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SENJO - Sign Language Translator
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red dot award: design concept 2007
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| Maxie Lisa Pantel |
SENJO is an innovative sign-language translator that allows hearing impaired people to effortlessly communicate with those who don’t use sign language.
This wearable computer system allows mobility and brings spontaneity to the user’s daily life, as well as the ability to contribute to the user’s context. SENJO’s multi-modular communication system supports the existing sign-language system, but incorporates technology to allow for better communication between the hearing-impaired and the non-hearing impaired. SENJO uses a digital interface for both the visual interpretation of the spoken word as well as the audio translation of hand movements by means of a wearable computer equipped with cameras and sensors. SENJO also uses speech recognition to translate the spoken language into sign-language. The visual translated hand images are “projected” through a specially designed head-mounted display. Speakers, incorporated within the chest piece, interpret the user’s motions into spoken words.
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