{"title":"Towards Inclusive Research and Resources in American Signed Languages","authors":"Shruti Mahajan","doi":"10.1145/3654768.3654774","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Creating high-quality resources that are easily accessible in American Sign Language (ASL) is important and valuable to the Deaf community. Simply adding videos to an English-centric user interface layout leads to unsatisfactory results because language conventions and differences in intuition create varying scanning patterns and expectations regarding the information's placement and presentation. Therefore, design choices regarding the videos and their surroundings must be made to overcome this challenge. In this work, we design interfaces that do not rely on English fluency. By promoting the widespread use and availability of well-designed ASL resources, we aim to support increased access and representation of ASL online materials for members of the Deaf community. We are developing an ASL-centric survey tool that would enable users to take surveys in ASL. Our objective is to study design elements that can help users navigate resources intuitively without relying on English. Lastly, we hope to contribute to cultivating access to collaborative human-centered methods and research by closely reflecting on HCI methods and moving towards creating a guideline to carry out research in ASL.","PeriodicalId":486789,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigaccess Accessibility and Computing","volume":"288 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM Sigaccess Accessibility and Computing","FirstCategoryId":"0","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3654768.3654774","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Creating high-quality resources that are easily accessible in American Sign Language (ASL) is important and valuable to the Deaf community. Simply adding videos to an English-centric user interface layout leads to unsatisfactory results because language conventions and differences in intuition create varying scanning patterns and expectations regarding the information's placement and presentation. Therefore, design choices regarding the videos and their surroundings must be made to overcome this challenge. In this work, we design interfaces that do not rely on English fluency. By promoting the widespread use and availability of well-designed ASL resources, we aim to support increased access and representation of ASL online materials for members of the Deaf community. We are developing an ASL-centric survey tool that would enable users to take surveys in ASL. Our objective is to study design elements that can help users navigate resources intuitively without relying on English. Lastly, we hope to contribute to cultivating access to collaborative human-centered methods and research by closely reflecting on HCI methods and moving towards creating a guideline to carry out research in ASL.
对于聋人社区来说,创建便于使用美国手语 (ASL) 的高质量资源非常重要,也非常有价值。简单地将视频添加到以英语为中心的用户界面布局中会导致不尽人意的结果,因为语言习惯和直觉差异会产生不同的扫描模式以及对信息位置和呈现方式的期望。因此,必须对视频及其周围环境做出设计选择,以克服这一挑战。在这项工作中,我们设计了不依赖英语流利程度的界面。通过促进设计良好的 ASL 资源的广泛使用和可用性,我们的目标是支持聋人社区成员更多地访问和使用 ASL 在线资料。我们正在开发一种以 ASL 为中心的调查工具,使用户能够用 ASL 进行调查。我们的目标是研究能够帮助用户不依赖英语直观地浏览资源的设计元素。最后,我们希望通过对人机交互方法的深入思考,为培养以人为本的合作方法和研究做出贡献,并逐步制定用 ASL 开展研究的指南。