A platform has been created that teaches sign language when you buy coffee
Can you imagine being able to order your coffee in Mexican Sign Language (LSM)? Irvin Hussein López Nava and his team of researchers from the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (Cicese) created software that acts as a platform that teaches sign language while buying coffee.
How Sordbo, the Sign Language platform, works
The tool, called Sordbo, seeks to reduce communication barriers, thus representing a significant advance in the inclusion of people with hearing disabilities.
The creation of this platform is the result of a collaboration between the Department of Computer Science of CICESE and the Regional Association of the Deaf of Ensenada (ARSE).
The platform offers two views: one for customers and one for administrators. In the customer view, you can browse the menu, add products to your shopping cart, and learn how to order in LSM through videos.
This option allows you to practice sign language with the deaf staff at the café. Additionally, the business can manage products, sales, and reports through this system.
This technology seeks to break down communication barriers and bring the deaf community closer to commercial establishments, creating a more fluid and respectful interaction.
Sordbo is registered in the Public Registry of Copyright, and CICESE granted ARSE a license to use the software to be implemented in a cafeteria run by the association.
This platform was developed by Irvin Hussein López Nava, from the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (Cicese) and Alan Montesinos Scott, a student at the Autonomous University of Baja California, together with the Regional Association of the Deaf of Ensenada.
