{"id":2705,"date":"2018-12-04T16:47:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2018-12-04T16:49:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:49:20","slug":"sign-language-glove-wins-santander-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2705","title":{"rendered":"Sign language glove wins Santander award"},"content":{"rendered":"

A smart glove designed by a Goldsmiths, University of London student has received a top prize at Santander\u2019s annual ceremony for student entrepreneurs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

B\"\"<\/a>rightSign Glove, which translates hand gestures into speech and text, won the People\u2019s Choice audience vote at the\u00a0Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards.<\/p>\n

Hadeel Ayoub, PhD candidate in the Department of Computing<\/a>, began developing the glove four years ago during her MA Computational Arts<\/a>\u00a0at Goldsmiths, and has since attracted international media attention and a raft of technology awards.<\/p>\n

The glove is equipped with multiple sensors and machine learning software to enable individuals who use sign language as their primary language to communicate through text or digital voice directly, without the need for a translator.<\/p>\n

BrightSign Glove was voted by the audience at the Santander awards event as having the greatest social, community, and environmental impact, and won a prize of \u00a37,500.<\/p>\n

Goldsmiths MA Social Entrepreneurship<\/a> student Jack O\u2019Donoghue from the Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship<\/a> was a runner up, having reached the Santander finals with his project \u2018Of The Ilk\u2019 – an organic cotton-based re-usable food wrapping developed as an alternative to cling-film.<\/p>\n

Hadeel and her development team aim to make BrightSign available to everyone who needs it, at an accessible price. The product is still in development, and eagerly awaited by a fast-growing list of schools and parents. With 70 million sign language users globally, and 90% of deaf children being born to hearing parents, the glove has the potential to revolutionise communication across barriers.<\/p>\n

Santander Universities Entrepreneurship winners were announced by Nathan Bostock, CEO of Santander UK, and received their awards from Ana Bot\u00edn, Group Executive Chair, Santander Group.<\/p>\n

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This post was originally written by Sarah Cox for Goldsmiths News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A smart glove designed by a Goldsmiths, University of London student has received a top prize at Santander\u2019s annual ceremony for student entrepreneurs. BrightSign Glove, which translates hand gestures into speech and text, won the People\u2019s Choice audience vote at the\u00a0Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards. Hadeel Ayoub, PhD candidate in the Department of Computing, began developing … Continue reading Sign language glove wins Santander award<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[110,115,106,108],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}