Kinect XBox Tool Learning Sign Language

Sensor Kinect XBOX 360 from Microsoft known as a technology that makes the game more exciting by using gestures or gesture sensors. However, in the hands of Bandung Institute of Technology student dibesut into sensor technology aids for disabled people, ie deaf.



Applications that dicptakan is the Isara. Application of this sign language dictionary-based NUI (Natural User Interface). With Kinect sensor and video images, the tool is designed for deaf people more engrossed in learning sign language.
"We are dedicated to deaf people who use conventional hard to learn cue cards and pictures, because the static," said one team member Isara, Muhammad Endri Irfanie, on the sidelines Penganugeraha Young Independent Technopreneur Award 2011 in JCC, Jakarta, Friday, 20 in January 2012.
This application utamaya a sensor device which is connected to a PC webcam. Then, users stood in front of the sensor within a distance of one meter. In the main menu screen will appear, which contains dictionaries, videos, and games are all based on gesture.
"Users will mimic the video images, will be seen whether the movement of the body is correct or not," he added.
Features guessing game contains a vocabulary that must be answered with a gesture. If the wrong or right will appear notifikasinya.
This application has been tested in 2011 at the Special School (SLB) 6 West Jakarta. According Endri, the response of students with disabilities are very positive. "They're really fun," he said.
Statistical features, to know how to learn sign language assessment for this, is there an increase or not.
Looking ahead, he and four colleagues will develop in the form of a sentence and make the video signal itself. Because until now the video obtained from Telkom.
This application, he continued to be developed in special schools and deaf community. He hopes the Ministry of Social Affairs and Education and Culture Kememterian can bekerjasana for the distribution of this application. "Let SLB does not pay," he said.
To be more exciting, it will soon upload this application in the social networking based platform. So that the blind can socialize with each other.
Of this work, they won the Best Winner Category I Information and Communication Technology Young Independent Technopreneur Award 2011. Prize of Rp 50 million, and the initial capital of Rp. 1.5 billion had the right to take home.
Endri and his friends were going to develop commercially the results of this work. He said the price of $ 500 thousand applications, while the sensor Rp 700 thousand.