Development of Android-Based Interactive Multimedia Using Total Communication Approach to Introduce Sign Language for Deaf Communities

摘要

Sign language is a language that makes use of hand, finger and lip movements to communicate. Sign language is widely used in the education of the Extraordinary School (SLB), especially for the deaf and hard of ways that have shortcomings in listening and speaking. Because it has a lack of hearing and speaking, the deaf and underprivileged children are lacking in the vocabulary. Multimedia role is very important especially in the field of education. One of them is a sign language recognition media for deaf. The research aims to develop a multimedia interactive sign Language Introduction to the deaf using a total communication approach based on Android. Thus, the application can be utilized by deaf persons outside school hours. The method used in the application development is the MDLC (Multimedia Development Life Cycle) method of Luther Sutopo in 2010. Some phases of this method are concept, design, material collecting, assembly, testing, and distribution. Based on the results of the beta test done by the dissemination of the questionnaire against teachers who handle deaf children in the SLB Kartini Batam, interactive multimedia application of sign language recognition for the deaf child of Class 1 SDLB can help Add a child's vocabulary. The results gained from the tests conducted by researchers were divided into three aspects, 88.3% for the ease of user aspect, 82.5% for the aspect of the view and 82.5% for the educational aspect. All three aspects of the test results belong to the very good interval category.