Sparkling silence: Practices and challenges of livestreaming among deaf or hard of hearing streamers

B Cao, C He, M Zhou, M Fan - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Understanding livestream platforms' accessibility challenges for minority groups, such as
people with disabilities, is critical to increasing the diversity and inclusion of those platforms …

Assessment of Sign Language-Based versus Touch-Based Input for Deaf Users Interacting with Intelligent Personal Assistants

N Tran, PS DeVries, M Seita, R Kushalnagar… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
With the recent advancements in intelligent personal assistants (IPAs), their popularity is
rapidly increasing when it comes to utilizing Automatic Speech Recognition within …

FingerSpeller: Camera-Free Text Entry Using Smart Rings for American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition

D Martin, Z Leng, T Gemicioglu, J Womack… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Camera-based text entry using American Sign Language (ASL) fingerspelling has become
more feasible due to recent advancements in recognition technology. However, there are …

You have interrupted me again!: making voice assistants more dementia-friendly with incremental clarification

A Addlesee, A Eshghi - Frontiers in Dementia, 2024 - frontiersin.org
In spontaneous conversation, speakers seldom have a full plan of what they are going to say
in advance: they need to conceptualise and plan incrementally as they articulate each word …

Designing and Evaluating an Advanced Dance Video Comprehension Tool with In-situ Move Identification Capabilities

S Hassan, C de Lacerda Pataca, L Nourian… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Analyzing dance moves and routines is a foundational step in learning dance. Videos are
often utilized at this step, and advancements in machine learning, particularly in human …

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 …

Towards MOOCs for lipreading: Using synthetic talking heads to train humans in lipreading at scale

A Agarwal, B Sen, R Mukhopadhyay… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Many people with some form of hearing loss consider lipreading as their primary mode of
day-to-day communication. However, finding resources to learn or improve one's lipreading …

Tap to Sign: Towards using American Sign Language for Text Entry on Smartphones

S Hassan, A Glasser, M Shengelia, T Starner… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Soon, smartphones may be capable of allowing American Sign Language (ASL) signing
and/or fingerspelling for text entry. To explore the usefulness of this approach, we compared …

Deaf and Hard of Hearing People's Perspectives on Augmented Reality Interfaces for Improving the Accessibility of Smart Speakers

R Mathew, GW Tigwell, RL Peiris - International Conference on Human …, 2024 - Springer
The continued evolution of voice recognition technology has led to its integration into many
smart devices as the primary mode of user interaction. Smart speakers are among the most …

What Factors Motivate Culturally Deaf People to Want Assistive Technologies?

A Vogel, JL Korte - Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Assistive technologies see high rates of rejection, especially in Deaf communities, due to
barriers including cost, discomfort, acclimatization periods, lack of aesthetic appeal, visibility …