Digital accessibility in the era of artificial intelligence—Bibliometric analysis and systematic review

K Chemnad, A Othman - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Digital accessibility involves designing digital systems and services to enable
access for individuals, including those with disabilities, including visual, auditory, motor, or …

Expressive bodies engaging with embodied disability cultures for collaborative design critiques

K Spiel, R Angelini - Proceedings of the 24th International ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In our experience as researchers engaging with non-academic audiences, we observed that
it remains a challenge to receive direct and critical feedback from participants. This is …

Modeling the speed and timing of American Sign Language to generate realistic animations

S Al-Khazraji, L Berke, S Kafle, P Yeung… - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
To enable more websites to provide content in the form of sign language, we investigate
software to partially automate the synthesis of animations of American Sign Language …

Contrasting technologists' and activists' positions on signing avatars

R Angelini - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The research and development of signing avatars has become widely publicised with the
promise to provide novel, efficient and accessible solutions to existing access issues deaf …

Towards sign language-centric design of ASL survey tools

S Mahajan, Z Walker, R Boll, M Santacreu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Questionnaires are fundamental learning and research tools for gathering insights and
information from individuals, and now can be created easily using online tools. However …

Enhancing Portuguese Sign Language Animation with Dynamic Timing and Mouthing

I Lacerda, H Nicolau, L Coheur - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06124, 2023 - arxiv.org
Current signing avatars are often described as unnatural as they cannot accurately
reproduce all the subtleties of synchronized body behaviors of a human signer. In this paper …

Role of Technology in Increasing Representation of Deaf Individuals in Future STEM Workplaces

S Mahajan, K Alkhudaidi, R Boll, J Reis… - Proceedings of the 1st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Deaf individuals are still largely underrepresented in most workplaces, particularly in STEM
fields. The HCI community can develop well-designed workplace tools that could have a …

Towards Inclusive Video Commenting: Introducing Signmaku for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing

S Chen, H Cheng, J Situ, D Kirst, S Su… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Previous research underscored the potential of danmaku–a text-based commenting feature
on videos–in engaging hearing audiences. Yet, for many Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) …

US Deaf Community Perspectives on Automatic Sign Language Translation

N Tran, RE Ladner, D Bragg - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Millions of Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people primarily use a sign language for
communication, but there is a lack of adequate sign language interpreting to fill these …

" I Want To Be Able To Change The Speed And Size Of The Avatar": Assessing User Requirements For Animated Sign Language Translation Interfaces

A Nolte, B Gleißl, J Heckmann, D Wallach… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Despite research having shown that signing users vary in their preferences and needs of
distinct sign language (SL) parameters, current research on SL avatars lacks consideration …