Reading-Assistance Tools Among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Computing Professionals in the U.S.: Their Reading Experiences, Interests and Perceptions of Social Accessibility
Reading-Assistance Tools Among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Computing Professionals in the U.S.: Their Reading Experiences, Interests and Perceptions of Social Accessibility
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10.1145/3520198
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2022-03
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Oliver Alonzo;L. Elliot;Becca Dingman;Sooyeon Lee;Akhter Al Amin;Matt Huenerfauth
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Oliver Alonzo;L. Elliot;Becca Dingman;Sooyeon Lee;Akhter Al Amin;Matt Huenerfauth
自动文本简化（ATS）软件旨在自动重写复杂的文本，使其更容易阅读。先前的研究探讨了使用安非他明类兴奋剂作为阅读辅助技术，确定了向不同用户群体提供这些技术的好处，包括聋人和听力困难的成年人。然而，很少有工作调查这一技术的特定群体的潜在用户的利益和要求。考虑到以前的工作建立计算专业人员经常需要阅读新技术，以保持当前在他们的职业，在这项研究中，我们调查了阅读的经验和利益的DHH个人的工作经验，在计算行业的ATS为基础的阅读辅助工具，以及他们的角度对这些工具的社会可及性。通过一项调查和两组访谈，我们发现，这些用户阅读相对频繁，特别是在支持他们的工作，并有兴趣的工具，以帮助他们与复杂的文本，但从公众使用这些工具所产生的误解可能会与参与者的理想形象在专业背景下发生冲突。这种经验的贡献激励进一步研究ATS为基础的阅读辅助工具，为这些用户，优先考虑的阅读活动的用户最感兴趣的是看到这种技术的应用，并强调设计考虑为DHH成人创建ATS工具，包括考虑社会可及性。
Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) software aims at automatically rewrite complex text to make it simpler to read. Prior research has explored the use of ATS as a reading assistance technology, identifying benefits from providing these technologies to different groups of users, including Deaf and Hard-of-hearing (DHH) adults. However, little work has investigated the interests and requirements of specific groups of potential users of this technology. Considering prior work establishing that computing professionals often need to read about new technologies in order to stay current in their profession, in this study, we investigated the reading experiences and interests of DHH individuals with work experience in the computing industry in ATS-based reading assistance tools, as well as their perspective on the social accessibility of those tools. Through a survey and two sets of interviews, we found that these users read relatively often, especially in support of their work, and were interested in tools to assist them with complicated texts; but misperceptions arising from public use of these tools may conflict with participants’ desired image in a professional context. This empirical contribution motivates further research into ATS-based reading assistance tools for these users, prioritizing which reading activities users are most interested in seeing the application of this technology, and highlighting design considerations for creating ATS tools for DHH adults, including considerations for social accessibility.