Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
159 results found tagged deaf and hard of hearing.
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Joint Bilingual Navigation of Informed Consent and Intake Forms in American Sign Language and Written English
This paper presents a joint bilingual informed consent and intake form that can be navigated simultaneously in American Sign Language (ASL) and written English, addressing a critical accessibility barrier for the approximately 500,000 Americans who p…
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Notification Designs for Influencing Hearing Speakers' Behaviors During Captioned Conversations Among Mixed DHH-Hearing Groups
This paper investigates notification system designs that prompt hearing speakers to adjust their speech behaviors (speaking slower, louder, or more clearly) during ASR-captioned videoconference conversations with Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) partic…
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Understanding the Video Content Creation Journey of Creators with Sensory Impairment in Kenya
This paper presents the first in-depth qualitative study of video content creation by people with visual and hearing impairments in a low- and middle-income country (LMIC) context, specifically Kenya. The researchers conducted semi-structured intervi…
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Sonic Agency: A Group Autoethnography of Technology-mediated Performance Practice by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Musicians
This paper presents a 15-month group autoethnography conducted by a mixed-hearing team of five researchers and musicians affiliated with CymaSpace, a Deaf-owned music and culture institution in Portland, Oregon. The study examines how d/Deaf and Hard…
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CuCap: Comparative Analysis of Customized Captioning between North American and South Korean d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users
This paper introduces CuCap, a customizable captioning system that allows d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) users to personalize how paralinguistic speech features are visually represented in captions. Traditional captions convey only the words spoken…
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SoundNarratives: Rich Auditory Scene Descriptions to Support Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
This paper introduces SoundNarratives, a real-time system that generates rich, contextual auditory scene descriptions tailored to deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users. Existing sound recognition technologies typically classify sounds into predefined …
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CARTGPT: Real-Time Correction of CART Captions Using Large Language Models
This paper introduces CARTGPT, a real-time system that enhances Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) captions by combining human-generated CART transcripts with automatic speech recognition (ASR) output and using GPT-4 to detect and corre…
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CoSignPlay: A Collaborative Approach to Learning Non-Manual Signs in ASL for Hearing Families with Deaf Children
This paper introduces CoSignPlay, a novel collaborative learning approach for teaching non-manual signs (NMS) in American Sign Language to hearing families with deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. Over 90% of DHH children are born to hearing fam…
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CapTune: Adapting Non-Speech Captions With Anchored Generative Models
CapTune is a system that enables customization of non-speech captions—descriptions of environmental sounds, music, and other audio cues—for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) viewers. Current captioning practices follow a one-size-fits-all model based on…
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Toward a Multi-layer Framework to Assess the Quality of Life Impact of Smartphones as Assistive Technology for People with Sensory Disabilities in Kenya
This paper presents the first longitudinal mixed-methods study investigating the impact of smartphones as assistive technology on the quality of life (QoL) of blind or partially sighted (BPS) and deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) individuals in Kenya. Th…