EnACT: A Software Tool for Creating Animated Text Captions

Authors:
Quoc V. Vy;Jorge A. Mori;David W. Fourney;Deborah I. Fels
Affiliations:
Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada M5B 2K3;Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada M5B 2K3;Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada M5B 2K3;Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada M5B 2K3
Venue:
ICCHP '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Music in captioning is often represented by only its title and/or a music note. This representation provides little to no information of the intended effect or emotion of the music. In this paper, we present a software tool that was created to enable users to mark emotions in a script or lyrics and then render those marks into animated text for display as captions. A pilot study was conducted to collect initial responses to, preferences and understanding of the animated lyrics of one song by a deaf and hard of hearing audience. Participants were able to identify the animated lyrics as belonging to a song and found that the animations helped them understand the portrayed emotions. They also identified the shaking style of animation portraying fear as least preferable.