ITECDEAF – TECHNICAL GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS IN LIBRAS WITH DYNAMIC INTERFACE FOR DEAF

Abstract

The deaf community has conquered rights in education and with the increase of deaf people into universities, there is a need to develop new signs in LIBRAS for technical terms from different areas of knowledge. This work aims to present iTecDeaf, a technical glossary with a dynamic and bilingual interface for the deaf, based on Vygotsky's theory that emphasized the use of signs and symbols for the individual's cognitive development. It is characterized by the use of videos, animations in sign languages and fingerspelling in written form, providing relevant and easy-to-understand content for it is users. In validation, the predictive evaluation was used to identify problems in the interface and in the design, conducted by five experts with knowledge about the deaf public, in which a checklist, of ten questions, was applied as an evaluation instrument. iTecDeaf showed a positive result of 86% and proved to be a learning-intended artifact that enables signs through a differentiated interface with the perspective of contributing to the academic activities of deaf students, interpreters, and teachers.