A wearable device is being developed that will help people who use sign language communicate with those who don't understand it, according to the Daily Mail.
Developers at Texas A&M University are working on a new tool that will supposedly use a system of sensors to track movements made in the hands and wrists.
The device, which appears to strap to the arm, converts the message into text and sends it to a connected smart phone or computer.
Not only does the device latch on to hand movements, but it can also tap into the electromyography signals, also known as EMG signals, that are made by muscle movement, according to Reuters.
Developing the device for real world use will be a delicate balance of fine tuning for the inventors, who will need to calibrate the sensitivity and tracking just right.
"We decode the muscle activities we are capturing from the wrist. Some of it is coming from the fingers indirectly because if I happen to keep my fist like this versus this, the muscle activation is going to be a little different," said Texas A&M's Roozbeh Jafari, professor of biomedical engineering. "When you wear the system for the first time the system operates with some level of accuracy. But as you start using the system more often, the system learns from your behavior and it will adapt its own learning models to fit you."
