Projects - Overview
Here we present our research projects (some only in German). This list is being updated continuously.
(Listed alphabetically in the menu bar.)
Current projects
- (2025-2029) VISTA-SL: Visual Interactive System for Teaching and Assessment of Sign Languages (VISTA-SL)
- (since 2024) Naming the world: Semantic associations and form-meaning mappings in the mental lexicon across sign languages (SemaSign)
- (since 2024) Student research project: interTiZNA - Interpreting in a Deaf-inclusive Emergency Room
- (since 2023) Coactivating the difference in the verbal domain of German Sign Language: A developmental perspective at signers processing signing and reading (CoDiPro)
- (since 2022) Iconic metaphors and the gesture-sign interface in German Sign Language – corpus data meet experiments (IMaGeS, DFG project)
- (since 2022) Exploring the limits of simultaneity: Encoding caused change-of-state events with classifier constructions in German Sign Language (DFG project)
- (since 2008) DGS-Korpus
Completed projects
- (2023-2024) Student project TiZNA - Deaf inclusive emergency department
- (2021-2023) Easier
- (2017/04-2021) (In)visible Life Stories - Creation of a digital archive of elderly signers’ linguistic and cultural heritage (Pro*Niedersachsen)
- (2016/04-2021) The Sign Hub
- (2019/01-2019/12) Signseeing Tour- A Webpage based Hamburg City Tour in German Sign Language
- (2019/01-2019/12) Gender in German Sign Language
- (2015/09-2018/08) Developing Deaf Interpreting
- (2008-2017) Taubwissen
- (2011/01-2015/12) GeR-DGS Common European Framework of Reference for German Sign Language
- (2012/01-2015/12) PRO-Sign
- (2011/01-2014/12) COST SignGram
- (2010/01-2012/12) EuroSign Interpreters
- (2009/01-2012/12) Dicta-Sign
- (2010/01-2010/12) Sustainability for elCA (eLearning "Constructed Action in German Sign Language)
- (2009/01-2009/12) Blended Learning - “Gesture and Sign” project unit as part of an interdisciplinary seminar
- (2005/01-2008/03) The Grammar of German Sign Language from the Perspective of Deaf Experts
- (2003/05-2005/04) ProViL – Progression in Visual Learning of Sign Language
- (2003) The Company 2
- (2001) The Company
- (1999) DaZiel
- (1999) DGS-Basic Course Levels I and II
- (1998) The Vocabulary Book - A General Dictionary of Sign Language
- (1993-2010) Technical Sign Language Dictionaries
- (2010, published) Technical Dictionary on Gardening and Landscaping
- (2007, published) Technical Dictionary on Health and Care
- (2003, published) Technical Dictionary on Social Work/Social Pedagogy
- (2000, published) Technical Dictionary on Housekeeping
- (1998, published) Technical Dictionary on Carpentry/Joinery
- (1996, published) Technical Dictionary on Psychology
- (1993, published) Technical Dictionary on Computer Technology
- (1992, not completed) Technical Dictionary on Linguistics