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Lindsay Semler, Lesley Carhart, and Rosalee Wolfe, 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.
Jerry Schnepp, 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.
Rosalee Wolfe, Nora Alba, Stacey Billups, Mary Jo Davidson, Cindy Dwyer, Diana Gorman Jamrozik,  Lori Smallwood, Karen Alkoby, Lesley Carhart, Damien Hinkle, Amy Hitt, Brian Kirchman, Glenn Lancaster, John McDonald, Lindsay Semler,  Jerry Schnepp, Brent Shiver, Anna Suh, Jeffrey Young. 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.

Rosalee Wolfe, Using CG to Improve Deaf Accessibility to the Hearing World. Special presentation as part of the Sony IPAX Imageworks Proessional Academic Excellences. Culver City, CA, August 24, 2005

John McDonald, Rosalee Wolfe, Karen Alkoby, Roymeico Carter, Mary Jo Davidson, Jacob Furst, Damien Hinkle, Bret Kroll, Glenn Lancaster, Lori Smallwood, Nedjla Ougouag, Jerry Schnepp, 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.
Jorge Toro, Automated 3D Animation System to Inflect Agreement Verbs. Proceedings of the Sixth High Desert Linguistics Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 4-6, 2004.
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.
Rosalee Wolfe and John McDonald, American Sign Language Pilot Project. Presented at the Disability Coalition Conference, sponsored by the Transportation Security Agency (TSA). Washington DC, August 6, 2003.
Glenn Lancaster, Karen Alkoby, Jeff Campen, Roymieco Carter, Mary Jo Davidson, Dan Ethridge, Jacob Furst, Damien Hinkle, Bret Kroll, Ryan Layesa, Barbara Loeding, John McDonald, Nedjla Ougouag, Jerry Schnepp, Lori Smallwood, Prabhakar Srinivasan, Jorge Toro, Rosalee Wolfe. Voice Activated Display of American Sign Language for Airport Security. Technology and Persons with Dsabilities Conference 2003. California State University at Northridge, Los Angeles, CA March 17-22, 2003.
Jacob Furst, Karen Alkoby, Nedjla Ougouag-Tiouririne, Roymiceo Carter, Juliet Christopher, Mary Jo Davidson, Dan Ethridge, Damien Hinkle, Glenn Lancaster, John McDonald, Lori Smallwood, Jorge Toro, Shuang Xu, Rosalee Wolfe. 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.
John McDonald, Karen Alkoby, Roymieco Carter, Juliet Christopher, Mary Jo Davidson, Dan Ethridge, Jacob Furst, Damien Hinkle, Glenn Lancaster, Lori Smallwood, Nedjla Ougouag-Tiouririne, Jorge Toro, Shuang Xu, Rosalee Wolfe, 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.
John McDonald, Jorge Toro, Karen Alkoby, André Berthiaume, Roymieco Carter, Pattaraporn Chomwong, Juliet Christopher, Mary Jo Davidson, Jacob Furst, Brian Konie, Glenn Lancaster, Lopa Roychoudhuri, Eric Sedgwick, Noriko Tomuro, Rosalee Wolfe: An improved articulated model of the human hand. The Visual Computer 17 (3) May 2001. 158-166.
Jorge Toro, Jacob Furst, Karen Alkoby, Roymieco Carter, Juliet Christopher, Brock Craft, May Jo Davidson, Damien Hinkle, Glenn Lancaster, Ashley Morris, John McDonald, Eric Sedgwick, Rosalee Wolfe. An Improved Graphical Environment for Transcription and Display of American Sign Language. Information 4 (4) October 2001. 533-539.
Mary Jo Davidson, Karen Alkoby, Eric Sedgwick, Roymieco Carter, Juliet Christopher, Brock Craft, Jacob Furst, Damien Hinkle, Brian Konie, Glenn Lancaster, Steve Luecking, Ashley Morris, John McDonald, Noriko Tomuro, Jorge Toro, Rosalee Wolfe. 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.
Eric Sedgwick, Karen Alkoby, Mary Jo Davidson, Roymieco Carter, Juliet Christopher, Brock Craft, Jacob Furst, Damien Hinkle, Brian Konie, Glenn Lancaster, Steve Luecking, Ashley Morris, John McDonald, Noriko Tomuro, Jorge Toro, Rosalee Wolfe. 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.
Brock Craft, Damien Hinkle, Eric Sedgwick, Karen Alkoby, Mary Jo Davidson, Roymieco Carter, Juliet Christopher, Jacob Furst, Brian Konie, Glenn Lancaster, Steve Luecking, Ashley Morris, John McDonald, Noriko Tomuro, Jorge Toro, Rosalee Wolfe. An Approach To Modeling Facial Expressions Used In American Sign Language. Presented At The 2000 DePaul CTI Research Conference, Chicago, IL November 4, 2000.
Mary Jo Davidson, Karen Alkoby, Eric Sedgwick, Andre Berthiaume, Roymieco Carter, Juliet Christopher, Brock Craft, Jacob Furst, Damien Hinkle, Brian Konie, Glenn Lancaster, Steve Luecking, Ashley Morris, John McDonald, Noriko Tomuro, Jorge Toro, Rosalee Wolfe.
Usability Testing of Computer Animation of Fingerspelling for American Sign Language. Presented at the 2000 DePaul CTI Research Conference, Chicago, IL, November 4, 2000.

