REU SITE: Accessible Multimodal Interfaces

无障碍多媒体接口REU网站项目为学生提供研究项目的经验，通过浏览器或移动应用程序界面增强多媒体内容的可访问性，为有感官障碍的消费者（耳聋、听力障碍、失明或弱视）。他们将与有感官障碍的同龄人和导师合作。多样化的团队为学生提供了经验和知识，以认识到访问多媒体的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。有感官障碍的学生在研究生阶段的学术研究中所占的比例非常低，尤其是在STEM领域。REU网站为这些学生进入研究生院提供了一个急需的渠道，并鼓励他们参加无障碍计算和计算机科学的本科和研究生课程。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。他们还学习如何在一个包容的研究环境中与不同的同行合作。他们将在设计和制作切实可行的解决方案方面获得经验，提高多模式信息的可及性和可用性，特别是对各地有感官障碍的消费者而言。他们将学习通过研讨会培训和参加大学和机构会议来创造和传播他们的研究成果。AMI REU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.