SSMS

What does SSMS mean? Sign Short Message Service.
SSMS is an android mobile messaging app that allows you to exchange sign language and plain text messages. It is a communication and educational mobile app based on the sign language alphabet.

To provide a more cost effective communication method for people that are deaf or hard-of-hearing and to bridge the communication gap between the Deaf and Hearing cultures.

SSMS was designed and developed on the basis of a research study at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. Professor Darelle van Greunen was supervising the research. The prototype was tested with Deaf users in South Africa while development was done in Cyprus.

We are 2 brothers (fiishydesigns.com). Our studies were in the field of Human-computer interaction. Our passion is usability, user experience and accessibility. Our aim with SSMS is to provide a useful and usable app. More will follow.