REU Site: Accessible Information and Communications Technologies

无障碍信息和通信技术(AICT)网站上的本科生研究体验(REU)网站邀请了一群具有不同听觉能力(聋人、听力障碍或听力障碍)的学生参与以人为中心的研究体验，调查信息和通信技术(ICT)的无障碍。随着信息和通信技术变得越来越普遍，一个关键的挑战是通过培训具有不同听力能力的下一代人，为人们提供平等的用户体验，而不考虑他们的听力能力。这项计划将培养一批聋人、重听和听力障碍学生成为未来的ICT无障碍领导者。学生将学习无障碍ICT，参与从构思到演讲的研究过程，并加入将提供职业建议和指导的学者和实践者社区。REU项目将为研究人员和学生所在机构的其他合作者之间的新合作奠定基础。纳入具有不同听力能力的本科生和教职员工研究人员，提高了具有不同听力能力的用户对需求的范围和复杂性的认识，以及可能的ICT解决方案的范围。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site on Accessible Information and Communication Technology (AICT) site engages a group of students with diverse auditory abilities (deaf, hard of hearing or hearing) in human-centered research experiences that investigate accessibility of information and communications technologies (ICT). As ICT becomes more pervasive, a crucial challenge is to provide an equal user experience to people regardless of their auditory abilities, by training the next generation of people who have diverse auditory abilities. This program will train a cohort of deaf, hard of hearing and hearing student to be future ICT accessibility leaders.Students will learn about accessible ICT, engage in the research process from ideation to presentations, and join a community of scholars and practitioners who will provide career advice and mentorship. The REU projects will form the basis for new collaborations among the investigators and other collaborators at the students' home institutions. The inclusion of undergraduate and faculty/staff researchers who have diverse auditory abilities increases recognition of the range and complexity of needs by users with diverse auditory abilities and the range of possible ICT solutions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.