TY - GEN
T1 - An evaluation of haptic descriptions for audio described films for individuals who are blind
AU - McDaniel, Troy
AU - Viswanathan, Lakshmie Narayan
AU - Panchanathan, Sethuraman
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Narrations of visual content, or audio descriptions, enhance the accessibility of video media for individuals who are blind. While the adoption of this assistive technology continues to broaden, audio descriptions have several limitations: they often lack detail (i.e., are abridged) to fit within dialogue-free gaps, and are difficult to use in fast-paced sequences or scenes of continuous dialogue. Haptic descriptions offer a promising augmentation to audio descriptions by conveying information through the sense of touch. This work presents audio-haptic descriptions with a user evaluation showing how haptic descriptions can add relevant information to films for improved comprehension.
AB - Narrations of visual content, or audio descriptions, enhance the accessibility of video media for individuals who are blind. While the adoption of this assistive technology continues to broaden, audio descriptions have several limitations: they often lack detail (i.e., are abridged) to fit within dialogue-free gaps, and are difficult to use in fast-paced sequences or scenes of continuous dialogue. Haptic descriptions offer a promising augmentation to audio descriptions by conveying information through the sense of touch. This work presents audio-haptic descriptions with a user evaluation showing how haptic descriptions can add relevant information to films for improved comprehension.
KW - Audio descriptions
KW - assistive
KW - haptics
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U2 - 10.1109/ICME.2013.6607554
DO - 10.1109/ICME.2013.6607554
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885600405
SN - 9781479900152
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
BT - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2013
Y2 - 15 July 2013 through 19 July 2013
ER -