Jacob Furst, Karen Alkoby, Andre Berthiaume, Pattaraporn Chomwong, Mary Jo Davidson, Brian Konie, Glenn Lancaster, Steven Lytinen, John McDonald, Lopa Roychoudhuri, Jorge Toro, Noriko Tomuro, Rosalee Wolfe.
Database Design for American Sign Language.
Proceedings of the ISCA 15th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2000). 427-430.

John McDonald, Jorge Toro, Karen Alkoby, Andre Berthiaume, Pattaraporn Chomwong, Juliet Christopher, Mary Jo Davidson, Jacob Furst, Brian Konie, Glenn Lancaster, Steven Lytinen, Lopa Roychoudhuri, Eric Sedgwick, Noriko Tomuro, Rosalee Wolfe. An Improved Articulated Model of the Human Hand. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Interactive Digital Media. 2000. 306 - 313.
Noriko Tomuro, Karen Alkoby, Andre Berthiaume, Pattaraporn Chomwong, Mary Jo Davidson, Jacob Furst, Brian Konie, Glenn Lancaster, Steven Lytinen, John McDonald, Lopa Roychoudhuri, Jorge Toro, Rosalee Wolfe.
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.

Karen Alkoby and Eric Sedgwick, Using a Computer to Fingerspell.
DeafExpo 99, San Diego, CA, November 19-22, 1999.

Karen Alkoby. A Survey of ASL Tenses. Presented at the 1999 DePaul CTI Research Conference, Chicago, IL, November 6, 1999.
Rosalee Wolfe, Karen Alkoby, Jamita Barnett, Pattaraporn Chomwong, Jacob Furst, Gary Honda, Glenn Lancaster, Frank "Tony" Lavoie, Steven Lytinen, John McDonald, Lopa Roychoudhuri, Carolyn Taylor, Noriko Tomuro, Jorge Toro. An Interface for Transcribing American Sign Language. SIGGRAPH 99 Sketches, August 11, 1999.

Grants and Awards


2005 Michael Reece Health Trust. Acquiring health-related vocabulary for ASL practice tool. In collaboration with Mt. Sinai's Deaf Access Program. Rosalee Wolfe. $10,000.
2005 NSF CREU Program, Automatic generation of nonmanual signals in declarative sentences in American Sign Language. Rosalee Wolfe. $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. $3000.
1999-2000 DePaul URC grant. Jacob Furst. $3000.
1999 Stokoe Award. Karen Alkoby. $2000.
1998 UNISYS grant. ASL team $2000.

News


2004 Several team members presented their work at MidGraph 2004:
Jorge Toro, 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.

 

 

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