SBIR/STTR Research Award
Mobile Signing Math Dictionaries with Mouth Morphemes for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Award amount
$74,847Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Education
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- VCOM3D INC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- 2012-03-31
- UEI
- P7MYG7JPFPZ2
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- 84.133S-1
Research abstract
Building on previous collaborations, Vcom3D and TERC develop and evaluate a Mobile Signing Math Pictionary (MSMP) that provides American Sign Language and Signed English definitions with human voice narration/lip-sync technology for Apple’s iPod Touch/iPad. Deaf and hard of hearing students lag behind their hearing counterparts not only in literacy subjects, but also in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The MSMP, in addition to animated signing, features the ability to include equations, charts, and visual representations of word problems that the animated character can refer to and describe in sign. The mobile version of the dictionary provides mobility and independence that leads to opportunity-based learning in classrooms, on field trips, or while studying anytime, anywhere.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Research funding history
67 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1997–2025). Reported award amounts total $20,904,646. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Education, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce, National Aeronautics and Space Administration