Literature Reviews

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

3 results found tagged split attention.

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.…
Closed ASL Interpreting for Online Videos

Raja Kushalnagar, Matthew Seita, Abraham Glasser (2017) — Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

This paper introduces "closed interpreting," a concept analogous to closed captioning but for sign language interpretation of online videos. While many deaf viewers prefer ASL interpreters over captions (as verbatim captioning speed often exceeds rea…