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Summary and Prejudice: Online Reading Preferences of Users with Intellectual Disability

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Saminda Sundeepa Balasuriya,

Laurianne Sitbon,

Khairi AnuarAuthors Info & Claims

CHIIR '21: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Pages 285 - 289

https://doi.org/10.1145/3406522.3446039

Published: 14 March 2021 Publication History

Abstract

People with intellectual disability (ID) deserve appropriate access to information online. A vast amount of information on the Internet is written text in the form of articles, and it is often said that summarising these texts could enhance their accessibility. This qualitative research investigates how people with ID prefer to gather information from articles, either in their original form or automatically summarised. The researchers observed the choices and strategies of 10 participants with ID through the reading process, and conducted contextual interviews to understand their preferences, attitudes and the difficulties they faced. The study found that the length of the article is only secondary to the relevance of the article to the person's interests. Summarised articles were found easier to read and having familiar words and images to supplement the text can help people with intellectual disability understand what an article is about.

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Summary and Prejudice: Online Reading Preferences of Users with Intellectual Disability
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Accessibility
    1. Accessibility technologies
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. Usability testing

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CHIIR '21: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

March 2021

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ISBN:9781450380553

DOI:10.1145/3406522

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University of Regensburg, Germany
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University of Tsukuba, Japan
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National Institute of Informatics, Japan
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Kent State University, USA

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Balasuriya SSitbon L(2023)Designing gardening applications to engage people with intellectual disability in gardening activitiesProceedings of the 35th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference10.1145/3638380.3638406(415-422)Online publication date: 2-Dec-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3638380.3638406
Kubullek ADogangün A(2023)Creating Accessibility 2.0 with Artificial IntelligenceProceedings of Mensch und Computer 202310.1145/3603555.3608541(437-441)Online publication date: 3-Sep-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3603555.3608541
Gartland SFlynn PCarneiro MHolloway GFialho JCullen JHamilton EHarris ACullen C(2022)The State of Web Accessibility for People with Cognitive Disabilities: A Rapid Evidence AssessmentBehavioral Sciences10.3390/bs1202002612:2(26)Online publication date: 26-Jan-2022
https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12020026
Roomkham STerris SSitbon L(2022)Multi-modal Conversational Search for People with Intellectual Disability: An Exploratory StudyCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts10.1145/3491101.3519821(1-6)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2022
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