Help people who need help. Make their life better.

Help people who need help. Make their life better.

Augmented Reality is a girl with strong social responsibility. I am sure about it after seeing her efforts to improve education by teaching young kids in an innovative way. This time, what she showed to me further proved her warm heart.

With the ability to bridge the gap between the digital and the physical, AR is now trying to bridge the gap between the worlds of the deaf and the hearing, through one of her ‘magic’ tools – DEAF MAGAZINE.

Deaf Magazine aims to improve awareness of sign language in Germany and uses augmented reality to bridge the gap between spoken/written language and sign language. The articles have an AR component with video content that visualizes what is on each page.

Through the use of mixed media and augmented reality technology – through its own augmented reality app, the magazine links the written language directly with the German sign language and makes it easier to his readers to affiliate information and allows to a better understanding of the written language.

The magazine includes articles about events and trends of German sign language, special personalities, news and opinions about accessibility in Germany and information about the deaf culture of other countries. The articles are separated in short sections, which are then extended to printable pictures and videos with subtitles, enhancing the experience for readers.

Deaf Magazine is created by a German design group called Morphoria. The team points out that this application works both ways: Not only can the deaf learn new words in sign, but the magazine can also help teach those who don’t understand sign at all how to speak it. As far as applications to augmented reality go, this one is particularly good, because it takes something static (a magazine page) and creates a better learning experiencing by animating it.

Using innovation to improve everyday life of people, especially those who are in trouble – this is a right way in which technology should be applied. Augmented Reality is doing well on that, and on this way, I will be always with her.

(http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/10/deaf-magazine-uses-augmented-reality-to-teach-readers-sign-language/)