Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
64 results found tagged captioning.
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Understanding Social and Environmental Factors to Enable Collective Access Approaches to the Design of Captioning Technology
This doctoral consortium paper presents a dissertation research program that reimagines how captioning technology should be designed by applying the disability justice principle of collective access — the idea that accessibility is a shared responsib…
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Access on Demand: Real-time, Multi-modal Accessibility for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing based on Augmented Reality
This experience report documents two deaf researchers' hands-on evaluation of Access on Demand (AoD), an augmented reality application developed at Rochester Institute of Technology that delivers real-time captioning and American Sign Language (ASL) …
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Enhancing Non-Speech Information Communicated in Closed Captioning Through Critical Design
This paper investigates the communication of non-speech information (NSI) in closed captioning for d/Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) viewers through a mixed-methods study combining needfinding interviews, prototype development, surveys, and evaluation…
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Jod: Examining Design and Implementation of a Videoconferencing Platform for Mixed Hearing Groups
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of Jod (a Hindi word meaning "link"), a web-based videoconferencing platform purpose-built for mixed hearing group communication. Current platforms like Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet prese…
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Who is speaking: Unpacking In-text Speaker Identification Preference of Viewers who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing while Watching Live Captioned Television Program
This study systematically investigates how the number of speakers onscreen in live television programs affects Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) viewers' preferences for different in-text speaker identification methods in captions. Live TV news and inte…
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Understanding How Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers Visually Explore Captioned Live TV News
This study investigates how Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) viewers distribute their visual attention across different information regions on screen while watching captioned live television news. More than 360 million people worldwide are DHH, and man…
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Accessible Gaming Through Better Captions: A Study on Captions Preferences and Inclusivity of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Players
This study surveys 73 deaf and hard-of-hearing (d/Deaf) individuals about their preferences for caption design in video games, addressing a significant gap: while captioning standards exist for television and film, there are no universally accepted s…
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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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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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Using Networked Multimedia to Improve Educational Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
This paper proposes a networked multimedia platform to address the specific challenges deaf and hard of hearing students face in mainstream university classrooms. The author identifies three core problems. First, isolation: as more deaf students ente…