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3 results found tagged multimedia learning.

Redesigning Educational Videos for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Learners

Si Chen, Haocong Cheng, Suzy Su, Lu Ming, Sarah Masud, Qi Wang, Yun Huang (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

Educational videos have exploded in higher education and online learning, but accessibility guidance for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) learners has barely moved beyond captions and transcripts. Chen and colleagues argue this is a theoretical gap a…
SlidePacer: Improving Class Pace for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

Alessandra Brandao (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

This short paper from Rochester Institute of Technology introduces SlidePacer, a prototype tool designed to synchronize PowerPoint slide transitions with sign language interpretation in university classrooms. The paper addresses a fundamental challen…
SlidePacer: A Presentation Delivery Tool for Instructors of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

Alessandra Brandão, Hugo Nicolau, Shreya Tadas, Vicki L. Hanson (2016) — ASSETS '16: Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

SlidePacer addresses a fundamental challenge for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students in mainstream classrooms: the cognitive overload caused by splitting attention between multiple visual sources—instructor, slides, and sign language interpreter.…