Acknowledgements
AuslanBotAI acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which Auslan is used across Australia, and pays respect to Elders past, present, and emerging. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded.
We acknowledge the Deaf Auslan-using community — its leaders, elders, teachers and storytellers, past, present, and future — whose language this is. Auslan belongs to Deaf Australians. AuslanBotAI is a humble learning aid. If you are serious about learning Auslan, please connect with your local Deaf community and learn directly from Deaf teachers.
Sign data and videos are sourced from Auslan Signbank (T. Johnston et al., Macquarie / Monash University) under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, and aggregated via Find Sign. We thank Trevor Johnston, Adam Schembri, and the researchers who documented Auslan, and Phoenix and the Find Sign team for the open data platform.
Pedagogy follows evidence from cognitive science: FSRS spaced repetition (Woźniak / Open Spaced Repetition), the testing effect and desirable difficulties (Bjork), and receptive-before-productive vocabulary acquisition research. Foundational linguistics from Johnston & Schembri, Australian Sign Language (Auslan): An introduction to sign language linguistics (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
AuslanBotAI is free and always will be. Source: auslanbot.ai. This is a non-commercial educational tool and makes no claim to replace Deaf-led instruction.