Current Projects
The DHH Cyber Community group is actively pursuing the following projects:
Research Projects
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Technology in classroom can better include deaf and hard of hearing students. This research involves development and testing of a classroom platform for deaf and hard of hearing students to access remote interpreters and captioners, avoid visual dispersion, and facilitate interaction in the classroom.
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We are creating an online video forum to facilitate discussion about signing for science, technnology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics. There is a lack of standardized signs for these topics and we believe they should be developed from the bottom up, i.e. students, teachers, interpreters, and linguists should be involved in the design process of new signs. This multimedia forum will discussion across the country and across displines.
Educational Projects
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During the summer of 2008, the University of Washington is hosting 10 deaf and hard of hearing students who are graduating from high school and/or entering their first or second year of college. Students will take introductory computer programming classes and a university-level animation class resulting in their own animated short. During the academy, we will also evaluation and improve our classroom technology.
Workshops
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June 25-27, 2008 the first annual DHH Cyber-Community Workshop will take place at Rochester Institute of Technology, home of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. The goal is to energize the DHH Cyber Community members including students, interpreters, captioners, sign language linguistic researchers, educational technology researchers, and cyber infrastructure experts. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
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