This isn’t the first technology designed to interpret finger gestures into sign language. However, existing devices tend to be bulky, making them difficult to use. Paper co-author Hyunchul Lim ...

Though people think of sign language as using just your hand and fingers, facial expressions and head movements also play a role in communicating with the Deaf community. Toward that end ...

Case in point, members of the deaf community are now taking advantage of modern headsets' increasingly sophisticated hand tracking to use sign language in virtual reality. It's a compelling use ...

By Hannah Seo When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took one look at my tentative posture and held up some fingers.

The ASL alphabet only uses one hand for each letter. Some other sign languages, such as British Sign Language, use two hands for one letter. Fingerspelling (also called dactylology) is the use of ...

What they have discovered convinces them that Gargas’s hand stencils reflect a Stone Age sign language. If so, these patterns add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that Palaeolithic cave ...