BUILDING E-HEALTH APPLICATIONS FOR DEAF PEOPLE - VIDEO AND ANIMATED AVATAR PARALLEL TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT COMPARISON
BUILDING E-HEALTH APPLICATIONS FOR DEAF PEOPLE - VIDEO AND ANIMATED AVATAR PARALLEL TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT COMPARISON

Summary/Abstract: The work presented in this paper offers answers to what are the appropriate steps and challenges in the constructive technical development process of an e-health parallel application designed for deaf people both in avatar and video technology. The article describes the technical steps to develop a parallel medical education system for deaf people in preventive dentistry. An important specific particularity of this type of applications is that the medical information and concepts are translated for the deaf users in sign language by an avatar. The Video Avatar displays recorded human operators and the Animated Avatar displays an animated figure. Another significant difference that influences the structure of both applications is that the two collections of data are stored in different formats. This research objective is part of a larger PhD research goal: the comparative analysis between video technology and animated technology used in e-health applications for deaf people with avatars. The general parallel comparative study starts with the project phase, continues with implementation and results analysis phases. The paper firstly reviews previous related work on this project in building the parallel collection of data and the comparative architecture&design models of both type ofapplications. The current paper mainly covers comparative detailed descriptions related to the process of constructive technical development for both applications. The format of the files, the software to develop the applications and the adjusting editing steps for the inside content are presented in detail. The final part of the paper concludes with the results of a comparative analysis for this phase and presents the next steps to for the future research of a complex project.

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