@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/13500,
	  title     = {The Effect of Ambient Occlusion Shading on Perception of Sign Language Animations},
	  author    = {Nicoletta Adamo-Villani and  Joe Kasenga and  Tiffany Jen and  Bryan Colbourn},
	  country	= {},
	  institution	= {},
	  abstract     = {The goal of the study reported in the paper was to
determine whether Ambient Occlusion Shading (AOS) has a significant effect on users' perception of American Sign Language (ASL) finger spelling animations. Seventy-one (71) subjects
participated in the study; all subjects were fluent in ASL. The participants were asked to watch forty (40) sign language animation
clips representing twenty (20) finger spelled words. Twenty (20) clips did not show ambient occlusion, whereas the other twenty (20) were
rendered using ambient occlusion shading. After viewing each animation, subjects were asked to type the word being finger-spelled and rate its legibility. Findings show that the presence of AOS had a significant effect on the subjects perception of the signed words.
Subjects were able to recognize the animated words rendered with AOS with higher level of accuracy, and the legibility ratings of the animations showing AOS were consistently higher across subjects.},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering},
	  volume    = {5},
	  number    = {11},
	  year      = {2011},
	  pages     = {1470 - 1474},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/13500},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/59},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 59, 2011},
	}