Oh man, not again. And this one got published in @NatureElectron.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-020-0428-6.epdf?sharing_token=eCFYFpcWY-Q-94DJm8h2zdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OXq-y35V0iSkzObpdnGJsI9a-xadw9Eukvh6d2WxovmcfWhh_0VHQBebLqmSGLzrVKJFDH6vzCFCt8BmgG522ujSAYy3udGyYoHUB2EQcRKUMvPhYY5Q3wt4RDvsp9xgk55h5nWxKrWCO7aUz5VcDYWeHvhI4qzz8ZL97OVPfRPaOK60j8zQxj4MouUpB1uS3sSV4Y2lC2sMic7OysZOo-A0lIqSmtdI1vWoyhZuUTY0v3JIJTqbM_4YpdfiAlNyqQQUz7UM9fQ27EEShBPbzu">https://www.nature.com/articles/...

Once again, tech saviors are helping Deaf people by ... building tech that (if it actually works at the level of translation, which it doesn& #39;t) only addresses the hearing person& #39;s needs.

On a previous go round with this, I had the privilege of working with my colleagues Lance Forshay and Kristi Winter (both Deaf) on this open letter:

http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/SignAloudOpenLetter.pdf">https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/p...

We lay out in that letter how these kinds of projects instantiated audism and cultural appropriation.

Lance has collected a bunch of resources here: https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/uw-asl/home/open-letter">https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/...

What would it take to get to a society where engineers stop using signed language as toys to show off motion detection systems? How do we fix the engineering (including ML) curriculum to prevent this?