15th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2000). 427-430. PDF
Tomuro, N., Alkoby, K.,, Berthiaume, A., Chomwong, P., Davidson, M., Furst, J., Konie, B., Lancaster, G., Lytinen, S., McDonald, J., Roychoudhuri, L., Toro, J. & Wolfe, R. An Alternative Method for Building A Database for American Sign Language. Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference 2000. California State University at Northridge, Los Angeles, CA March 20-25, 2000. PDF
Alkoby, K. & Sedgwick, E. Using a Computer to Fingerspell. DeafExpo 99, San Diego, CA, November 19-22, 1999.
Alkoby, K. A Survey of ASL Tenses. Presented at the 1999 DePaul CTI Research Conference, Chicago, IL, November 6, 1999. PDF
Wolfe, R., Alkoby, K.,, Barnett, J., Chomwong, P., Furst, J., Honda, G., Lancaster, G., Lavoie, F., Lytinen, S., McDonald, J., Roychoudhuri, L., Taylor, C., Tomuro, N. & Toro. J. An Interface for Transcribing American Sign Language. SIGGRAPH 99 Sketches, August 11, 1999. PDF

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Grants and Awards

  • 2014 Improvements to facial expressions in American Sign Language. DePaul University Undergraduate Research Assistant Program $1350
  • 2013-2014 Third International Symposium on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT 2013) DePaul University Research Council, $4985
  • 2013 Third International Symposium on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT 2013) Special grant from DePaul CDM $5000
  • 2013-2014 Applying coarticulation to a generative model of American Sign Language, CREU Program, $7,500
  • 2013 Additions to a lexicon for ASL synthesis, DePaul University Undergraduate Research Assistant Program $1350
  • 2012 Toward a Real-Time Display of a Signing Avatar, CREU Program $12,300
  • 2012 Toward a synthetic ASL corpus, DePaul University URAP, $675
  • 2012 Additions to a lexicon for synthetic ASL, DePaul University URAP $1350
  • 2011 A video dictionary of throwing, pulling, and lifting, DePaul University URC grant. $3485
  • 2009-2010 Michael Reece Health Trust. Acquiring health-related vocabulary for ASL practice tool. In collaboration with Mt. Sinai's Deaf Access Program. $10,000.
  • 2005 NSF CREU Program, Automatic generation of nonmanual signals in declarative sentences in American Sign Language. $2500.
  • 2004 NSF Travel grant to attend Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference (TISLR 8) in Barcelona, Sep 8 - Oct 2. Karen Alkoby. $1000.
  • 2004-2005 NSF CREU Program. A Fingerspelling Tutoring Tool. Rosalee Wolfe and John McDonald. $2500.
  • 2004 DePaul URAS Grant. Display Engine for Fingerspelling. John McDonald. $680.
  • 2004 Dixon Association for Retarded Citizens. Enhancements to a Practice Tool for Learning Sign Language. Rosalee Wolfe and John McDonald. $3000.
  • 2004. State of Illinois Department of Human Services. Volunteer Services Recognition. ASL Team.
  • 2003-2004 NSF CREW Program, Automating Rendering of ASL Signs. John McDonald and Jacob Furst. $2200.
  • 2003 Speech Technology Magazine. Most Innovative Solutions Award. ASL Team.
  • 2002 Dixon Association for Retarded Citizens. A Practice Tool for Learning Sign Language. Rosalee Wolfe and John McDonald. $3000.
  • 2002 DePaul University URC grant. Speech Recognition for Airport Security. Glenn Lancaster. $3000.
  • 2002 Innovative Systems Group. Increasing Accessibility of Airport Security. ASL Team. $2000.
  • 2001 DePaul URC grant, Vocabulary for Airport Security. Jacob Furst. $3000.
  • 2000 DePaul URC grant, Nonmanual signals for American Sign Language. Roymeico Carter. $3000.
  • 2000 DePaul URAS grant, A Digital Human Model for English to American Sign Language translation. Eric Sedgwick and Brian Konie. $680.
  • 1999-2000 DePaul QIC grant, An Object-Oriented Three-Dimensional Graphics System. John McDonald.
  • 1999-2000 DePaul URC grant. Jacob Furst. $3000
  • 1999 Stokoe Award. Karen Alkoby.$2000
  • 1998 UNISYS grant. ASL team $2000.

News

  • 2015 Sarah Ebling, a doctoral student at the University of Zurich, spent a month with the ASL group to study fingerspelling automation.
  • 2013 Larwan Berke participated in the 2013 DREU program, sponsored by cra.org.
  • 2013 Brent N. Shiver successfully defended his dissertation, Improving Deaf Accessibility to Web-based Multimedia.
  • 2013 DePaul University hosted the Third International Symposium on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT)
  • 2011 Jerry Clyde Schnepp successfully defended his dissertation, A Representation of Selected Nonmanual Signals in American Sign Language.
  • 2008 Karen Lynne Alkoby successfully defended her dissertation, An Analytic Model for Handshape Similarity in American Sign Language. Karen was the first Deaf woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
  • 2005 Jorge Andres Toro successfully defended his dissertation, Automatic verb agreement in computer synthesized depictions of American Sign Language.
  • 2005 Mary Jo Davidson successfully defended her dissertation, A practical approach to sign language learning for institutional staff.
  • 2004 Several team members presented their work at MidGraph 2004: Toro, J.; Jerry Schnepp, Pete Schmitt, MaryJo Davidson, Stacey Billups and Nora Alba.
  • 2004 Stacey Billups and Nora Alba presented their work on developing a fingerspelling tutoring tool at the DePaul Science Showcase (Nov 5th)
  • 2004 Karen Alkoby was invited to Sign WISE workshop at Gallaudet University. Aug 5-8, Washington DC
  • 2004 Jorge Toro gave an invited workshop at the International Conference in Human Computer Interaction (Interaccion 2004), University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain. May 3-7, 2004.