a investigation of cisco technologies & access solutions
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A Investigation of Cisco Technologies & Access Solutions
October 25, 2010
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Purpose of Today’s Presentation
• Provide an overview of the plan of work for the upcoming year
• Involve NTID-RIT-Rochester community in the project
• Collect names and email addresses of interested persons
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Cisco and RIT/NTID
• Cisco has supported RIT Information Science and computer programs
• Jim Ebenhoch and NTID past president Hurwitz visited Cisco, with introductions to Cisco’s Accessibility, Compliance and Certification office by Len Mudrock ’84 who is a senior software engineer at Cisco
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Proposal
• Three strands• One year effort• Establish our understanding and areas where we
can contribute to Cisco product development• Development of position papers and a call for
further research• Deaf perspective
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Strands of R&D
• Provide Cisco with a deaf perspective on their products and the services they support
• Three strands– 911-411-211 Communication– Avatars– TelePresence
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Award
• From the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, following the recommendation of the Cisco Accessibility Team
• To the NTID Center on Access first year of what is anticipated to be a multi-year effort
• Approximately $65,000 cash, and $35,000 equipment
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But…
• TelePresence equipment donation was upped to the equivalent of $300,000!– One 65” HD screen– Three 65” HD screens– System installation and
furniture
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General Structure of Work• Form teams of RIT/NTID, local and national
experts• Conduct a literature review to understand issues• Produce “White Paper” and disseminate for
comment• Convene meeting(s) and focus groups• Revise “White Paper”• Produce final recommendations
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911-411-211 Communication• Project Team– Bill Clymer, Project Leader– Gail Hyde, Project Coordinator– Kelly Masters, Focus Group and Evaluation
• RIT/NTID experts• External experts• Cisco experts
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Issues• Access to Emergency Information and Services
through 9-1-1 emergency public safety answering points (PSAP’s) through receipt of text and video
• Identify barriers and offer solutions• Next generation 9-1-1 communication• Recognize the “community” of interested persons• Fail safe technology that emergency responders,
telecommunication companies, equipment companies and users can accept
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Major Tasks• Develop set of issues from literature• Convene focus groups at RIT – Policy– Technology– Users
• Literature review & “White paper”• Post and collect comments• Review and comment by experts• Publish final report
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Signing Avatar• Project Team– Joe Geigel, Project Co- Leader‐– Gary Behm, Project Co- Leader‐– Gail Hyde/Bill Clymer, Project Coordination– Kelly Masters, Focus Group Expert and Writer
• RIT/NTID experts• External experts• Cisco experts
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Signing Avatar
• Goal is to explore:– Possibility of signing avatars, guided by voice-to-text
or other input processes, to be used effectively for signing communications support (over videophone, TelePresence or conferencing systems)
– Similar to what is provided by live, professional sign language interpreters.
Signing Avatar• An avatar is a computer
representation of a person in the form of a three-dimensional model used in virtual space.
• Signing avatar – use of a 3D avatar for displaying signed messages.
http://www.vcom3d.com/vault_files/making_forest_asl/
Applications• Automated sign language translation in public
spaces• Education• Remote sign language
support– Virtual spaces– Teleconferencing
http://www.visicast.co.uk/demo/tessa/tessa_demo.htm
Idealized Signing Avatar System
Speech to text
Speech to text Text to SLText to SL SL to
gesturesSL to
gestures
Motion captureMotion capture
Live interpreter
audio
text Sign language
gestures
gestures
AVATAR
Expertise Required• Sign Language / Linguistics• Current signing Avatar systems• Speech to text• 3D Graphics / Animation– Motion capture (body and hand)– Facial analysis, modeling, and animation
• Deaf communities – Cyber/virtual – Educational
Deliverables• “White Paper”– State of the art– Future possibilities– Identify key questions and challenges– Recommendations
• Focus Group Meeting– Discussion among experts in areas previously listed– Refine “White Paper” based on discussions
TelePresence Evaluation• Goal is to explore:– Possibilities and applications of TelePresence to
support communication: • in instructional, laboratory and social environments for
students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
• of closed caption, presentation, signing avatars, social networking, and others.
TelePresence• Telepresence refers to a set
of technologies which allows a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location.
• TelePresence makes remote or distant people appear or feel present and part of the local activity by using telematics technology.
http://matthewwall.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c68d853ef011168a477f0970c-800wi
Applications• Education
– Classroom and Laboratory• Direct• Indirect
– Tutoring / Mentoring• Remotely (different colleges)
– Job Interview• Remotely
• Social– Networking
• Communication Support– Remote Sign language
• virtual spaces– Teleconferencing– Closed Captions– Others?
TelePresence Network System
Expertise Required• Instructors for Deaf / Hard-of-Hearing people• Deaf / Hard-of-Hearing Students (direct and indirect)• Sign Language / Linguistics• 3D Graphics / Animation / Avatar
– Motion capture– Facial analysis, modeling, and animation
• Communication Support– Closed captions / presentation– Other
• Deaf Communities – Cyber / virtual – Educational
Deliverables• White Paper– State of the art– Future possibilities– Key questions and challenges identified– Recommendations
• Focus Group Meeting– Discussion among experts– White paper refined, based on discussions
Team• Gary Behm, NTID • Wendy Dannels, NTID• Kelly Masters, outside consultant
• Gail Hyde / Bill Clymer, NTID
If interested in participating in evaluation, send a note to Gary Behm: [email protected]