Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
11 results found tagged hard of hearing.
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Facetop Tablet: Note-Taking Assistance for Deaf Persons
This paper presents Facetop Tablet, a system designed to assist deaf and hard of hearing people in taking notes during meetings, lectures, and group activities. The core problem is that deaf users who rely on sign language interpreters face a constan…
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Mixed Local and Remote Participation in Teleconferences from a Deaf and Hard of Hearing Perspective
This experience report describes the accessibility challenges faced by deaf and hard of hearing members of the FCC's Emergency Access Advisory Committee (EAAC) during 2.5 years of collaboration with 25-30 hearing committee members in mixed local and …
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Audio-Visual Speech Understanding in Simulated Telephony Applications by Individuals with Hearing Loss
This paper presents two within-subjects experiments (conducted in 2009 and 2012 with 24 and 22 participants respectively) investigating how video frame rate and audio-video synchrony affect speech understanding by people with hearing loss during simu…
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Reading-Assistance Tools Among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Computing Professionals in the U.S.: Their Reading Experiences, Interests and Perceptions of Social Accessibility
This research investigates the reading experiences, needs, and interests of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) computing professionals in Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) tools—software that automatically rewrites complex text to make it easier to rea…
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ASL CLeaR: STEM Education Tools for Deaf Students
This demonstration paper introduces ASL CLeaR (American Sign Language STEM Concept Learning Resource), a free online educational platform designed to address a critical gap in STEM education for deaf and hard of hearing students. The authors identify…
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The Effects of Automatic Speech Recognition Quality on Human Transcription Latency
This paper investigates a practical question for accessibility: when does providing automatic speech recognition (ASR) output help human captionists work faster, and when does it slow them down? Converting speech to text is fundamental for making aud…
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How to Develop Accessible Web Interfaces for Deaf People?
This paper presents a systematic mapping study examining how web interfaces are being designed and implemented for deaf and hard of hearing users. The authors searched six databases and 17 conferences from 2005-2018, screening 469 publications to sel…
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Autoethnography of a Hard of Hearing Traveler
This paper presents a 2.5-year autoethnographic account of the recreational travel experiences of Jain, a hard of hearing individual with severe-to-profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss who wears behind-the-ear hearing aids. The account draws…
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SoundWatch: Exploring Smartwatch-based Deep Learning Approaches to Support Sound Awareness for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users
This paper presents SoundWatch, a smartwatch-based sound awareness system that uses deep learning to classify environmental sounds in real time and provide visual and haptic notifications to deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users. The research addresse…
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Disability and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Using Twitter to Understand Accessibility during Rapid Societal Transition
This Carnegie Mellon University study uses Twitter data to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected people with disabilities (PWD) across three critical domains where technology and accessibility intersect: grocery delivery servi…