Towards communication and information access for deaf people
| dc.contributor.author | Blake, Edwin H. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tucker, William David | |
| dc.contributor.author | Glaser, Meryl | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-04-14T14:19:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-04-14T14:19:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In tightly circumscribed communication situations, an interactive system resident on a mobile device can assist Deaf people with their communication and information needs. The Deaf users considered here use South African Sign Language and information is conveyed by a collection of pre-recorded video clips and images. The system was designed and implemented according to our method of community-based co-design. We present several stages of the development as a series of case studies and highlight our experience and the implications for design. The first stage involved ethnographically inspired methods such as cultural probes. In the next stage we co-designed a medical consultation system that was ultimately dropped for technical reasons. A smaller system was developed for pharmaceutical dispensing and successfully implemented and tested. It now awaits deployment in an actual pharmacy. We also developed a preliminary authoring tool to tackle the problem of content generation for interactive computer literacy training. We are also working on another medical health information tool. We intend that a generic authoring tool be able to generate mobile applications for all of these scenarios. These mobile applications bridge communication gaps for Deaf people via accessible and affordable assistive technology | en_US |
| dc.description.accreditation | Department of HE and Training approved list | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | SANPAD | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Blake, E. et al. (2014). Towards communication and information access for deaf people. SACJ, (54), 10–19. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1015-7999 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/1424 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.privacy.showsubmitter | false | |
| dc.publisher | SAICSIT | en_US |
| dc.status.ispeerreviewed | true | |
| dc.subject | Assistive technology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Authoring tools | en_US |
| dc.subject | O-design | en_US |
| dc.subject | Healthcare | en_US |
| dc.subject | Information and communication technology for development | en_US |
| dc.subject | International computer driver's license | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mobile computing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pharmacy | en_US |
| dc.title | Towards communication and information access for deaf people | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |