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  • Predicting the Understandability of Imperfect English Captions for People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

    Sushant Kafle, Matt Huenerfauth · 2019 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

    This paper tackles a fundamental measurement problem in ASR-based captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) users: the standard Word Error Rate (WER) metric has little correlation with how DHH users actually perceive caption quality. WER treats all word errors as equally…

    automatic speech recognition · captioning · deaf and hard of hearing · evaluation metrics · word error rate

  • Evaluating the Benefit of Highlighting Key Words in Captions for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

    Sushant Kafle, Peter Yeung, Matt Huenerfauth · 2019 · Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

    This paper investigates whether visually highlighting important words in video captions benefits Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) users, through formative studies and a larger evaluation study. DHH users face a unique visual-attention challenge when watching captioned video: they…

    Deaf and hard of hearing · captioning · text highlighting · educational accessibility · video accessibility

  • Exploration of Automatic Speech Recognition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Higher Education Classes

    Janine Butler, Brian Trager, Byron Behm · 2019 · Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

    This paper presents a qualitative study of how deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (Rochester Institute of Technology) experienced automatic speech recognition (ASR) as a supplemental access service in mainstream higher…

    speech recognition · Deaf and hard of hearing · captioning · higher education · real-time captions

  • How to Develop Accessible Web Interfaces for Deaf People?

    Gênesis Medeiros do Carmo, Débora Maria Barroso Paiva, Maria Istela Cagnin · 2019 · Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC)

    This paper presents a systematic mapping study examining how web interfaces are being designed and implemented for deaf and hard of hearing users. The authors searched six databases and 17 conferences from 2005-2018, screening 469 publications to select 29 primary studies. The…

    deaf accessibility · hard of hearing · web accessibility · systematic mapping · sign language

  • Preferred Appearance of Captions Generated by Automatic Speech Recognition for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers

    Larwan Berke, Khaled Albusays, Matthew Seita, Matt Huenerfauth · 2019 · Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '19)

    This CHI 2019 Late-Breaking Work (6 pages) investigates a practical question that has received surprisingly little research: when Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is used to caption small-group meetings for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) viewers, how should those captions…

    captioning · deaf and hard of hearing · automatic speech recognition · user interface design · typography

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