Figure  16:  Test  Environment.  

Participants  tested  individually  and  each  session  lasted  15-­‐30  minutes.    During  the  

user  test,  participants  viewed  animations  of  ASL  signs.  During  each  session  the  participant  

watched  short  clips  depicting  the  combination  of  nonmanual  signals  listed  in  Table  3.    

Participants  were  informed  that  they  should  watch  each  animation  carefully  and  that  they  

could  watch  an  animation  as  many  times  as  they  wanted.      

Field  tests  had  indicated  that  a  sentence  presented  in  isolation  did  not  contain  

enough  information  in  order  for  a  Deaf  person  to  form  an  opinion  (Toro,  2011).    The  

interpreters  and  field  testers  suggested  prefacing  each  animation  with  a  short,  neutral  

sentence  establishing  its  context.  For  example,  the  first  animation  displayed,  “How  many  

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