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As communication is a fundamental human right, fostering social, emotional, and cognitive development, this paper explores the importance of high-quality automatic translation from written Portuguese to Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) in avatar-based ...

The theoretical test system for obtaining the national driver’s license (CNH) has a translation service from Portuguese to Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) to promote access for deaf users. This article reports on the usability assessment of the test for ...

Closed sign language interpreting makes media accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers who use sign language as their primary mode of communication. Analogous to subtitles, this feature allows to toggle sign language interpretation on and ...

This paper presents a case study on the design, development, and evaluation of Tabeer-e-Isharaat (TEI), a digital educational platform tailored to meet the needs of deaf children at the Deaf Reach School in Pakistan. Informed by classroom observations ...

With technological advancements, audio engineering has evolved from a domain exclusive to professionals to one open to amateurs. However, research is limited on the accessibility of audio engineering, particularly for deaf, Deaf, and hard of hearing (...

The Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community constitutes over 430 million people globally, with about 70 million of them using sign language as their primary means of communication. Learning sign language poses significant challenges, and researchers have ...

Sound recognition tools have wide-ranging impacts for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people from being informed of safety-critical information (e.g., fire alarms, sirens) to more mundane but still useful information (e.g., door knock, microwave beeps). ...

With the development of industry 4.0, more collaborative robots are being implemented in manufacturing environments. Hence, research in human-robot interaction (HRI) and human-cobot interaction (HCI) is gaining traction. However, the design of how cobots ...

People with speech disorders often communicate through special gestures and sign language gestures. However, other people around them might not understand the meaning of those gestures. The research described in this article is aimed at providing an ...

Creative sound activities, such as music playing and audio engineering, are said to have been democratized with the development of technology. Yet, the use of technology in creative sound activities by people who are deaf, Deaf, and hard of hearing (DHH)...

Recent advances have enabled automatic sound recognition systems for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users on mobile devices. However, these tools use pre-trained, generic sound recognition models, which do not meet the diverse needs of DHH users. We ...

Initiatives about developing accessible software are important to support the construction of computational solutions that supply digital services and information for all users, including people with disabilities. Accessibility is a subcharacteristic ...

Internet sites expose their content primarily in a textual form. Accessibility solutions that use avatars to translate from Portuguese into sign language aim to reduce accessibility barriers for deaf people who are literate only in Libras or have ...

This study aims to determine the relationship between the intention to use Web Captioner as a verbal language translator with the academic self-efficacy of deaf individuals. This research is motivated by the problems faced by teachers and deaf ...

Virtual reality (VR) leverages human sight, hearing and touch senses to convey virtual experiences. For d/Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people, information conveyed through sound may not be accessible. To help with future design of accessible VR sound ...

Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) viewers watch multimedia with captions on devices with widely varying widths. We investigated the impact of caption width on viewers' preferences. Previous research has shown that presenting one word lines allows viewers ...

Various technologies mediate synchronous audio-visual one-on-one communication (SAVOC) between Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) and hearing colleagues, including automatic-captioning smartphone apps for in-person settings, or text-chat features of ...

The Brazilian sign language (Libras) is, by law, the second official language of the country. However, a large part of the listeners do not know it. The lack of knowledge of Libras by listeners and the Portuguese language by deaf damages communication ...

COVID-19's social distance increased domestic violence (DV). In Brazil, in spite of the existence of services to denounce DV, women who do not communicate through the Brazilian-Portuguese language (Pt-Br) are, in fact, excluded as users. As a previous ...

Assistive Technologies (ATs) for Deaf Community are technologies that support Deafs to carry out their daily activities, contributing to their independence and quality of life. However, not all ATs are presented with quality for their users, resulting ...