TY - GEN
T1 - DAVEE
T2 - 12th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, C and C 2019
AU - Paudyal, Prajwal
AU - Banerjee, Ayan
AU - Hu, Yijian
AU - Gupta, Sandeep
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was partly funded by NIH NIBIB (Grant EB019202) and ASU FSE Research Infrastructure Development Grant. We thank Alexis Ross for transcription and translation of the lecture video, Paul Quinn for his expert domain knowledge in ASL and Soukaina Lamrani for her invaluable input towards the design.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Authors.
PY - 2019/6/13
Y1 - 2019/6/13
N2 - The post-graduate enrollment statistic for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) in Science, Technology, Math and Engineering (STEM) fields is very low compared to the hearing population. This drastically reduces DHH representation in the Information Technology (IT) workforce or academic research. DHH students generally use sign language interpreters to understand lecture materials but technically qualified interpreters are rare. These days, traditional in-person classes are being replaced with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOCs improve access to materials, but hinder opportunities for collaboration which is vital for the DHH population. In this work, we propose DAVEE, a Virtual Reality (VR) classroom experience that facilitates live interpretation. During live sessions, DHH students can ask questions, receive feedback and have interactions with other students. The lectures and the interpretations can also be recorded for offline viewing.
AB - The post-graduate enrollment statistic for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) in Science, Technology, Math and Engineering (STEM) fields is very low compared to the hearing population. This drastically reduces DHH representation in the Information Technology (IT) workforce or academic research. DHH students generally use sign language interpreters to understand lecture materials but technically qualified interpreters are rare. These days, traditional in-person classes are being replaced with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOCs improve access to materials, but hinder opportunities for collaboration which is vital for the DHH population. In this work, we propose DAVEE, a Virtual Reality (VR) classroom experience that facilitates live interpretation. During live sessions, DHH students can ask questions, receive feedback and have interactions with other students. The lectures and the interpretations can also be recorded for offline viewing.
KW - Accessibility
KW - Education
KW - Sign language
KW - Virtual reality
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U2 - 10.1145/3325480.3326546
DO - 10.1145/3325480.3326546
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85068651267
T3 - C and C 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 Creativity and Cognition
SP - 522
EP - 526
BT - C and C 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 Creativity and Cognition
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 23 June 2019 through 26 June 2019
ER -