"Hold That Thought" - sign language and the design of gesture interfaces

"Hold That Thought" - sign language and the design of gesture interfaces

Sign language has largely been dismissed in gesture interface research on grounds of being a natural language. This essay argues that this has been premature. We begin with an overview of relevant literature in the fields of both gesture interface design and sign language, followed by a discussion o...

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Main Author: van der Zwan, Job Leonard
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS) 2014
Subjects:
Gesture Interface
Sign Language
Deaf
Text Interface
Graphical User Interface
GUI
CLI
Command Line Interface
Interface Design
Arts
Konst
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spelling ndltd-UPSALLA1-oai-DiVA.org-mau-231092020-11-25T05:31:02Z"Hold That Thought" - sign language and the design of gesture interfacesengvan der Zwan, Job LeonardMalmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle2014Gesture InterfaceSign LanguageDeafText InterfaceGraphical User InterfaceGUICLICommand Line InterfaceInterface DesignArtsKonstSign language has largely been dismissed in gesture interface research on grounds of being a natural language. This essay argues that this has been premature. We begin with an overview of relevant literature in the fields of both gesture interface design and sign language, followed by a discussion of other graphical and text-based user interfaces in the context of language - effectively a short essay on language and metaphors in interface design, going into more detail why I believe dismissing sign languages based on their linguistic nature is a mistake. This is further explored in an example user interface that was designed by taking an insight from sign language as a starting point to replace the desktop metaphor and combining it with the discussed text-based interfaces to extend the WIMP paradigm. This experimental design was used as a way to pose questions to users about potential uses of gesture interfaces. Student thesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesistexthttp://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23109Local 17046application/pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language English
format Others
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topic Gesture Interface
Sign Language
Deaf
Text Interface
Graphical User Interface
GUI
CLI
Command Line Interface
Interface Design
Arts
Konst
spellingShingle Gesture Interface
Sign Language
Deaf
Text Interface
Graphical User Interface
GUI
CLI
Command Line Interface
Interface Design
Arts
Konst
van der Zwan, Job Leonard
"Hold That Thought" - sign language and the design of gesture interfaces
description Sign language has largely been dismissed in gesture interface research on grounds of being a natural language. This essay argues that this has been premature. We begin with an overview of relevant literature in the fields of both gesture interface design and sign language, followed by a discussion of other graphical and text-based user interfaces in the context of language - effectively a short essay on language and metaphors in interface design, going into more detail why I believe dismissing sign languages based on their linguistic nature is a mistake. This is further explored in an example user interface that was designed by taking an insight from sign language as a starting point to replace the desktop metaphor and combining it with the discussed text-based interfaces to extend the WIMP paradigm. This experimental design was used as a way to pose questions to users about potential uses of gesture interfaces.
author van der Zwan, Job Leonard
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