Leap Language

Inspiration

One of our group members had a childhood friend who was deaf. He was thinking of ways to improve communication between those who are hearing-impaired and those who are not and that idea developed into this program.

How it works

Using a Leap Motion, you sign an American Sign Language letter and the program will print the character signed on-screen. It uses the Leap Motion's API to determine the shape the user's hands are in and determines the letter based on that.

Challenges I ran into

One of the challenges we ran into that we couldn't do anything about was the Leap Motion losing track of the user's fingers. It's a fairly uncommon occurrence and simply taking your hands away and re-adding them is enough to fix it.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We're really proud of getting the gesture recognition to be as efficient as it is. We tried to get it to be as fast as possible so to minimize confusion on whether it recognized the letter or not.