REU SITE: Accessible Multimodal Interfaces

无障碍多媒体界面REU网站计划为学生提供有关项目的研究经验，这些项目旨在通过浏览器或移动应用程序界面，为有感官障碍(聋人、听力障碍、失明或视力低下)的消费者增强多媒体内容的可访问性。他们将与有感官障碍的同龄人和导师合作。不同的团队为学生提供经验和知识，让他们认识到访问多媒体过程中可访问性挑战的范围和复杂性，并在独特的研究环境中评估提出的解决方案的有效性。在研究生阶段，特别是在STEM中，有感觉障碍的学生在学术机构中的比例极低。REU网站为研究生提供了急需的这些学生，并鼓励他们参加可访问计算机和计算机科学的本科生和研究生课程。REU学生团队学习识别、分析和解决多媒体内容界面未解决的可访问性挑战。他们还学习如何在包容性的研究环境中与不同的同行合作。他们将在设计和生产实用解决方案方面获得经验，这些解决方案可以增加多模式信息的可及性和可用性，特别是对于各地感官残疾的消费者。他们将学习通过研讨会培训和参加学院和机构会议来创造和传播他们的研究成果。AMIREU网站(http://avd.rit.edu/REU))提供了更多信息。

The Accessible Multimedia Interfaces REU site program provides students with research experiences on projects that enhance multimedia content accessibility through browser or mobile application interfaces for consumers who have sensory disabilities (deaf, hard of hearing, blind or low vision). They will collaborate with peers and mentors who have sensory disabilities. The diverse teams provide students with the experience and knowledge to recognize the range and complexity of accessibility challenges in accessing multimedia and to evaluate the efficacy of proposed solutions in a unique research environment. Students with sensory disabilities are extremely underrepresented in academics at the graduate level especially in STEM. The REU site creates a critically needed pipeline of these students for graduate school and encourages them to participate in undergraduate and graduate programs in accessible computing and computer science generally. The REU student teams learn to identify, analyze and address unsolved accessibility challenges to multimedia content interfaces. They also learn how to collaborate with diverse peers in an inclusive research environment. They will gain experience in designing and producing practical solutions that increase accessibility and usability of multimodal information, especially for consumers with sensory disabilities everywhere. They will learn to create and disseminate their research outcomes through seminar training and participation in college and institutional conferences. The AMI REU Site website (http://avd.rit.edu/REU) provides additional information.