Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) viewers watch multimedia with captions on devices with widely varying widths. We investigated the impact of caption width on viewers' preferences. Previous research has shown that presenting one word lines allows viewers ...
In this experience report, we describe the accessibility challenges that deaf and hard of hearing users face in teleconferences, based on both our first-hand participation in meetings, and as User Interface and Experience experts. Teleconferencing poses ...
Sign language interfaces offer rich, timely research problems. Recent advances in computational methods have made a wider range of sign language interfaces possible. At the same time, a recent interdisciplinary review and call-to-action outlines the ...
Home assistant devices such as Amazon Echo and Google Home have become tremendously popular in the last couple of years. However, due to their voice-controlled functionality, these devices are not accessible to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) people. ...
People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) benefit from text captioning to understand audio, yet captions alone are often insufficient for the complex environment of a panel presentation, with rapid and unpredictable turn-taking among multiple ...
Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) individuals do not have equal access to audio information in most educational settings, even with visual translation accommodations such as sign language interpreters or captioners. As a result, their learning and ...
The objective of this course is to provide an overview of legal issues in HCI. The course will focus on five different areas: accessibility, privacy, intellectual property, telecommunications, and requirements in using human participants in research.
To investigate preferences for mobile and wearable sound awareness systems, we conducted an online survey with 201 DHH participants. The survey explores how demographic factors affect perceptions of sound awareness technologies, gauges interest in ...
Prior work has explored communication challenges faced by people who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) and the potential role of new captioning and support technologies to address these challenges; however, the focus has been on stationary contexts ...
Sign languages lack a standard written form, preventing millions of Deaf people from accessing text in their primary language. A major barrier to adoption is difficulty learning a system which represents complex 3D movements with stationary symbols. In ...
We investigate the role of aesthetic customization in managing sociocultural issues of assistive technology (AT) use. First, we examined an online forum dedicated to customized hearing aids and cochlear implants to understand the breadth of activity ...
We explore an augmented reality (AR) approach to real-time captioning for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. In contrast to traditional captioning, which uses an external, fixed display (e.g., laptop or large screen), our approach allows users to ...
Smart devices connected to the Internet are proliferating.To reduce costs of devices that havetraditionally been inexpensive(toasters, microwaves, printers, etc), manyof these devices have chosen to use a speech interface rather than a visual one. This ...
Many personal devices have transitioned from visual-controlled interfaces to speech-controlled interfaces to reduce costs and interactive friction, supported by the rapid growth in capabilities of speech-controlled interfaces, e.g., Amazon Echo or Apple'...
This experience report describes the accessibility challenges in using the top seven most popular Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) applications on personal devices for commands and group conversation, by five deaf, hard of hearing and hearing ...
Quickly converting speech to text allows deaf and hard of hearing people to interactively follow along with live speech. Doing so reliably requires a combination of perception, understanding, and speed that neither humans nor machines possess alone. In ...
Deaf individuals face great challenges in today's society. It can be very difficult to be able to understand different forms of media without a sense of hearing. Many videos and movies found online today are not captioned, and even fewer have a ...
Captions are typically segmented in a way that respects grammatical boundaries and makes them more readable. However, the growth of online video content with captions generated from transcripts means that this segmentation process is often ignored. This ...
Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) students are under-served and under-represented in education in part because they miss spoken classroom information, even with aural-to-visual accommodations, such as a real-time speech to text Display (SD). Most SD ...
Captions (subtitles) for television and movies have greatly enhanced accessibility for Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) consumers who do not understand the audio, but can otherwise follow by reading the captions. However, these captions fail to fully ...
The Americans with Disabilities Act requires online lecture creators to caption the videos for deaf and hard of hearing students, or for deaf and low vision (DLV) students who request these accommodations. While current captioned lecture video ...
The promise of affordable, automatic approaches to real-time captioning imagines a future in which deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users have immediate access to speech in the world around them my simply picking up their phone or other mobile device. ...
We explore methods for improving the readability of real- time captions by allowing users to more easily switch their gaze between multiple visual information sources. Real-time captioning provides deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users with access to ...
Real-time captioning enables deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people to follow classroom lectures and other aural speech by converting it into visual text with less than a five second delay. Keeping the delay short allows end-users to follow and ...
Real-time captioning provides people who are deaf or hard of hearing access to speech in settings such as classrooms and live events. The most reliable approach to provide these captions is to recruit an expert stenographer who is able to type at ...
In the Information Technology (IT) field, deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students are underrepresented and less academically successful compared to their hearing counterparts. DHH students face difficulty in handling the demands and expectations of ...
Real-time captioning provides people who are deaf or hard of hearing access to aural speech in the classroom and at live events. The only reliable approach currently is to recruit a local or remote expert stenographer who is able to type at natural ...
Captions provide deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users access to the audio component of web videos and television. While hearing consumers can watch and listen simultaneously, the transformation of audio to text requires deaf viewers to watch two ...
Deaf and hard of hearing individuals need accommodations that transform aural to visual information, such as captions that are generated in real-time to enhance their access to spoken information in lectures and other live events. The captions produced ...
Real-time captioning provides deaf and hard of hearing people immediate access to spoken language and enables participation in dialogue with others. Low latency is critical because it allows speech to be paired with relevant visual cues. Currently, the ...
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Illinois (and printed in the 2011 ISTAS proceedings).
We propose a cooperative approach by ...
We present a multiple-view platform for low vision students that utilizes students' personal smart phone cameras and tablets in the classroom. Low vision or deaf students can independently use the platform to obtain flexible, magnified views of lecture ...
Multiple View Perspectives (MVP) enables deaf and hard of hearing students to view and record multiple video views of a classroom presentation using a stand-alone solution. We show that deaf and hard of hearing students prefer multiple, focused videos ...