IJSRST207352 | Accepted : 25 May 2020 | Published : 02 June 2020 | May-June-2020 [ 7 (3) : 285-297 ]
© 2020 | International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology
IJSRST | Volume 7 | Issue 3 | Print ISSN: 2395-6011 | Online ISSN: 2395-602X
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRST207352
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Designing and Developing A Smart Application for Improving the
Communication Between the Deaf, Dumb People and Society
Fatimah Mohammed Al Nas, Sajidah Hassan Sahwan, Fatimah Saeed Alali, Muneerah Alshabanah, Daniah
Alrajhi, Mutasem K. Alsmadi, Ibrahim Almarashdeh and Mohammed Fahed Tayfour
Department of Management Information Systems, College of Applied Studies and Community Service,
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
ABSTRACT
Technology and Science have made Human life addictive to luxury but still there exists poor people
who are trying to find innovative ways which make the communication process easier. Regarding to
the World Health Organization, about 1 million people are dumb and 300 million are deaf in the
world. Whereas; the communication is one of the most important issues for deaf and dumb people.
This work aims to propose a smart application named "Jusoor" to improve the communication process
and bridge the gap between the deaf, dumb People, and society. The proposed application provides the
user with a dictionary that contains many vocabularies with videos explaining the way that the word
is indicated, the most important sentences used in public places (markets, parks, restaurants, etc.),
Emergency calls that enable recognizing the type assistance needed with the feature of locating the
person which makes it easier to reach and provide the assistance, and service of communication with
sign language experts. The proposed work was analyzed using the Unified Modeling Language (UML),
Firebase, XML and Java programming languages.
Keywords: Deaf, Dumb, Android Application, Sign Language and Unified Modeling Language.
I. INTRODUCTION
The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that
about 300 million are deaf, 1 million are dumb and
many more are suffering from one or more of the
aforementioned physical disabilities. The
developments in Science and Technology have
reached to great heights in making the Human Life
easier and comfortable within a short span of time [1-
10].
During the few last years, many technologies have
made our life more comfortable and easier, even
without moving our bodies to do a task. The
physically disabled people are part of our community
who are deprived from the advancements of
Technology and Science since they need it to feel
that they are the part of the society and they can
walk hand in hand and participate with others in the
community development. Also, Communication is a
important issue in the human life especially the
people who are Deaf or Dumb [1-4, 6, 11].
This work aims to propose a smart application named
"Jusoor" to bridge the gap and improve the
communication process between the deaf, dumb
People, and society. The proposed application
provides the user with a dictionary that contains
many vocabularies with videos explaining the way
that the word is indicated, the most important
sentences used in public places (markets, parks,
restaurants, etc.), Emergency calls that enable