ASL Pal, 2020.
ASL Pal is an app dedicated to empowering deaf individuals learning to read and better understand written language. One of the greatest challenges deaf individuals face when trying to learn to read is the inability to sound-out written text. ASL Pal considers this gap, by giving users the ability to translate English to ASL completely visually, allowing deaf folks of all reading and writing abilities a way to translate words they see every day into ASL.The app allows users to take photographs of words for translation, as well as a manual word-input translation feature. Users can save words that they frequently use, and study with flashcards that are generated from the words they’ve snapped with the app. There is even a word of the day feature! ASL Pal manages to expand but also streamline the process of learning to read, in an experience that is functional and educational, yet gamified and interactive.
Max Yun
B.A. Computer Science, 2020; B.S. Business Administration, 2020
Niki Zarkub
B.A. Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, 2020
Qihui Bao
M. Arch, 2020
Timothy Zhao
B.A. Computer Science, 2020