A Representation of Selected Nonmanual Signals in American Sign L - Part50

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CHAPTER

 4  –  RESULTS  
This  chapter  gives  the  results  of  the  user  test  at  Deaf  Nation  Expo.    The  raw  data  

from  the  experiment  is  in  Appendix  H.    The  following  is  a  discussion  of  the  user  reactions  to  

each  of  the  nine  test  animations.  

The  first  animation  depicted  the  WH  nonmanual  signal  and  happy  affect  (sentence  

1).  In  response  to  the  first  question,  participants  were  able  to  replicate  the  utterance  100%  

of  the  time.  Seventy  percent  rated  the  animation  as  clear  or  very  clear,  as  seen  in  Table  4.    

Participants  who  thought  the  animation  appeared  happy  outnumber  those  who  found  it  

unhappy  by  a  factor  of  6  to  1  (Table  5).    

12   10  
10   8  
8  
6  
6  
4  
4  
2   2  
0   0  
1   2   3   4   5   1   2   3   4   5  

     
Table  4:  Clarity  of  test  utterance  1   Table  5:  Emotion  of  test  utterance  1  

Test  participants  showed  even  more  consensus  when  viewing  the  animation  

depicting  the  WH  nonmanual  signal  and  angry  affect.    They  could  replicate  the  utterance  

100%  of  the  time.  Fifty-­‐five  percent  rated  the  animation  as  clear  or  very  clear  (Table  6).    

Eighty-­‐five  percent  correctly  identified  the  intended  emotional  state  (Table  7).    When  asked  

to  comment,  some  responses  were:  “She  looks  mean”,  “She  looks  angry”,  and  “Definitely  not  

nice.”  

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