Mushir: An Arabic Edutainment Application For Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children Using Real-time Image Processing

Education is an essential stage of children lives. Children with special nee ds (deaf and hard hearing) may encounter challenges and need more assist ant in their education journey. Recent technology could be utilized to impr ove the deaf and hard hearing children learning experience. For these reaso ns, this paper proposed "Mushir" an Arabic application that targets deaf an d hard of hearing children from four to seven years old. "Mushir" aims to i ncrease child knowledge and enthusiasm for learning letters, numbers, sha pes, and colors in Arabic sign language. In addition, the child can examine the knowledge he achieves by playing two different games. The first gam e is a multiple-choices questions. The second game utilized image processi ng technology by applying real-time processing for the camera senses. In t his game the child will be asked to open the camera and indicate a movem ent of his/her hand in sign language.