Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Understanding How Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers Visually Explore Captioned Live TV News

  Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A '23)

  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…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • captioning
  • eye tracking
  • television accessibility
  • caption placement
  • gaze behavior
  • live captioning
  • news consumption
  • attention
  • caption quality metrics

• Modeling Word Importance in Conversational Transcripts: Toward improved live captioning for Deaf and hard of hearing viewers

  Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Matt Huenerfauth, Cecilia O. Alm (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper investigates how to model word importance in conversational transcripts to improve live captioning quality for Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) viewers. Live captions generated by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems inevitably contain…

  • live captioning
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • automatic speech recognition
  • word importance
  • natural language processing
  • caption quality metrics