Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
8 results found tagged hearing impairment.
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Equipping designers by simulating the effects of visual and hearing impairments
This short Assets '07 demonstration paper from the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre describes a software simulator built to help designers — especially product and communications designers, not just web designers — understand the effects of common…
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Understanding Emotion through Multimedia: Comparison between Hearing-Impaired People and People with Hearing Abilities
This paper investigates how hearing-impaired and normal-hearing people recognise emotions conveyed through drum performances and accompanying visual stimuli. The research is part of a larger project to build a "performance enhancement machine" (PEM) …
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An Empirical Study of Issues and Barriers to Mainstream Video Game Accessibility
This paper investigates the real-world state of video game accessibility through two complementary empirical studies. The first is an online survey of 55 gamers with disabilities, exploring their gaming habits, the platforms they use, the types of ga…
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Online News Videos: The UX of Subtitle Position
This BBC-funded research investigates whether repositioning subtitles from their traditional placement within a video to below the video frame improves user experience for online news content. The study addresses a gap in captioning research: while t…
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Quantitative Evaluation for Web Accessibility with Respect to Disabled Groups
This paper proposes a methodology for evaluating web accessibility that goes beyond standard WCAG conformance levels to assess suitability for specific disability groups, particularly vision-impaired and hearing-impaired users. The authors argue that…
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Multi-view Mouth Renderization for Assisting Lip-reading
This paper presents an assistive tool that uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to enhance video for people who rely on lip-reading. The core problem is that lip-readers generally prefer a frontal view of a speaker's face, but in real-world vi…
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Voice Creator: Giving Customized Voice to the Voiceless for Online Communication
This extended abstract presents Voice Creator, a web-based prototype that allows people with speech or hearing impairments to create customized synthetic voices for online communication. The work is motivated by research showing that voice-based comm…
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Scaffolding Digital Literacy Through Digital Skills Training for Disabled People in the Global South
This paper presents a digital skills training intervention for 138 blind and partially sighted (BPS) and deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people across India and Kenya, grounded in Vygotsky's Scaffolding Theory. The study addresses the digital divide f…