Talking-Head Video

A common educational video format in which a presenter speaks directly to the camera, typically filling the frame, with no or few accompanying visuals. For d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing learners, talking-head videos are often low in useful visual content - the speaker's face must be visible for lipreading and facial cues but the format leaves few visuals to support abstract concepts carried by the captions, increasing cognitive load when captions are dense.