Take a moment and imagine this....
The alarm clock hits 6 am. The bed begins to vibrate and Bob responds by signing "finish." The bed suddenly stops vibrating. Next, Bob softly signs "turn the light on" and the lamp on the nightstand followed his instructions exactly; the light bulb lit up gently. Finally, Bob signed, "coffee" and went to bathroom to take a shower and get dressed. By the time, he was clean, dressed up, and came downstairs, a fresh pot of coffee brewed was ready for him.
How "Star Trek"-like would that be; allowing the computer to have such an ability to understand American Sign Language or any other form of body language? Is it feasible? Is it even possible?
Well, I think I can shine some light to this. I love reading Popular Science and I stumbled onto this article. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-11/video-microsoft-demos-next-gen-computer-motion-sensing-and-eye-tracking?page=.
Microsoft is developing a new motion sensing and eye-tracking interface. This interface will be able to read your body language / gestures and do what you want it to do.
In this example, the man is giving a presentation and there is an object on the screen. He made a circular motion with his finger around the object. As result, the computer circled the object, but that's not all. The man stared at the object for an extra second and the computer acknowledged him by automatically zooming into the circled object.
I personally don't think it'll be possible in our lifetime to have a computer to understand American Sign Language or any other Sign Languages, but I will NOT be surprised if they do develop technology where it'll understand the basic signs of ASL within our lifetime... What do you think?
Do you think we can do it?????
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