REU Site: Accessible Information and Communication Technologies

本科生研究体验(REU)网站上的无障碍信息和通信技术(AICT)为本科生参与者提供了关于提高信息和通信技术可获得性的项目的研究经验，例如为聋人、重听人或聋盲消费者提供手机或流媒体视频(DHHDB)。参与者将与DHHDB的同行和导师就一个研究项目进行为期10周的合作。不同的团队为学生提供经验和知识，以认识到获取信息和通信技术方面的无障碍挑战的范围和复杂性，并在独特的研究环境中评估拟议解决方案的有效性。DHHDB的学生在研究生水平的学术研究中的代表性极低，特别是在科学、技术、经济和经济研究领域。AICT REU网站为研究生提供了急需的这些学生，并鼓励他们参加无障碍信息和通信技术的本科生和研究生课程。每个研究项目都解决了聋人、重听人或聋盲消费者在使用现有信息和通信技术方面尚未解决的无障碍挑战，本科研究人员可以轻松地理解、分析和解决这些挑战。纳入有听力障碍的本科生和教职员工研究人员，提高了信息和通信技术的可及性和可用性。研究项目的互动性和个人性为研究和实践之间提供了联系，并为参与者提供了多样化、包容性和协作性的研究体验。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。亚太信通技术培训中心网站(http://accessiblemultimedia.com))提供了更多信息。

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site on Accessible Information and Communication Technology (AICT) provides undergraduate participants with research experiences on projects that enhance accessibility of information and communication technologies, such as mobile phones or streaming videos for consumers who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind (DHHDB). The participants will collaborate with DHHDB peers and mentors on a research project for 10 weeks. The diverse teams provide students with the experience and knowledge to recognize the range and complexity of accessibility challenges in accessing information and communication technology and to evaluate the efficacy of proposed solutions in a unique research environment. DHHDB students are extremely underrepresented in academics at the graduate level especially in STEM. The AICT 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 information and communications technology.Each research project addresses unsolved accessibility challenges for deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind consumers in using existing information and communication technology that undergraduate researchers can easily understand, analyze and solve. The inclusion of undergraduate and faculty researchers who have aural disabilities increases accessibility and usability of information and communication technologies. The interactive and personal nature of the research projects provides a link between research and practice, and a diverse, inclusive and collaborative research experience for the participants. They will learn to create and disseminate their research outcomes through seminar training and participation in college and institutional conferences. The AICT REU Site website (http://accessiblemultimedia.com) provides additional information.