C9052019320

Development of The AR School App for Children with Hearing Impairment Who Begin Learning Ecuadorian Sign Language using Augmented Reality
Ricardo Naranjo¹, Jeison Pinargote², Antonio López³, Loïc Martínez Normand^4
1Ricardo Naranjo Sánchez*, Department of Computer Languages and Systems and Software Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
²Jeison Pinargote, Department of Computer Science, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
³Antonio Lopez, Department of Computer Science, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
⁴Loïc Martínez Normand, Department of Computer Languages and Systems and Software Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Manuscript received on December 12, 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on December 21, 2019. | Manuscript published on January 10, 2020. | PP: 463-466 | Volume-9 Issue-3, January 2020. | Retrieval Number: C9052019320/2020©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.C9052.019320
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Abstract: Augmented reality AR has been used for many years in different fields of education. It has provided advantages in learning, However, no applications focused on the initial learning of Ecuadorian sign language for children with hearing impairments in their primary school years have been found. In this paper we present the development of a mobile application based on augmented reality, the Unity tool was used as a platform for mobile devices and the Vuforia SDK complement for augmented reality. With this application, the child can see the gesticulation of words in sign language through the use of printed templates. It also has an option to perform a quiz that will allow it to evaluate the knowledge the children acquired from the learning module. The mobile application called ARSchool based on augmented reality which is designed and adapted for people with hearing impairment, mainly for school-age children, as support for the initial learning of sign language in Ecuador. Once the application was developed, it was tested both at school and at home, in which teachers and parents made children with hearing impairments interact.
Keywords: Augmented Reality, Deaf, Hearing Disabilities, Sign Language.
Scope of the Article:  Natural Language Processing