Event Date:
Friday, November 22nd, 2019 – 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Speaker:
Christian Vogler, Ph.D. Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, Director, Technology Access Program, Prof., Dept. of Communication Studies He leads & co-leads multiple research grants that focus on accessible technology for the deaf & hard of hearing
Host:
John Brabyn
Abstract
Projects at the Hearing Impairment RERC and current projects generally
- Usability of Alexa and similar voice assistants to people who do not speak clearly or prefer to sign
- The genesis of Google Live Transcribe and its transition to a public release is an example of successful wholistic design
- Closed caption quality research, importance of punctuation in closed captions, new work on caption reading speeds
- Consumer-focused train-the-trainer technology training framework (which was just concluded in the previous RERC, and released for publication)
- Impact of audio quality parameters on receptive listening (the recent ASSETS publication plus some stuff that is not yet published, including some conversational study results and practices)
- Impact of AV sync and AV frame rates on receptive listening
- Smart home alerting for deaf/hh using off-the-shelf IoT technology