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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Personal Perspectives on Using Automatic Speech Recognition to Facilitate Communication between Deaf Students and Hearing Customers
This experience report examines the use of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) via the WhatsApp smartphone app to facilitate communication between deaf and hard-of-hearing (D/HH) students and hearing business customers in real workplace settings. The …
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Exploring the Performance of Facial Expression Recognition Technologies on Deaf Adults and Their Children
This Boston University student research paper investigates how commercial facial expression recognition services perform on Deaf ASL signers and Children of Deaf Adults (CODAs) compared to hearing non-signers. The study is motivated by a critical pro…
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Towards More Robust Speech Interactions for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users
This University of Michigan study addresses a largely overlooked accessibility gap: while much research has focused on providing deaf users access to spoken output (via captioning or sign language), almost no work has addressed improving deaf users' …
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Behavioral Changes in Speakers who are Automatically Captioned in Meetings with Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Peers
This study from Rochester Institute of Technology investigates a largely unexplored question: how does using an ASR-based captioning tool in meetings with deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) colleagues change the speaking behavior of hearing participants? …
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Towards Accessible Conversations in a Mobile Context for People who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
This paper presents two studies examining the communication needs of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people in mobile contexts (walking, transit, recreational activities) and the potential for head-mounted display (HMD) captions to address those needs…
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Pattern recognition and synthesis for sign language translation system
This paper describes a bidirectional sign language translation system being developed to translate between Japanese Sign Language (JSL) and written Japanese. The system addresses both directions of translation: recognizing sign language input and con…
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Web Educational Services for All: The APEINTA Project
This paper presents APEINTA, a Spanish educational project from Carlos III University of Madrid and the Spanish Centre of Captioning and Audio Description (CESyA), aimed at providing inclusive education through three cloud-based web services. Started…
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Crowdsourcing Correction of Speech Recognition Captioning Errors
This paper describes tools built around Synote, an award-winning web-based application from the University of Southampton, that enable crowdsourced correction of automatic speech recognition (ASR) captioning errors to make video content accessible at…
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Enhancing Learning Accessibility through Fully Automatic Captioning
This paper proposes an architecture for automatically generating synchronized captions for video lectures using off-the-shelf automatic speech recognition (ASR) software, aimed at making educational content accessible to hearing impaired students, dy…
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An Adaptive Videos Enrichment System Based on Decision Trees for People with Sensory Disabilities
This paper from the ACAV (Collaborative Annotation for Video Accessibility) project at the University of Lyon proposes an adaptive system that personalises how video accessibility descriptions are presented to users with sensory disabilities. The cor…