Resumen
. Non-verbal communication is an important part of everyday interactions and human-computer interaction. Vision techniques and instrumented
gloves for sign language recognition are commonly used, but these are often expensive and considered invasive to the user. This research proposes the recognition of words from the American Sign Language (ASL) using the SCEPTRE database acquired by two Myoelectrical bracelets. Computational intelligence techniques were used to optimize the number of attributes using Principal Component
Analysis (PCA) and a classifier based on Neural Networks (NN). The results
suggest that it is possible to reduce the attributes using PCA without significantly
losing the quality in classification. This allows faster processing, a convenient
feature for classifiers for real-time SL recognition.