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  • A General HCI Framework of Sonification Applications

    Ag Asri Ag Ibrahim, Andy Hunt · 2006 · Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

    This paper proposes a general HCI framework for understanding and evaluating sonification applications — software that uses non-speech sound to represent data or information. The authors define sonification as having three main elements: Goal (for understanding), Method (how to…

    sonification · auditory display · HCI framework · usability inspection · parameter mapping

  • The Impact of User Research on Product Design Case Study: Accessibility Ecosystem for Windows Vista

    Annuska Perkins, Tira Cohene · 2006 · Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

    This paper describes how user research conducted by Microsoft's Windows Accessible Technology Group shaped the accessibility features in Windows Vista. The research encompassed a wide range of users across major disability types (vision, dexterity, hearing, speech, cognitive),…

    accessibility · user research · operating system · universal design · usability

  • South African Sign Language Machine Translation Project

    Lynette van Zijl · 2006 · Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

    This paper describes the South African Sign Language Machine Translation (SASL-MT) project at Stellenbosch University, aimed at increasing the South African Deaf community's access to information by automatically translating English text into South African Sign Language (SASL).…

    sign language · machine translation · deaf · South Africa · natural language processing

  • MobileASL: Intelligibility of Sign Language Video as Constrained by Mobile Phone Technology

    Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Eve A. Riskin · 2006 · Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

    This paper presents MobileASL, a video compression research project aimed at enabling Deaf people to communicate in American Sign Language (ASL) over mobile phone networks. In 2006, Deaf people in the US were limited to text messaging on mobile phones, forcing communication in…

    deaf · American Sign Language · mobile phone · video compression · video relay

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