Motionsavvy UNI Tablet Research Paper

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Joseph R. Sewell
ASL Block 3
Ms. Swag
15 May, 2015
UNI Tablet For many decades, centuries even, communication with the hearing has always been a major problem for deaf people. However, a certain invention is going to be in the process of breaking that communication barrier. It is called the MotionSavvy UNI tablet, design by a company called MotionSavvy, of which whose six-person team who came up with the idea, is deaf. The company has a deaf branch, who developed the prototype over a year ago. The founders of this new technology consist of Ryan Hait-Campbell, Wade Kellard, Jordan Stemper and Alex Opalka. This tablet has the ability to visually identify American Sign Language and convert it to readable text. It can also identify speech and …show more content…

Although that may be true, MotionSavvy is predicted to blow away the both the deaf and hearing by closing the communication gap between both communities to each other. It will supposedly usher in a new era of communication and make things such as business negotiations and presentations much easier. Hait-Campbell says that they planned the idea several years ago after he’d read about the leap motion magazine. He then met Opalka who had a similar idea and then they also met and teamed up with Stemper and Kellard. The producers of the tech even admitted that it would be very difficult to incorporate all signs and the variations of signs and the many different dialects and completely different styles of sign language. However, they say, as of now, the most important thing they need is capital, a source of funding. But they do have a built in system to create your own sign, or adjust a sign to your specific style. They call it Sign Builder tech, which is gesture recognizing technology that’ll remember your personal created or accented signs. You can set this setting up from the very beginning or you can take some time to get used to the technology before completely customizing it. The MotionSavvy tablet has even been named one of the top 25 inventions by Time Magazine. The developers said that they weren’t expecting that and that it was a big deal for them. From that award they’ve had a tremendous amount of recognition and growing media popularity for their

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