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9 papers
Are Caption Metrics Broken? Latency, Deaf and Hard of Hearing User Ratings, and Bias across Technologies
Bernard Thompson, James Waller, Luz Fanny Calderon Torres +5
Live captions on TV often contain errors and timing issues, making it hard for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) viewers to follow dialog. It is essential that caption quality metrics…
DiscoSign: Discourse-Aware Text to Sign Language Gloss Translation
Vasileios Baltatzis, Mert Inan, Connor Gillis +4
Sign language processing systems have traditionally operated at the sentence level, ignoring critical discourse phenomena fundamental to sign language comprehension. We introduce D…
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Access to Intelligent Personal Assistants: Comparison of Voice-Based Options with an LLM-Powered Touch Interface
Paige S. DeVries, Michaela Okosi, Ming Li +6
We investigate intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people who can use their voice in everyday communication. The inability of IP…
Barriers to Employment: The Deaf Multimedia Authoring Tax
C. Vogler, A. Glasser, R. Kushalnagar +7
This paper describes the challenges that deaf and hard of hearing people face with creating accessible multimedia content, such as portfolios, instructional videos and video presen…
Towards AI-driven Sign Language Generation with Non-manual Markers
Han Zhang, Rotem Shalev-Arkushin, Vasileios Baltatzis +7
Sign languages are essential for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community. Sign language generation systems have the potential to support communication by translating from writ…
Assessment of Sign Language-Based versus Touch-Based Input for Deaf Users Interacting with Intelligent Personal Assistants
Nina Tran, Paige DeVries, Matthew Seita +3
With the recent advancements in intelligent personal assistants (IPAs), their popularity is rapidly increasing when it comes to utilizing Automatic Speech Recognition within househ…
How Users Experience Closed Captions on Live Television: Quality Metrics Remain a Challenge
Mariana Arroyo Chavez, Molly Feanny, Matthew Seita +6
This paper presents a mixed methods study on how deaf, hard of hearing and hearing viewers perceive live TV caption quality with captioned video stimuli designed to mirror TV capti…
Sign Language-Based versus Touch-Based Input for Deaf Users with Interactive Personal Assistants in Simulated Kitchen Environments
Paige DeVries, Nina Tran, Keith Delk +6
In this study, we assess the usability of interactive personal assistants (IPAs), such as Amazon Alexa, in a simulated kitchen smart home environment, with deaf and hard of hearing…
Closed ASL Interpreting for Online Videos
Raja Kushalnagar, Matthew Seita, Abraham Glasser
Deaf individuals face great challenges in today's society. It can be very difficult to be able to understand different forms of media without a sense of hearing. Many videos and mo…