"Wallis suggested sign language GIFs in an initial brainstorm, which we immediately stuck with, as it's such a visually engaging language and would be well expressed in GIF form," Weber said.

"GIFs, as a visual format untethered from audio, makes them a perfect medium for sign language," Hilari Scarl, director and producer at Sign With Robert, told Mashable. "The GIF format has the ...

Giphy recently released a collection of GIFs featuring words in American Sign Language, Mashable reports.The 2,000-GIF library is meant to serve as a resource for people who want to learn sign ...

A GIF can be more than a well-timed punchline for a tweet or group chat. Now, the looping clips can be used to teach people new languages. As Mashable reports, GIF provider Giphy has launched a ...

Aside from adding a funny spin to a message, GIFs can now teach you sign language. Giphy recently released a GIF library of more than 2,000 words and phrases in American Sign Language.

GIF emporium Giphy expanded its library on Thursday to include more than 2,000 words and phrases in American Sign Language. The company collaborated with educational series Sign With Robert to ...

Graphics Interchange Formats – more commonly known as GIFs -- have become an increasingly fun and addictive way to express our feelings on social media, but can they be used to map the language ...

If you’re the kind of person who spends a chunk of their day looking at animated GIFs, a pair of students from MIT want to use your skills to create a new universal language. Kevin Hu and Travis ...