Interactive Software Technology for Deaf Users: Mapping the HCI Research Landscape that Focuses on Accessibility

Yeratziotis, Alexandros; Zaphiris, Panayiotis

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20678-3_25

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“…In the particular study, the authors provided information on how to apply eye tracking to evaluate the usability [2]. Based on people with hearing impairment, Yeratziotis and Zaphiris (2015) described the development of research in HCI, with the focus on accessibility for the deaf users [58]. Finally, Michailidou et al…”

Section: Design and Inclusion Of People With Disabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards the Use of Social Computing for Social Inclusion: An Overview of the Literature

Constantinou

Kosmas

Parmaxi

et al. 2018

Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Design, Development and Technological Innovation

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Social computing constitutes a new computing paradigm in an interdisciplinary research community which will strongly influence informatics systems and applications in the years to come. Indeed, from a social perspective, considerable interest in examining the influences of Social Computing (SC) for Social Inclusion (SI) arises from researchers and designers. This paper addresses the existing literature on the use of SC for SI. Previous studies have been reviewed to report affordances of SC design in five different areas: (a) for the elderly, (b) for people with disabilities, (c) for gender studies, (d) for societal change, and (e) for the preservation of cultural heritage. Results from the literature overview provide some examples of applications of new technologies that were designed to reduce social exclusion. Our review further shows that the use of different tools used by different groups of people has a positive impact for those people who are either socially included or excluded from their use. However, further research is needed in these five directions, which are analysed in this document and direct research into the gaps identified.

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Section: Design and Inclusion Of People With Disabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards the Use of Social Computing for Social Inclusion: An Overview of the Literature

Constantinou

Kosmas

Parmaxi

et al. 2018

Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Design, Development and Technological Innovation

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“…Through the UX testing's result, the mobile learning application can be constructed appropriately focusing on enduser [2]. In addition, most mobile learning applications developed specifically for deaf children are less used than common applications for general users [4]. Deaf children require less effort to complete tasks and spend less time understanding the flow of mobile learning, which directly contributes to determining their UX.…”

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“…Consequently, UX testing has to be done to ensure the deaf mobile learning applications are entirely designed and give a good experience for them. Indirectly, it will overcome the less-used issues of existing deaf children mobile learning [4].…”

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UX Testing for Mobile Learning Applications of Deaf Children

Mohamad¹,

Hashim²

2021

IJACSA

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Many studies are focusing on deaf children mobile learning. However, they are not concentrating on user experience (UX) testing. Current UX testing is based on existing UX evaluation models that are hard to apply due to the comprehensive measurements and lack of description on how to conduct evaluation for a more specific mobile learning process. Moreover, the existing UX evaluation models are not highlighted to be applied in testing UX for deaf children's mobile learning. Hence, this paper proposed questions for UX testing for deaf children's mobile learning to explore UX issues in offering an enjoyable learning application. Smileyometer is used to capture the data from deaf children after using a selected mobile learning application, KoTBaM and Learning Fakih. This study involves deaf children aged 7 -12 years old familiar with the mobile application. The survey is divided into two sections: i) demographic information and ii) 24 questions that the respondent must answer using a smileyometer. The survey included 38 deaf children from Malaysian Deaf School. The participating deaf children completed the questionnaires with the assistance of their teachers after using the mobile learning application in the classroom. Yet, various issues needed to be addressed in order to improve the deaf children's user experience. Special exercises should be developed for deaf children connected to their school syllabus to consolidate their knowledge and self-learn everywhere. Furthermore, games elements should be adapted so the deaf children are able to learn while playing.

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Making social media applications inclusive for deaf end-users with access to sign language

Yeratziotis,

Achilleos,

Koumou

et al. 2023

Multimed Tools Appl

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Social media apps such as WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram and Viber are primary communication channels for most people today. Even within these Mainstream Social Media Applications, persons who are deaf are not provided with the rights and means to interact using sign language. This work, an outcome of the research project’ “Accessible System and Social Media Mobile Application for Deaf Users (ASM4Deaf)”, supports the inclusion of deaf end-users in social media applications. This was achieved via: 1) design and development of the ASM4Deaf system, which includes the Connect Deaf mobile application, enabling use of Sign Language Alphabet keyboards in social media apps in 17 different sign languages and 2) the evaluations of Low- and High-Fidelity prototypes aimed to enhance the app’s design and functionality, i.e. the ability to browse, search and edit animated videos/GIFs in the American Sign Language (ASL), using the face swapping feature. This makes the full set of features offered by social media applications accessible to deaf end-users and their personal network, which is the main contribution of this work. A Human-Centred Design methodology was employed, with the end-users at the heart of the process, to design and evaluate the Lo-Fi and Hi-Fi prototypes, and based on the evaluation results to develop the ASM4Deaf system and the Connect Deaf mobile application to fully meet the requirements of the deaf end-users.

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Interactive Software Technology for Deaf Users: Mapping the HCI Research Landscape that Focuses on Accessibility

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Towards the Use of Social Computing for Social Inclusion: An Overview of the Literature

Towards the Use of Social Computing for Social Inclusion: An Overview of the Literature

UX Testing for Mobile Learning Applications of Deaf Children

Making social media applications inclusive for deaf end-users with access to sign language

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