From the stop sign to the laugh-cry emoji, symbols play a critical and ubiquitous role in everyday life. A forthcoming exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, “Give Me a Sign: The ...

Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time hand ...

At the very beginning of the “Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols” (1972), the book’s author and one of the era’s most accomplished industrial designers, Henry ...

The ability to speak is one of the essential characteristics that distinguishes humans from other animals. Many people would probably intuitively equate speech and language. However, cognitive science ...

The coffee chain has more than 3,800 stores in the country; the move is part of its ongoing efforts to get closer to local communities. "Starbucks China will continue to build a different kind of ...

Adam Schembri works for La Trobe University, and is a member of the Victorian Auslan Training Consortium. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Before we answer that question, it ...

Starbucks China is to open its first store with sign language capability in Beijing on Friday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Starbucks China is to open its first store with sign language ...

Making use of sleek black gloves, sophisticated sensors, a microcontroller and a smartphone, students from the Ukraine have created a device that translates sign language into speech. Called “Enable ...

07:31, Wed, Sep 23, 2020 Updated: 07:31, Wed, Sep 23, 2020 The zodiac symbols are not to be confused with their glyphs. The symbols are the animal symbols for example the ram or the bull, and glyphs ...