DACTYLO
ASL Education through Virtual Reality
ORED Internal Grant
ORED Virtual Reality and ASL
Award Amount: $6,000
Spring 2020
Investigator: Dr. Darrin Griffin
Research Team: Sydney Burkhart; Dr. Fareed Bordbar; Elizabeth Tagg; Andrew Laningham
Project Goals: Using ASL is an embodied experience and the acquisition of this visual-spatial language requires interactive learning environments and applications. This embodied interactivity can be achieved with virtual reality environments and technology. This project aims to apply and measure degrees of motivation and learning/retention of ASL through VR for both hearing and deaf students at the elementary and college levels.
Spring 2020
Investigator: Dr. Darrin Griffin
Research Team: Sydney Burkhart; Dr. Fareed Bordbar; Elizabeth Tagg; Andrew Laningham
Project Goals: Using ASL is an embodied experience and the acquisition of this visual-spatial language requires interactive learning environments and applications. This embodied interactivity can be achieved with virtual reality environments and technology. This project aims to apply and measure degrees of motivation and learning/retention of ASL through VR for both hearing and deaf students at the elementary and college levels.
Alabama Power Undergraduate Research Grant
Award Amount: $5,000
Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Investigator: Sydney Burkhart
Software Developer: Christopher Trinh, Boston University
Mentor: Dr. Darrin Griffin
Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Investigator: Sydney Burkhart
Software Developer: Christopher Trinh, Boston University
Mentor: Dr. Darrin Griffin
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Demonstration of Dactylo Software
Research Team
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Sydney Burkhart, Undergraduate Researcher
Email: smburkhart1@crimson.ua.edu Hometown: Dublin, Ohio Major/Minor: Communicative Disorders/Communication Studies Research Interests: American Sign Language (ASL) Fareed Bordbar, PhD, Post-Doctoral Researcher
Email: fbordbar@ua.edu Hometown: Tehran, Iran Education: Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, University of Alabama; M.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Research Interests: Educational/Psychological Assessment & Evaluation, Applied Statistics, Intuitive Learning/processing Elizabeth Tagg, Project Coordinator
Email: eptagg@crimson.ua.edu Hometown: Lindale, Texas Major/Minor: Communication Studies/Religious Studies Research Interests: Nonverbal communication, Deception Andrew Laningham, Administrative Researcher
Email: ajlaningham@crimson.ua.edu Hometown: Locust Fork, AL Education: BA in Communication Studies, University of Alabama Research Interests: Deception, Interpersonal Communication Darrin Griffin, Ph.D., Project Advisor/Mentor
Email: djgriffin1@ua.edu Hometown: Austin, Texas Education: Ph.D. in Communication, SUNY Buffalo; MA in Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin Research Interests: Deaf Culture, Deception, Interpersonal Communication, |