MALAYSIAN SIGN LANGUAGE FLASH CARD MOBILE APPLICATION

Malaysian particularly is lacking the awareness to communicate with speech/hearing impaired OKU. The purpose of this project is to develop a mobile application intended to aid users to learn and assist communication using Malaysian Sign Language. The current problem faced by current solutions that aims to connect the communication gap between speech/hearing impaired OKU and hearing people such as through books and the internet is in the fact that they are not practically available and readily-accessible in certain circumstances. Classes and translator will cost a fortune to acquire; therefore, they are a rather undesirable alternative to improve communication between speech/hearing impaired OKU and hearing people as well as aiding the learning process of Malaysian Sign Language. The proposed system had developed to include a solution to all these problems. For one, being a mobile application allows for it to be readily-accessible and available at all times. It does not require any connection to the internet which can be limited in certain places or times. The application would allow hearing people to translate the words they wish to communicate to the speech/hearing impaired OKU as a hand gesture for the person to perform. The prototype had been developed using the Netbeans IDE (7.1.1) with Android SDK plug-ins due to the system being targeted for the current time being at the Android platform. The basic requirements of the system were based on the research conducted during this study to determine what criteria are to be studied and implemented in the application.