The Product

In order to research American Sign Language (ASL) it is beneficial to be able to quickly search various keywords or phrases and see it being spoken. This product is an improvement upon a design that was first made by another student. Providing more privacy by introducing a login page, an improved and more modern user interface, and lenient searching making sure more relevant results are shown. This product has been dockerized in order to easily host the website on a server. Several smaller features are also included such as being able to download captions, the video itself, or the movements from the speaker which can be useful in researching ASL.

The Customer

Our client is Prof. T. Verhoef from LIACS. She proposed the implementation of the new website as she sees in it the value of making the data-gathering process more efficient for sign language researchers. We scheduled meetings via email with her first to get a proper view of the desired product, and next when we would be able to show visible improvements to our design. The cooperation went very smooth.

  • "I learned a lot from handling the programming and non-programming tasks. Both have been really educational for me."
  • "Thanks to my amazing teammates, we conquered most challenges, and it is really nice to see that the new functions are blending well with the new design."
The Team

Our team consists of people with various backgrounds. We split up responsibilities and tasks according to who would be the best fit for each task. During our scrum meetings we divided our tasks and reassigned people where extra help was needed. The scrum master of our group led the meetings making sure we discussed everything and to get proper feedback. During these meetings we also discussed what obstacles we encountered and how to prevent those in the future. We used a WhatsApp group for quick back-and-forths between our group members and had larger weekly meetings to stay up-to-date on eachother's progress. We all worked evenly split over the project, everyone in their own area of expertise.

The Technologies