Title: End-user Involvement in Assistive Technology Design for the Deaf - are Artificial Forms of Sign Language Meeting the Needs of the Target Audience?
Abstract: A challenge facing individuals/organisations working with the Deaf community, is how to ensure that information is accessible to a community that has specialist language needs. Technologists have developed artificial digital representations of sign language that aim to communicate information to the Deaf community, such as video, animation and sign language notation systems. However these systems have received very mixed reviews and some are often rejected by the Deaf community. So what is it that makes one system more appropriate than another? In this paper we aim to use a novel approach to develop our understanding of how these systems are perceived, by comparing different well established digital sign language systems. This can highlight strengths and weaknesses for such systems to have a higher chance of success in the Deaf community. The paper will present the background and motivation, the experimental design, results and conclusions.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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