Technologies Applied to LIBRAS Teaching and Learning: A Systematic Mapping

• Venilton FalvoJr ICMC-USP
• Catherine Martins Falvo Universidade de Araraquara
• Lilian Passos Scatalon ICMC-USP
• Ellen Francine Barbosa ICMC-USP https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3275-2293

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/cbie.sbie.2020.812

Abstract

Considering the last census, it is estimated that Brazil has 9.7 millionpeople with hearing impairment (about 5.1% of the population). These peopleare potential users of the Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS), but only a portionof them will have access to literacy, due to national socioeconomic difficulties.On the other hand, the advent of technology has had a positive impact on tea-ching and learning dynamics. In this context, this work aims to obtain an over-view of the technological solutions that have been used in the teaching of signlanguages, with an emphasis on LIBRAS. To this end, we conducted a Systema-tic Mapping (SM), whose stage of manual search identified 46 primary studiesin Brazilian conferences, journals and magazines. In general, it results indicatethat the technologies have already been consistently contributing to the teachingof LIBRAS. Most studies have been published in the past 10 years, which sug-gests an emerging line of research. In this sense, different types of approacheswere identified, from analysis and design to the construction and validation oftechnological solutions.

Keywords: LIBRAS, Teaching, Learning

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